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Merck & Co. (MRK)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$80.69 USD

80.69
6,882,688

+0.32 (0.40%)

Updated Aug 8, 2025 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $80.95 +0.26 (0.32%) 7:58 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

Zacks News

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Pharma Stock Roundup: MRK, SNY to Buy Cancer Firms, LLY Starts New Lung Cancer Study

This week two deals grab headlines in the pharma space. Merck (MRK) offers to buy ArQule for $2.7 billion while Sanofi (SNY) signs a definitive deal to purchase Synthorx for $2.5 billion

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AstraZeneca's Imfinzi Gets China Nod for Stage III NSCLC

AstraZeneca's (AZN) Imfinzi becomes the first immunotherapy to receive approval in China for treating unresectable, stage III NSCLC, which has not progressed following chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

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Sanofi, Regeneron to Amend Agreement for Kevzara & Praulent

Sanofi (SNY) intends to amend its antibody collaboration with Regeneron related to Kevzara and Praulent into a royalty-based agreement. Agreement terms for Dupixent to remain intact.

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Roche's (RHHBY) sBLA for Asthma Drug Xolair Accepted by FDA

The FDA accepts Roche's (RHHBY) allergic asthma drug Xolair's sBLA for the treatment of nasal polyps in adult patients aged 18 years or above with inadequate response to intranasal corticosteroids.

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Sanofi (SNY) Looks Good: Stock Adds 6.2% in Session

Sanofi (SNY) saw a big move last session, as its shares jumped more than 6% on the day, amid huge volumes.

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increasing M&A deals and cutting edge therapies are driving biotech ETFs higher

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Biotech ETFs Hit New Highs on Deal Activities

Following the new deals in the healthcare space, a few biotech ETFs hit new highs.

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Pharma M&As Continue, Merck, Sanofi to Buy Cancer Drug Firms

Merck offers to buy ArQule for $2.7 billion while Sanofi signs a definitive deal to purchase Synthorx for $2.5 billion.

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Week Begins with Biotech Mergers

Week Begins with Biotech Mergers

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Merger Monday, Biotech Edition: MRK, SNY, ARQL, THOR & More

Large-cap pharmaceutical companies are putting their assets to work in the biotech space, particularly in cancer treatment (oncology).

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Bristol-Myers' (BMY) Lymphoma Drug Meets Goals in Key Study

Bristol-Myers' (BMY) TRANSCEND NHL 001 study on CAR T-cell therapy drug meets endpoints.

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Amgen Gets FDA Approval for J&J/Merck's Remicade Biosimilar

FDA gives nod to Amgen's (AMGN) Avsola (ABP 710), a biosimilar of J&J's blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis drug, Remicade.

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Pharma Stock Roundup: FDA Updates for RHHBY, AZN, MRK, No Asbestos in Talc Says JNJ

The FDA approves Roche's (RHHBY) Tecentriq for expanded use. It grants priority review status to AstraZeneca (AZN) & Merck's (MRK) supplemental applications.

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AstraZeneca's Lynparza Gets China Nod in First-Line Setting

AstraZeneca's (AZN) Lynparza receives approval in China for first-line maintenance treatment of advanced ovarian cancer with BRCA-mutation.

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Bristol-Myers' Orencia Gets Breakthrough Therapy Tag for GvHD

The FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy designation to Bristol-Myers Squibb's (BMY) Orencia for the prevention of moderate-to-severe acute GvHD in hematopoietic SCT from unrelated donors.

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J&J Stock Witnesses Volatility in '19: What to Expect in 2020

Here we discuss the ups and downs of J&J's (JNJ) stock this year.

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Bristol-Myers' Reblozyl to be Reviewed by FDA Committee

Bristol-Myers (BMY) and Acceleron Pharma Inc.'s sBLA for Reblozyl in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes will be reviewed by the FDA's Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee.

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Biotech Stock Roundup: Pipeline Updates From BIIB, AXSM, CARA, Collaborations & More

Key highlights of the past week include regulatory and pipeline updates along with collaboration deals.

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Roche's Tecentriq-Chemo Combo Gets FDA Nod in First-Line NSCLC

Roche (RHHBY) obtains FDA approval for Tecentriq in combination with chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adults with metastatic NSCLC.

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Pfizer/Astellas Xtandi Gets Nod in China for Prostate Cancer (Revised)

Pfizer (PFE)/Astellas' Xtandi gets approval in China to treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).

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Seattle Genetics, Astellas Tie Up With Merck for Cancer Study

Seattle Genetics (SGEN) and Astellas team up with Merck for a late-stage study to evaluate the enfortumab vedotin and Keytruda combo in patients with previously untreated metastatic urothelial cancer.

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Merck's Keytruda Gets FDA's Priority Tag in Bladder Cancer

Merck's (MRK) sBLA for Keytruda gets FDA's priority review status to treat certain patients with high-risk, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

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Large-Cap Pharmaceuticals Industry Prospects Bright for 2020

The Zacks Large Cap Pharmaceuticals industry ranks in the top 13% of more than 250 Zacks industries.

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AstraZeneca's (AZN) Imfinzi Gets FDA Priority Tag for SCLC

AstraZeneca's (AZN) Imfinzi, if approved for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, can cater to a broader lung cancer patient population, which can bring in additional sales.

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