Merck & Co., Inc.MRK
Buy moreBuy more at today's $148, already under our buy price.
- 5 good· Earnings beat
- 4 to watch· Revenue slowing
$147.80+0.63 (+0.42%)
Price at 3:01 PM ET
After hours · opens in 17h 23mNext open: Friday, Nov 13, 9:30 AM ETNYSE · Healthcare · Drug Manufacturers - General · Very large company
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What would change it
Sources
- From the 10-Q for the quarter to Sep 30, reported Oct 29
- Yahoo Finance daily closes to Nov 11
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Shrinking
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Compared with the S&P 500
10 points
worse in one day
22 points
worse in five trading days
+67.3% in a yearsince Nov 11, 2025
The news behind our call
written yesterday, 4:24 PM ETYesterday, 4:24 PM ET · 1 articles · 1 sources
- Positive Phase 2b data for efinopegdutide is strengthening Merck’s MASH opportunity.
Merck beat its latest earnings estimate and raised its outlook.
What changed
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Overview
In plain numbers
- Revenue grew 4.9% from a year earlier, to $67.4B in the last twelve months.
- It keeps 15 cents of every revenue dollar as operating profit, down from 29 cents in FY 2021.
- It turned 19% of revenue into free cash flow: $12.4B in FY 2025.
- It owes $53.9B and holds $7.1B in cash and investments, so net debt is $46.8B.
Key figures
- Revenue (TTM)
- $67.4B
- Revenue growth, 1 year
- +4.9%
- Net income
- $2.5B
- EPS (diluted)
- $0.99
- Gross margin
- 76.9%
- Operating margin
- 15.1%
- Return on equity
- 5.1%
- Return on capital
- 5.9%
- Debt / equity
- 1.20
- Current ratio
- 1.35
- Dividend yield
- 2.30%
- Buyback yield
- 1.77%
Key facts
- Company value
- $362B
- Price / last year's earnings
- 36.7×
- Today's range
- 146.98149.31
- Past year's range
- 88.84155.53
- Yesterday's close
- $147.18
- Swings vs the market
- 0.2×smaller
- Dividend yield
- 2.30%$3.40 a year