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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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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: LHC, Retrophin, Dermira and Merck & Co

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Top Analyst Reports for Mastercard, UnitedHealth & Merck

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Nektar (NKTR) Q3 Earnings & Revenues Top Estimates, Stock Up

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Esperion (ESPR) Reports Wider-Than-Expected Loss in Q3

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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers and Glaxo

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Dr. Reddy's (RDY) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Increase Y/Y

Dr. Reddy's (RDY) earnings and revenues increase year over year in second-quarter fiscal 2020.

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Novo Nordisk (NVO) Q3 Earnings Beat Estimates, Revenues Miss

Novo Nordisk (NVO) beats earnings estimates but misses sales estimates in the third quarter of 2019.

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Pharma Stock Roundup: MRK, PFE, GSK, BMY Q3 Earnings, Other Updates

Pfizer (PFE), Merck (MRK), Bristol-Myers (BMY) and others release Q3 results.

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Medicines Company (MDCO) Incurs Wider-Than-Expected Q3 Loss

The Medicines Company (MDCO) misses earnings estimates in Q3. The company is progressing well with its sole pipeline candidate, inclisiran.

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Exelixis (EXEL) Q3 Earnings Beat on Strong Cabometyx Sales

Exelixis (EXEL) reports solid third-quarter 2019 results as Cabometyx maintains momentum.

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Seattle Genetics (SGEN) Q3 Loss Widens, Revenues Top Mark

Seattle Genetics (SGEN) incurs wider-than-expected loss in third-quarter 2019 but rides high on revenue beat.

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Stock Market News For Oct 30, 2019

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Healthcare ETFs Win in October: Here's Why

The healthcare sector, which has been the second-worst performer among the 11 major S&P 500 sectors this year, took the center stage this month with some outperformance compared to other sectors.

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Will Opdivo & Eliquis Drive Bristol-Myers (BMY) Q3 Earnings?

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Strong Q3 Earnings Data Deluge

Strong Q3 Earnings Data Deluge

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Merck (MRK) Beats on Q3 Earnings & Sales, Raises '19 View

Merck (MRK) beats estimates for earnings as well as sales in third-quarter 2019. Blockbuster cancer drug, Keytruda continues its robust performance on strong demand. Shares up.

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GM fought through strike headwinds to beat estimates, Merck's cancer drug performs great, and Pfizer and Mastercard beat, too.

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Merck (MRK) Q3 Earnings and Revenues Surpass Estimates (Revised)

Merck (MRK) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 20.80% and 5.96%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2019. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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Merck (MRK) Tops Q3 Earnings Estimates

Merck (MRK) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 20.80% and -99.89%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2019. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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Factors Setting the Tone for Bristol-Myers (BMY) Q3 Earnings

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