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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Merck
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$23.31
52 Week High	US$26.05
52 Week Low	US$15.00
Beta	0.20
1 Month Change	-5.05%
3 Month Change	-7.06%
1 Year Change	50.39%
3 Year Change	-4.27%
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	45.69%

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Shareholder Returns

	MRKD	AR Pharmaceuticals	AR Market
7D	1.1%	-1.1%	-2.8%
1Y	50.4%	19.5%	23.4%

Return vs Industry: MRKD exceeded the AR Pharmaceuticals industry which returned 19.9% over the past year.

Return vs Market: MRKD exceeded the AR Market which returned 31.9% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is MRKD's price volatile compared to industry and market?
MRKD volatility
MRKD Average Weekly Movement	4.3%
Pharmaceuticals Industry Average Movement	6.5%
Market Average Movement	5.9%
10% most volatile stocks in AR Market	8.1%
10% least volatile stocks in AR Market	4.0%

Stable Share Price: MRKD has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months compared to the AR market.

Volatility Over Time: MRKD's weekly volatility (4%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1891	74,000	Rob Davis	www.merck.com

Merck & Co., Inc. operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It offers human health pharmaceutical for various areas under the Keytruda, Keytruda Qlex, Welireg, Gardasil, ProQuad, M-M-R II, Varivax, Vaxneuvance, Capvaxive, RotaTeq, Pneumovax 23, Bridion, Prevymis, Dificid, Zerbaxa, Winrevair, Adempas/ Verquvo, Ohtuvayre, Lagevrio, Isentress/Isentress HD, Delstrigo, Pifeltro, Belsomra, Januvia, and Janumet brands. The company also provides veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines and health management solutions and services, such as livestock products under the Nuflor, Bovilis/Vista, Bovilis Cryptium, Banamine, Estrumate, Matrix, Resflor, Zuprevo, Revalor, Safe-Guard, M+Pac, Porcilis, Circumvent, Nobilis/Innovax, Paracox and Coccivac, Exzolt, Slice, Imvixa, Clynav, Aquavac/Norvax, Aquaflor, Flexolt brands; Allflex Livestock Intelligence solutions; and companion animal products under the Bravecto One-Month, Bravecto Injectable/Quantum, Bravecto TriUNO, Bravecto Plus, Sentinel Spectrum, Sentinel Flavor Tabs, Numelvi, Optimmune, Nobivac NXT, GilvetMab, Otomax, Mometamax, Mometamax Ultra, Posatex, Caninsulin/Vetsulin, Panacur, Safeguard, Regumate, Prestige, Scalibor/Exspot, Sure Petcare, and Home Again brands.

Merck & Co., Inc. Fundamentals Summary

How do Merck's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
MRKD fundamental statistics
Market cap	US$280.47b
Earnings (TTM)	US$8.94b
Revenue (TTM)	US$65.77b

31.0x

P/E Ratio

4.2x

P/S Ratio

Is MRKD overvalued?

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
MRKD income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$65.77b
Cost of Revenue	US$15.31b
Gross Profit	US$50.46b
Other Expenses	US$41.53b
Earnings	US$8.94b

Last Reported Earnings

Mar 31, 2026

Next Earnings Date

Aug 04, 2026

Earnings per share (EPS)	3.62
Gross Margin	76.73%
Net Profit Margin	13.59%
Debt/Equity Ratio	106.9%

How did MRKD perform over the long term?

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Dividends

3.0%

Current Dividend Yield

91%

Payout Ratio

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/05/07 09:37
End of Day Share Price	2026/05/07 00:00
Earnings	2026/03/31
Annual Earnings	2025/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

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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Industry and Sector Metrics

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Analyst Sources

Merck & Co., Inc. is covered by 50 analysts. 7 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
Emily Field	Barclays
Charles Butler	Barclays

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Recent News & Updates

Merck & Co., Inc. Updates Earnings Guidance for the Full Year 2026

Merck and Eisai Enter Announces FDA Approves Merck’S Once-Daily Idvynso (Doravirine/Islatravir)

Merck Announces FDA Grants Priority Review For Keytruda And Keytruda Qlex Each With Padcev For Cisplatin-Eligible Patients With Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

Merck Announces European Commission Approval For Enflonsia (Clesrovimab) For Prevention Of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Lower Respiratory Tract Disease In Infants

Daiichi Sankyo And Merck Receive Priority Review For Ifinatamab Deruxtecan In Previously Treated Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

