MRK Stock Overview

Operates as a healthcare company worldwide. More details

MRK fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	5/6
Future Growth	4/6
Past Performance	5/6
Financial Health	4/6
Dividends	4/6

Rewards

Trading at 53.9% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings are forecast to grow 15.98% per year

Earnings grew by 163.6% over the past year

Analysts in good agreement that stock price will rise by 29.9%

Risk Analysis

Large one-off items impacting financial results

Has a high level of debt

My Notes

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Merck & Co., Inc. Competitors

AstraZeneca

LSE:AZN

UK£162.9b

Roche Holding

SWX:ROG

CHF 207.0b

Novartis

SWX:NOVN

CHF 177.4b

Johnson & Johnson

NYSE:JNJ

US$346.3b

Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Merck
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$102.80
52 Week High	US$131.67
52 Week Low	US$102.80
Beta	0.40
1 Month Change	-0.21%
3 Month Change	-9.51%
1 Year Change	1.78%
3 Year Change	40.25%
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	82.59%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	MRK	PE Pharmaceuticals	PE Market
7D	0%	-3.9%	0.1%
1Y	1.8%	-27.3%	0.5%

Return vs Industry: MRK exceeded the PE Pharmaceuticals industry which returned -27.3% over the past year.

Return vs Market: MRK exceeded the PE Market which returned 0.5% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is MRK's price volatile compared to industry and market?
MRK volatility
MRK Average Weekly Movement	2.1%
Pharmaceuticals Industry Average Movement	6.6%
Market Average Movement	2.7%
10% most volatile stocks in PE Market	6.0%
10% least volatile stocks in PE Market	1.0%

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

Volatility Over Time: MRK's weekly volatility (2%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1891	71,000	Rob Davis	www.merck.com

Merck & Co., Inc. operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Pharmaceutical and Animal Health. The Pharmaceutical segment offers human health pharmaceutical products in the areas of oncology, hospital acute care, immunology, neuroscience, virology, cardiovascular, and diabetes under the Keytruda, Bridion, Adempas, Lagevrio, Belsomra, Simponi, and Januvia brands, as well as vaccine products consisting of preventive pediatric, adolescent, and adult vaccines under the Gardasil/Gardasil 9, ProQuad, M-M-R II, Varivax, RotaTeq, Live Oral, Vaxneuvance, Pneumovax 23, and Vaqta names.

Merck & Co., Inc. Fundamentals Summary

How do Merck's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
MRK fundamental statistics
Market cap	US$253.12b
Earnings (TTM)	US$12.15b
Revenue (TTM)	US$63.17b

20.8x

P/E Ratio

4.0x

P/S Ratio

Is MRK overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
MRK income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$63.17b
Cost of Revenue	US$14.79b
Gross Profit	US$48.39b
Other Expenses	US$36.24b
Earnings	US$12.15b

Last Reported Earnings

Sep 30, 2024

Next Earnings Date

Feb 04, 2025

Earnings per share (EPS)	4.80
Gross Margin	76.59%
Net Profit Margin	19.23%
Debt/Equity Ratio	85.6%

How did MRK perform over the long term?

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Dividends

3.2%

Current Dividend Yield

63%

Payout Ratio

Does MRK pay a reliable dividends?

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When do you need to buy MRK by to receive an upcoming dividend?
Merck dividend dates
Ex Dividend Date	Dec 16 2024
Dividend Pay Date	Jan 08 2025
Days until Ex dividend	2 days
Days until Dividend pay date	21 days

Does MRK pay a reliable dividends?

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/18 08:41
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/17 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

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

^* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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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

MRK Stock Overview

Rewards

Risk Analysis

Merck & Co., Inc. Competitors

LSE:AZN

UK£162.9b

SWX:ROG

CHF 207.0b

SWX:NOVN

CHF 177.4b

NYSE:JNJ

US$346.3b

Price History & Performance

Recent News & Updates

Merck & Co., Inc. Provides Update on KeyVibe and KEYFORM Clinical Development Programs Evaluating Investigational Vibostolimab and Favezelimab Fixed-Dose Combinations with Pembrolizumab

Merck Receives Positive EU CHMP Opinion for WELIREG®? (belzutifan) as Treatment for Adult Patients with Certain Types of Von Hippel-Lindau Disease-Associated Tumors and for Certain Previously Treated Adult Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

Merck Announces Phase 3 KEYLYNK-001 Trial Met Primary Endpoint of Progression-Free Survival (PFS) in Patients With Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces First Presentation of Data from the Phase 2 Waveline-007 Trial Evaluating Zilovertamab Vedotin

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces Initiation of Phase 3 Study (MOVe-NOW) Evaluating LAGEVRIOTM (Molnupiravir) for the Treatment of Covid-19 in High-Risk Adults

Merck's Sacituzumab Tirumotecan Granted FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Advanced EGFR-Mutated NSCLC

