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Merck & Co. (MRK)

(Real Time Quote from BATS)

$102.22 USD

102.22
9,187,247

-2.61 (-2.49%)

Updated Oct 31, 2024 01:02 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy24.10%
2Buy17.80%
3Hold9.50%
4Sell2.70%
5Strong Sell2.70%
S&P50011.20%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

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The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

Value Score A
Growth Score A
Momentum Score A
VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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B Value C Growth F Momentum C VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 21% (53 out of 251)

Industry: Large Cap Pharmaceuticals

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Merck (MRK) Price Targets

Average Price Target Highest Price Target Lowest Price Target Upside to Average Price Target
$138.88 $168.00 $115.00 32.48%

Price Target

Based on short-term price targets offered by 24 analysts, the average price target for Merck comes to $138.88. The forecasts range from a low of $115.00 to a high of $168.00. The average price target represents an increase of 32.48% from the last closing price of $104.83.

Analyst Price Targets (24)

Last Close 104.83
Average 138.88 32.48% Upside Low 115.00 9.70% Upside High 168.00 60.26% Upside

Broker Rating

Merck currently has an average brokerage recommendation (ABR) of 1.30 on a scale of 1 to 5 (Strong Buy to Strong Sell), calculated based on the actual recommendations (Buy, Hold, Sell etc.) made by 27 brokerage firms. The current ABR compares to an ABR of 1.23 a month ago based on 26 recommendations.

Of the 27 recommendations deriving the current ABR, 23 are Strong Buy, representing 85.19% of all recommendations. A month ago, Strong Buy represented 88.46%.

Broker Rating Breakdown

Broker Rating Visualization

Brokerage Recommendations

Today 1 Week Ago 1 Month Ago 2 Months Ago 3 Months Ago
Strong Buy 23 23 23 23 23
Buy 0 0 0 0 0
Hold 4 4 3 3 3
Sell 0 0 0 0 0
Strong Sell 0 0 0 0 0
ABR 1.30 1.30 1.23 1.23 1.23

1. Not Ident. Many of the brokerage firms who provide Zacks data ask that we keep their identity confidential.

2. In most cases the # of brokers listed above is less than the # of brokerage firms that have a recommendation on the stock. That is because some firms prohibit Zacks from displaying detailed information on their recommendations such as in the upgrade/downgrade table.

Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades

Date Brokerage Firm Analyst Previous Current
10/17/2024 Not Identified Not Identified Not Available Hold
10/14/2024 Mizuho SecuritiesUSA Salim Syed Strong Buy Strong Buy
10/8/2024 Cowen & Co. Steve M Scala Strong Buy Strong Buy
10/7/2024 SVB Securities Daina M Graybosch Strong Buy Strong Buy
9/30/2024 Not Identified Not Identified Strong Buy Strong Buy
9/16/2024 Not Identified Not Identified Strong Buy Strong Buy
9/16/2024 Cantor Fitzgerald & Co Louise Chen Strong Buy Strong Buy
9/11/2024 UBS Trung Huynh Not Available Strong Buy
9/8/2024 Truist Securities Srikripa Devarakonda Strong Buy Strong Buy
8/13/2024 Not Identified Not Identified Strong Buy Strong Buy
8/8/2024 Berenberg Bank Luisa Hector Strong Buy Strong Buy
8/6/2024 Daiwa America Narumi Nakagiri Strong Buy Strong Buy
7/31/2024 Wells Fargo Securities Mohit Bansal Hold Hold
7/31/2024 Guggenheim Securities Seamus Fernandez Strong Buy Strong Buy
7/31/2024 Not Identified Not Identified Not Available Strong Buy
7/31/2024 Not Identified Not Identified Strong Buy Strong Buy
7/30/2024 Evercore Partners Umer Raffat Not Available Strong Buy
7/19/2024 BMO Capital Markets Evan Seigerman Strong Buy Strong Buy
7/17/2024 Not Identified Not Identified Strong Buy Strong Buy
7/16/2024 Goldman Sachs Chris Shibutani Strong Buy Strong Buy
6/5/2024 Argus Research Corp. Jasper Hellweg Not Available Strong Buy
6/5/2024 Not Identified Not Identified Hold Hold
5/15/2024 Atlantic Equities Steven K Chesney Strong Buy Strong Buy

1. Not Ident. Many of the brokerage firms who provide Zacks data ask that we keep their identity confidential.

2. In most cases the # of brokers listed above is less than the # of brokerage firms that have a recommendation on the stock. That is because some firms prohibit Zacks from displaying detailed information on their recommendations such as in the upgrade/downgrade table.

Average Brokerage Rating

Current ABR

Zacks provides the average brokerage recommendation (ABR) for thousands of stocks for most of the leading investment web sties. The ABR is the calculated average of the actual recommendations (strong buy, hold, sell etc) made by the brokerage firms for a given stock.

ABR vs Zacks Rank

 1.30
ABR (Last week) 1.30
# of Recs in ABR 27
Average Target Price $138.88
LT Growth Rate 9.00%
Industry Large Cap Pharmaceuticals
Industry Rank by ABR 53 of 252
Current Quarter EPS Est: 1.50

MRK FAQs

Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) currently has an average brokerage recommendation (ABR) of 1.30 on a scale of 1 to 5 (Strong Buy to Strong Sell), calculated based on the actual recommendations (Buy, Hold, Sell etc.) made by 27 brokerage firms.

The average price target for Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) is $138.88. The current on short-term price targets is based on 10 reports.

The forecasts for Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) range from a low of $115 to a high of $168. The average price target represents a increase of $32.48 from the last closing price of $104.83.

The current UPSIDE for Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) is 32.48%

Based on short-term price targets offered by 24 analysts, the average price target for Merck comes to $138.88. The forecasts range from a low of $115.00 to a high of $168.00. The average price target represents an increase of 32.48% from the last closing price of $104.83.