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Merck & Co. (MRK)

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$79.81 USD

79.81
1,635,600

-0.88 (-1.09%)

Updated Aug 11, 2025 11:12 AM 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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Moderna (MRNA) to Report Q4 Earnings: What's in the Cards?

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Roche's Tecentriq sBLA for Lung Cancer Gets Priority Review

Roche (RHHBY) gets FDA's priority review status for a sBLA for Tecentriq monotherapy in first-line treatment of certain people with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

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Powerful Proof Anyone Can Invest for an Early Retirement - February 20, 2020

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NewLink (NLNK) to Report Q4 Earnings: What's in the Cards?

Investors are looking forward to updates on NewLink's (NLNK) merger with Lumos Pharma, when the former releases fourth-quarter 2019 results.

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AstraZeneca's (AZN) Q4 Earnings and Sales Miss Estimates

AstraZeneca (AZN) misses estimates for earnings and sales. However, new drugs, mainly cancer medicines, continue to drive product sales higher.

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Pharma Stock Roundup: ABBV, AGN Post Q4 Results, Another Alzheimer's Study Fails

AbbVie (ABBV) and Allergan (AGN) announce Q4 results.

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Bristol-Myers' (BMY) CAR T Cell Therapy Gets Priority Review

Bristol-Myers' (BMY) BLA for lisocabtagene maraleucel gets Priority Review from the FDA.

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Merck's Keytruda Meets PFS Endpoint in Breast Cancer Study

Merck's (MRK) immuno-oncology drug, Keytruda, significantly improves progression free survival as first-line treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer patients in a pivotal study.

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Signs That Your Trading Will Ruin Your Retirement - February 12, 2020

Achieving your retirement goals takes a much different investing approach than regular stock trading, from smartly managing risk to keeping emotions in check.

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Top Stock Analyst Reports for Merck, Philip Morris & American Tower

Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Merck (MRK), Philip Morris International (PM) and American Tower (AMT).

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Powerful Proof Anyone Can Invest for an Early Retirement - February 11, 2020

Achieving the financial freedom to retire early is a dream for most, but making that dream a reality isn't as tricky as it sounds. If you are willing to make some serious lifestyle changes and sacrifices, it can be possible.

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Incyte's (INCY) Capmatinib NDA Gets Priority Review From FDA

The FDA accepts Incyte's (INCY) NDA for capmatinib and grants Priority Review.

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What's in Store for AstraZeneca (AZN) This Earnings Season?

AstraZeneca's (AZN) fourth-quarter results are expected to reflect the impact of new drug sales.

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Seattle Genetics (SGEN) Q4 Earnings Top, Adcetris Drives Sales

Seattle Genetics (SGEN) rides high on Q4 earnings and revenue beat.

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Pharma Stock Roundup: BMY, GSK, SNY Q4 Results, MRK Earnings & Split

Merck (MRK), Bristol Myers (BMY), Sanofi (SNY), Glaxo (GSK) and Novo Nordisk (NVO) announce Q4 results.

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Bristol-Myers' (BMY) Q4 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates

Bristol-Myers (BMY) beats both earnings and sales estimates in the fourth quarter, primarily on robust sales of Eliquis and acquisition of Celgene.

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Why Merck (MRK) is a Great Dividend Stock Right Now

Dividends are one of the best benefits to being a shareholder, but finding a great dividend stock is no easy task. Does Merck (MRK) have what it takes? Let's find out.

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Strong Private Sector Payrolls in January

Strong Private Sector Payrolls in January.

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ADP Posts Blowout +291K New Jobs for January

Monthly private-sector payrolls from Automatic Data Processing (ADP) for January posted their highest level this morning since May 2015, to a whopping 291K new private-sector jobs having been created.

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Merck (MRK) Beats on Q4 Earnings, Plans Women Health Spin Off

Merck (MRK) beats estimates for earnings but misses the same for sales in fourth-quarter 2019. The company plans to spin off Women Health drugs/biosimilars into new company. Shares down.

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Should You Buy Merck (MRK) Ahead of Earnings?

Merck (MRK) is seeing favorable earnings estimate revision activity and has a positive Zacks Earnings ESP heading into earnings.

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Merck's Recarbrio Gets FDA Priority Review for New Indication

The FDA accepts Merck's (MRK) sNDA for antibacterial injection Recarbrio and grants priority review.

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Will Opdivo & Eliquis Drive Bristol-Myers (BMY) Q4 Earnings?

Investors will focus on the performance of Opdivo, Revlimid and Eliquis along with the regular top and bottom-line numbers when Bristol-Myers (BMY) reports fourth-quarter results.