Recent updates

Merck & Co., Inc. Provides Update on KeyVibe and KEYFORM Clinical Development Programs Evaluating Investigational Vibostolimab and Favezelimab Fixed-Dose Combinations with Pembrolizumab

Merck Receives Positive EU CHMP Opinion for WELIREG®? (belzutifan) as Treatment for Adult Patients with Certain Types of Von Hippel-Lindau Disease-Associated Tumors and for Certain Previously Treated Adult Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

Merck Announces Phase 3 KEYLYNK-001 Trial Met Primary Endpoint of Progression-Free Survival (PFS) in Patients With Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces First Presentation of Data from the Phase 2 Waveline-007 Trial Evaluating Zilovertamab Vedotin

Merck & Co., Inc. Announces Initiation of Phase 3 Study (MOVe-NOW) Evaluating LAGEVRIOTM (Molnupiravir) for the Treatment of Covid-19 in High-Risk Adults

Merck's Sacituzumab Tirumotecan Granted FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Advanced EGFR-Mutated NSCLC

Third quarter dividend of US$0.81 announced

Insufficient new directors

Merck Announces Pivotal Phase 3 Zenith Trial Evaluating Winrevair Met Primary Endpoint At Interim Analysis

Merck & Co., Inc. Appoints Surendralal L. Karsanbha to its Board of Directors, Effective January 1, 2025

Merck & Co., Inc.'s WELIREG (Belzutifan) Approves in China for the Treatment of Adult Patients with Certain Types of Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) Disease-Associated Tumors

Merck Announces Phase 3 Trial of Subcutaneous Pembrolizumab with Berahyaluronidase Alfa Met Primary Endpoints

Merck Receives Positive EU CHMP Opinion for KEYTRUDA Plus Chemotherapy as First-Line Treatment for Adult Patients with Unresectable Non-Epithelioid Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease and Merck Announces Positive Topline Results from the Phase 3 Komet Trial

Merck Announces Canada's Drug Agency Recommends WINREVAIR (sotatercept) for Reimbursement

Third quarter 2024 earnings released: EPS: US$1.24 (vs US$1.87 in 3Q 2023)

Merck and Moderna, Inc. Initiates Phase 3 Trial Evaluating Adjuvant V940 (mRNA-4157) in Combination with KEYTRUDA (Pembrolizumab) After Neoadjuvant KEYTRUDA and Chemotherapy in Patients with Certain Types of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

CDC's ACIP Recommends Merck's CAPVAXIVE™ (Pneumococcal 21-valent Conjugate Vaccine) for Pneumococcal Vaccination in Adults 50 Years of Age and Older

Merck's KEYTRUDA® (Pembrolizumab) Receives 30th Approval from European Commission with Two New Indications in Gynecologic Cancers

Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Merck Announce Phase 2 Data Showing a Treatment Switch to an Investigational Oral Once-Weekly Combination Regimen of Islatravir and Lenacapavir Maintained Viral Suppression in Adults at Week 48

Merck Announces the Presentation of Positive Results from the Phase 2B/3 Clinical Trial (Mk-1654-004) Evaluating Clesrovimab

Merck’s CAPVAXIVE™ (Pneumococcal 21-valent Conjugate Vaccine) Demonstrates Positive Immune Responses in Adults with Increased Risk for Pneumococcal Disease

Merck & Co., Inc. to Report Q3, 2024 Results on Oct 31, 2024

FDA Approves Merck's KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Plus Pemetrexed and Platinum Chemotherapy as First-Line Treatment for Adult Patients with Unresectable Advanced or Metastatic Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Merck Announces Overall Survival Results from the Final Analysis of the Phase 3 Keynote-811 Trial Evaluating Keytruda® (Pembrolizumab)

Upcoming dividend of US$0.77 per share

Merck Announces WINREVAIR (Sotatercept) Is Authorized for Use in Canada for Adults with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Merck & Co., Inc. and EyeBio Announce Initiation of Phase 2b/3 Clinical Trial for Restoret™? for the Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema

European Commission Approves Merck's KEYTRUDA (Pembrolizumab) Plus Padcev (Enfortumab Vedotin-Ejfv) as First-Line Treatment of Unresectable or Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma in Adults

Merck & Co., Inc. Provides Update on Phase 3 KEYNOTE-867 and KEYNOTE-630 Trials

Merck Receives European Commission Approval for Winrevair (Sotatercept) in Combination with Other Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (Pah) Therapies, for the Treatment of Pah in Adult Patients with Functional Class II-III

Health Canada Approves Merck's KEYTRUDA® for the Treatment of Adult Patients with Unresectable Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Cancer with No Prior Systemic Therapy for mUC, in Combination with Enfortumab Vedotin

Merck & Co., Inc. Provides Update on Phase 3 KeyVibe-008 Trial Evaluating an Investigational Fixed-Dose Combination of Vibostolimab and Pembrolizumab in Patients With Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer