Merck Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of MRK?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	1,016,465	0.0402%
State or Government	2,692,786	0.106%
General Public	532,117,599	21%
Institutions	1,993,808,795	78.8%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 45.32% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.88%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	249,803,915	AR$25.0t	2.1%	0.36%
8.38%	BlackRock, Inc.	212,059,737	AR$21.3t	2.3%	0.34%
4.71%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	119,026,412	AR$11.9t	1.31%	0.44%
3%	Wellington Management Group LLP	75,809,383	AR$7.6t	4.59%	1.19%
2.34%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	59,155,004	AR$5.9t	3.74%	0.41%
1.79%	FMR LLC	45,228,903	AR$4.5t	-2.48%	0.26%
1.34%	Norges Bank Investment Management	33,806,976	AR$3.4t	0%	0.27%
1.31%	UBS Asset Management AG	33,062,363	AR$3.3t	3.48%	0.32%
1.07%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	26,973,546	AR$2.7t	11.8%	0.31%
1.06%	Northern Trust Global Investments	26,865,365	AR$2.7t	0.17%	0.41%
0.94%	Capital Research and Management Company	23,828,511	AR$2.4t	0.16%	0.11%
0.93%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	23,554,443	AR$2.4t	0.55%	0.42%
0.89%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	22,472,076	AR$2.3t	-9.11%	0.19%
0.74%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	18,817,929	AR$1.9t	2.79%	0.31%
0.74%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	18,631,635	AR$1.9t	-5.06%	0.52%
0.72%	BNY Asset Management	18,207,088	AR$1.8t	-2.7%	0.35%
0.68%	Bank of America Corporation, Asset Management Arm	17,238,862	AR$1.7t	1.04%	0.5%
0.68%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	17,165,185	AR$1.7t	3.25%	0.38%
0.67%	Eaton Vance Management	16,906,429	AR$1.7t	-4.15%	0.39%
0.64%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	16,256,040	AR$1.6t	21.9%	0.33%
0.63%	JP Morgan Asset Management	15,955,678	AR$1.6t	-4.46%	0.18%
0.58%	Fisher Asset Management, LLC	14,653,435	AR$1.5t	2.72%	0.59%
0.57%	Managed Account Advisors LLC	14,404,871	AR$1.4t	-2.36%	0.29%
0.55%	State Farm Insurance Companies, Asset Management Arm	13,794,969	AR$1.4t	0%	1.22%
0.51%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	12,781,634	AR$1.3t	-2.94%	0.31%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/22 16:39
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/20 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Merck & Co., Inc. is covered by 61 analysts. 26 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
David Toung	Argus Research Company
Fabrizio Spagna	Axia Financial Research
Ishan Majumdar	Baptista Research