Currently, there are 2.53B common shares owned by the public and among those 2.53B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -2.26% and -8.35% over the past three months. MRK shares are trading -6.56% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -0.95% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $98.60 and touched a high of $134.63 over the same period. MRK has an average intraday trading volume of 9.40 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -4.62%, -9.01%, and -16.50% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Merck & Co Inc (NYSE: MRK) shares accounts for 78.82% of the company’s 2.53B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $257.11B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.42. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 21.34, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $4.77. The company has a PEG of 0.89 and a Quick Ratio of 1.22 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.87. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.23% over the week and 1.74% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Merck & Co Inc (MRK) will achieve an EPS of 1.86 for the current quarter, 2.28 for the next quarter and 9.49 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 1.74 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 1.74. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.03 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 413.53%, and 22.14% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 23.85% over the next five years, compared to -42.70% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the MRK, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Bernstein stated their Mkt Perform rating for the stock in a research note on October 17, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $115. Societe Generale coverage for the Merck & Co Inc (MRK) stock in a research note released on March 11, 2024 offered a Sell rating with a price target of $104. TD Cowen was of a view on January 04, 2024 that the stock is Outperform, while Deutsche Bank gave the stock Buy rating on November 09, 2023, issuing a price target of $115. BMO Capital Markets on their part issued Outperform rating on October 27, 2023.