Merck & Co., Inc., Annual General Meeting, May 26, 2026

Recent updates

Merck & Co., Inc. Updates Earnings Guidance for the Full Year 2026

Merck and Eisai Enter Announces FDA Approves Merck’S Once-Daily Idvynso (Doravirine/Islatravir)

Merck Announces FDA Grants Priority Review For Keytruda And Keytruda Qlex Each With Padcev For Cisplatin-Eligible Patients With Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

Merck Announces European Commission Approval For Enflonsia (Clesrovimab) For Prevention Of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Lower Respiratory Tract Disease In Infants

Daiichi Sankyo And Merck Receive Priority Review For Ifinatamab Deruxtecan In Previously Treated Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

Merck & Co., Inc., Annual General Meeting, May 26, 2026

Merck Announces Initiation of Pivotal Phase 2B/3 Trial Evaluating Mk-8748 for Treatment of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Merck Announces Results for Enlicitide Decanoate, an Investigational Oral Pcsk9 Inhibitor

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces Positive Data from Phase 2 CADENCE Trial Provides Definitive Proof-of-Concept for WINREVAIR™ (sotatercept-csrk) in Adults With the Syndrome of Combined Post- and Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Merck Reportedly Nears $6 Billion Deal to Buy Terns Pharma

Merck Presents New Data Reinforcing Long-Term Efficacy of Gardasil 9 and Gardasil At Eurogin International Multidisciplinary HPV Congress 2026

Merck Announces the Presentation of Results from the Pivotal Phase 3 Litespark-022 Trial Evaluating Keytruda

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces KEYTRUDA®? (Pembrolizumab) Plus Padcev®? (enfortumab Vedotin-Ejfv) Reduced Risk of Event-Free Survival Events by 47% and Risk of Death by 35% for Cisplatin-Ejfv

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces Late-Breaking Data from Three Phase 3 Trials Evaluating Doravirine/Islatravir (DOR/ISL) an Investigational, Once-Daily, Two-Drug Regimen for the Treatment of Adults Living with HIV-1 at CROI 2026

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces Executive Appointments and Organizational Changes in Human Health Business

Merck Announces Positive New Data for ENFLONSIA (Caresrovimab) for Infants and Children Under 2 Years of Age At Increased Risk for Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease over Two RSV Seasons

Merck announces Health Canada Approves KEYTRUDA SC™, a Subcutaneous Formulation of Pembrolizumab Across Multiple Cancer Indications

Merck Advances Treatment of Bladder and Kidney Cancers with New Data At 2026 ASCO GU Cancers Symposium

Merck Announces the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves KEYTRUDA (Pembrolizumab and Berahyaluronidase Alfa-Pmph) and KEYTRUDA QLEX

Merck Announces Health Canada Approval of ENFLONSIA for the Prevention of RSV in Newborns and Infants

Merck & Co., Inc. Provides Earnings Guidance for the Full Year 2026

Merck Declares Dividend on Common Stock for the Second-Quarter of 2026, Payable on April 7, 2026

MSD Reportedly Ends Takeover Talks with Revolution Medicines

Merck Reportedly in Talks to Buy Revolution in Up to $32 Billion Deal

Merck Initiates Phase 3 KANDLELIT-007 Trial Evaluating Calderasib in Combination with KEYTRUDA QLEX (Pembrolizumab and Berahyaluronidase Alfa-Pmph) in Certain Patients with Advanced NSCLC

Merck Reaches Agreement with U.S. Government to Expand Access to Medicines and Lower Costs for Americans

Merck Announces KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Plus Padcev® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) Significantly Improved Event-Free Survival, Overall Survival and Pathologic Complete Response Rates for Cisplatin-Eligible Patients with MIBC When Given Before and After Surgery

Merck Receives Positive EU Chmp Opinion for Expanded Use of Winrevair™? (Sotatercept) in Adults with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (Pah, Who* Group 1 Pulmonary Hypertension)

Merck Showcases Data for Alzheimer's Disease Candidates MK-2214 and MK-1167 at CTAD 2025

FDA Approves Merck and KEYTRUDA (Pembrolizumab) and KEYTRUDA QLEX (Pembrolizumab and Berahyaluronidase Alfa-Pmph

Merck Announces Positive Topline Results from the Pivotal Phase 3 Trial Evaluating Investigational, Once-Daily, Oral, Two-Drug, Single-Tablet Regimen of Doravir (Dor/Isl) in Treatment-1 Infection

Merck Declares Dividend for the First Quarter of 2026, Payable on January 8, 2026

