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Merck & Co. (MRK)

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$79.95 USD

79.95
3,603,327

-0.74 (-0.92%)

Updated Aug 11, 2025 02:10 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy23.75%
2Buy17.82%
3Hold9.58%
4Sell5.28%
5Strong Sell2.61%
S&P50011.30%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

  • Value Score A
  • Growth Score A
  • Momentum Score A
  • VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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A Value F Growth F Momentum D VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 28% (68 out of 244)

Industry: Large Cap Pharmaceuticals

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Merck (MRK) Shares Looking Ripe For A Buy

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Analysts are estimating the vaccine could boost Merck's topline by anywhere between $2 to $5 billion

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Pharma Stock Roundup: MRK, RHHBY Give Coronavirus Updates,SNY to Sell Stake in REGN

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Why Is Merck (MRK) Down 4% Since Last Earnings Report?

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The three major indexes closed in the green on Tuesday, as investors remained hopeful about coronavirus vaccine and that economies around the globe were recovering from the pandemic-driven lockdown over the past few months.

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Race for Coronavirus Vaccine Heats Up: Biotech ETFs to Gain

The COVID-19 pandemic has kept biotech players all over the world on their toes for a vaccine. This new opportunity has made the sector the most attractive one to investors.

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Merck Inks 3 Deals for Coronavirus Anti-infective & Vaccines

Merck (MRK) to buy Themis, which is making a COVID-19 vaccine. It is also buying global rights to a private biotech's antiviral candidate, EIDD-2801, which is in early clinical studies to treat COVID-19.

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The blue-chip index's northbound journey began on Mar 24 and is continuing barring occasional fluctuations.

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Roche Acquires Stratos Genomics, Presents Data on NMOSD Drug

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Pharma Stock Roundup: FDA Ok's Cancer Drugs for New Use, JNJ Stops US Baby Powder Sales

FDA approves line extensions for Bristol-Myers (BMY), Roche (RHHBY) and AstraZeneca (AZN)/Merck's (MRK) drugs. J&J stops sales of talc-based baby powders in the United States and Canada.

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AstraZeneca/Merck's Lynparza Get FDA Nod for Prostate Cancer

FDA approves AstraZeneca (AZN)/Merck's (MRK) PARP inhibitor Lynparza for HRR gene-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The approval was based on data from the phase III PROfound study.

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Roche (RHHBY) gets FDA approval for the label expansion of Tecentriq into metastatic NSCLC as a first-line monotherapy.

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Are You Looking for a High-Growth Dividend Stock? Merck (MRK) Could Be a Great Choice

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Bristol-Myers (BMY) Opdivo in combination with Yervoy gets FDA nod for the first-line treatment of NSCLC patients.

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Merck's (MRK) Keytruda Successful in Several Cancer Studies

Merck (MRK) announces positive data from several cancer studies evaluating Keytruda across multiple indications.