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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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Merck's Pediatric Filings for Dificid Get FDA's Priority Review

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

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Merck Sees Hammer Chart Pattern: Time to Buy?

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Merck (MRK) Stock Moves -0.68%: What You Should Know

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Seattle Genetics Up on Positive Data From Bladder Cancer Study

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AstraZeneca/Merck's Lynparza Positive in Prostate Cancer Study

AstraZeneca's (AZN) Lynparza doubled the time without radiographic disease progression in a study evaluating in an advanced prostate cancer patient population.

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Glaxo's Zejula Betters PFS in First-Line Ovarian Cancer Study

Glaxo's (GSK) phase III study evaluating Zejula as a first-line maintenance therapy in patients with ovarian cancer significantly reduces risk of disease progression or death by 38%.

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AstraZeneca/Merck's Lynparza Improves PFS in Frontline Study

AstraZeneca's (AZN) Lynparza reduces the risk of disease progression by 41% in a study, evaluating the PARP inhibitor as a first-line maintenance treatment in women with advanced ovarian cancer.

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