Merck Reportedly Close on A Deal to Buy Cidara

Merck's Enlicitide Decanoate, an Investigational Oral PCSK9 Inhibitor, Significantly ReducedDL-C in Adults with Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Phase 3 CORALreef HeFH Trial

Merck's Enlicitide Decanoate, an Investigational Oral PCSK9 Inhibitor, Significantly ReducedDL-C in Phase 3 CORALreef Lipids Trial

Merck & Co., Inc. Updates Earnings Guidance for the Year 2025

European Commission Approves KEYTRUDA® (Pembrolizumab) as Part of a Treatment Regimen for Adults with Resectable Locally Advanced Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (LA-HNSCC) Expressing PD-L1 (CPS >1)

Merck Announces Positive Topline Results from the Phase 3 LITESPARK-022 Trial in Patients with Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Merck & Co., Inc. Receives FDA Approval For Updated Indication Of WINREVAIR In Adults With PAH

Merck to Present New Data from Its Innovative Cardio-Pulmonary Pipeline and Portfolio At AHA Scientific Sessions 2025

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces the Presentation of Findings from Systematic Review of Studies on the Ep Epiiology and Antimicrobial Resistance of Pneumococcal Serotypes Covered by CapvaXIVE

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces New Long-Term Data Highlighting the Sustained Survival Benefits of Keytruda® (Pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 Therapy, in Treating Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC )

Daiichi Sankyo and Merck Demonstrate Clinically Meaningful Response Rates for Raludotatug Deruxtecan in Patients with Recurrent Platinum-Resistant Ovarian, Primary Peritoneal or Fallopian Tube Cancer

Merck and Eisai Announces Long-Term Follow-Up Data Continued to Show Durable Benefit of KEYTRUDA®? (Pembrolizumab) Plus LENVIMA®? (lenvatinib)

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces Phase 3 KEYNOTE-B96 Trial Met Secondary Endpoint of Overall Survival (OS) in All Comers Population of Patients with Platinum-Resistant Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

Merck Announces New Data from Phase 3 Trials Evaluating the Investigational, Once-Daily, Oral, Two-Drug Regimen of Doravir/Islatravir (DOR/ISL) in Adults with Virologically Suppressed HIV-1 Infection

Merck Advances Oncology Innovation, Highlighting Progress in New Tumor Types and Early Stages of Disease At ESMO 2025

Merck Expands Tulisokibart Clinical Development Program with Initiation of Phase 2B Trials in Three Additional Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases

Merck Announces Positive Results from the Phase 3 HYPERION Trial Evaluating Winrevair

FDA Approves Merck’s KEYTRUDA QLEX (pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa-pmph) Injection for Subcutaneous Use in Adults Across Most Solid Tumor Indications for KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab)

Merck Receives Two Positive EU CHMP Opinions for KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab), for Subcutaneous (SC) Administration and for New Indication for Earlier-Stage Head and Neck Cancer

Daiichi Sankyo and Merck Announce Raludotatug Deruxtecan Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation by U.S. FDA for Patients with CDH6 Expressing Platinum-Resistant Ovarian, Primary Peritoneal or Fallopian Tube Cancers Previously Treated with Bevacizumab

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces Positive Results from the Phase 3 STRIDE-13 Trial Evaluating CapvaXIVE

Ifinatamab Deruxtecan Demonstrated Clinically Meaningful Response Rates in Patients with Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer in Ideate-Lung01 Phase 2 Trial

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces Positive Topline Results from the Phase 3 CORALreef Lipids Trial Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Enlicitide Decanoate

Merck's First Patient Dosed in the HERTHENA-Breast04 Phase 3 Trial of Patritumab Deruxtecan Initiated in Patients with Metastatic Hormone Receptor

Merck Demonstrates Ongoing Commitment to Advancing Cardiovascular Disease Management and Patient Care with New Data at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2025

Daiichi Sankyo and Merck Announce U.S. Food and Drug Administration Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Patients with Pretreated Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

Health Canada Approves KEYTRUDA for Patients with Resectable Locally Advanced Head & Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tumours That Are PD-L1 (CPS) Positive as Neoadjuvant Treatment, Continued as Adjuvant Treatment Combined with Radiotherapy with or Without Cisplatin Then as Monotherapy

Merck Announces Positive Topline Results from the Phase 3 KEYTRUDA Trial in Patients with Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

Merck & Co., Inc. Updates Sales Guidance for the Year 2025

Merck Declares Fourth-Quarter 2025 Dividend, Payable on October 7, 2025