Healthcare
Live Price
Offline$127.19
+1.39% today
1Y Change
+62.53%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026
Coverage: 249 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 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 $127.19 and up 62.5% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 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.
Relative Read
MRK is 44.54 pts ahead over the shared 1Y window.
MRK had 2.77 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
MRK beat SPY in 2 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 0.
MRK
+62.53%
Normalized return
SPY
+17.99%
S&P 500
Excess Return
+44.54 pts
Relative to SPY
MRK Max Drawdown
-11.90%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for MRK and SPY.
| Year | MRK | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +20.86% | +6.71% | +14.16 pts | MRK |
| 2025 | +33.98% | +11.19% | +22.79 pts | MRK |
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