Healthcare
Live Price
Offline$125.45
+4.02% today
1Y Change
+51.72%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026
Coverage: 248 bars · Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) is a Healthcare stock with a market cap of $277.03B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $125.45 and up 51.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +1.3%, EPS growth of +8.9%, a dividend yield of 3.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +1.3%, EPS +8.9%, free cash flow -31.7% with operating margin 34.0% and ROIC 13.1%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.0%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 31.0 and price/sales 4.2. Stock Foundry combines MRK price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Healthcare peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
MRK
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
MRK Max Drawdown
-11.90%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for MRK and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$48.7B
-17.8% YoY
FY Net Income
$13.0B
-10.1% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$9.7B
-34.3% YoY
Revenue Growth
+1.3%
EPS Growth
+8.9%
Gross Margin
74.8%
Net Margin
28.1%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 65.0B | 64.2B | 60.1B | 59.3B | 48.7B |
| Gross Profit | 53.0B | 49.0B | 44.0B | 41.9B | 35.1B |
| Operating Income | 26.8B | 20.2B | 3.0B | 18.3B | 13.2B |
| EBITDA | 25.4B | 25.7B | 6.9B | 21.3B | 17.9B |
| Net Income | 18.3B | 17.1B | 365M | 14.5B | 13.0B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 14.6B | 13.2B | 6.8B | 12.7B | 8.1B |
| Total Assets | 136.9B | 117.1B | 106.7B | 109.2B | 105.7B |
| Total Liabilities | 84.2B | 70.7B | 69.0B | 63.1B | 67.4B |
| Shareholder Equity | 52.6B | 46.3B | 37.6B | 46.0B | 38.2B |
| Total Debt | 50.5B | 38.3B | 36.3B | 32.0B | 34.6B |
| Net Debt | 36.0B | 25.0B | 29.4B | 19.3B | 26.5B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
14.1B
-26.1% YoY
Capital Expenditures
4.4B
-1.4% YoY
Free Cash Flow
9.7B
-34.3% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
74.8%
Operating Margin
34.0%
Net Margin
28.1%
ROE
17.7%
Debt / Equity
0.96x
Next Step
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