Global healthcare company providing medicines and vaccines for oncology, vaccines, hospital acute care, and animal health including Keytruda.
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Company Profile & Ownership
Merck & Co., Inc. operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It offers human health pharmaceutical for various areas under the Keytruda, Keytruda Qlex, Welireg, Gardasil, ProQuad, M-M-R II, Varivax, Vaxneuvance, Capvaxive, RotaTeq, Pneumovax 23, Bridion, Prevymis, Dificid, Zerbaxa, Winrevair, Adempas/ Verquvo, Ohtuvayre, Lagevrio, Isentress/Isentress HD, Delstrigo, Pifeltro, Belsomra, Januvia, and Janumet brands. The company also provides veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines and health management solutions and services, such as livestock products under the Nuflor, Bovilis/Vista, Bovilis Cryptium, Banamine, Estrumate, Matrix, Resflor, Zuprevo, Revalor, Safe-Guard, M+Pac, Porcilis, Circumvent, Nobilis/Innovax, Paracox and Coccivac, Exzolt, Slice, Imvixa, Clynav, Aquavac/Norvax, Aquaflor, Flexolt brands; Allflex Livestock Intelligence solutions; and companion animal products under the Bravecto One-Month, Bravecto Injectable/Quantum, Bravecto TriUNO, Bravecto Plus, Sentinel Spectrum, Sentinel Flavor Tabs, Numelvi, Optimmune, Nobivac NXT, GilvetMab, Otomax, Mometamax, Mometamax Ultra, Posatex, Caninsulin/Vetsulin, Panacur, Safeguard, Regumate, Prestige, Scalibor/Exspot, Sure Petcare, and Home Again brands. It has development and commercialization agreement for three of Daiichi Sankyo's deruxtecan ADC candidates; AstraZeneca PLC to co-development and co-commercialize AstraZeneca's Lynparza products for multiple cancer types; licensed to develop, manufacture and commercialize LM-299, a novel investigational PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody from LaNova; and collaboration agreement with Eisai Co., Ltd., Bayer AG, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, as well Moderna, Inc. Merck & Co., Inc. has strategic collaboration with Infinimmune, Inc. to discover and develop antibodies against multiple therapeutic targets. The company was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey.
Company profile record
Merck & Company Inc
Common Stock · Health Care · Pharmaceuticals
Company
- Company / asset
- Merck & Company Inc
- Security type
- Common Stock
- Sector
- Health Care
- Industry
- Pharmaceuticals
- HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Head office
- 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ, United States, 07065
Leadership & scale
- Chief executive
- Mr. Robert M. Davis J.D.
- CEO year born
- 1967
- Full-time employees
- 73K
- Fiscal year end
- December
- IPO date
- 1978-01-13
Fundamentals snapshot
- Market Cap
- USD 363.1B
- P/E
- 114.4x
- Revenue (Q2 26)
- USD 16.6B
- Profit (Q2 26)
- USD -1.3B
- Dividend Yield
- 1.6%
- Revenue (FY 25)
- USD 64.9B
- Shares in public float
- 2.5B
- Insider ownership
- 0.06%
Reporting & identifiers
- Symbol
- MRK.NYSE
- Listing
- 🇺🇸 United States | Dividend Tax: 30%
- Ticker Currency
- USD
- Income Statement Currency
- USD
- Balance Sheet Currency
- USD
- Cash Flow Currency
- USD
- EPS Currency
- USD
- Contract Type
- SPOT
- ISIN
- US58933Y1055
- Asset ID
- equity_45e92af8-55ef-5e9b-ac6d-cc387d5a8b26
Ownership
Shares Outstanding
- Shares outstanding
Top holders
- BlackRock Inc225,830,330 shares · 9.15% · Reported 2026-03-31
- Vanguard Capital Management, LLC160,987,624 shares · 6.53% · Reported 2026-03-31
- State Street Corp119,325,673 shares · 4.84% · Reported 2026-03-31
- Wellington Management Company LLP86,249,283 shares · 3.50% · Reported 2026-06-30
- Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest78,649,160 shares · 3.19% · Reported 2026-07-31
- Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC67,304,305 shares · 2.73% · Reported 2026-03-31
- Vanguard 500 Index Investor64,831,228 shares · 2.63% · Reported 2026-07-31
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- Geode Capital Management, LLC59,558,154 shares · 2.41% · Reported 2026-03-31
- JPMorgan Chase & Co52,972,983 shares · 2.15% · Reported 2026-03-31
- Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc49,765,225 shares · 2.02% · Reported 2026-03-31
- Morgan Stanley - Brokerage Accounts47,632,487 shares · 1.93% · Reported 2026-03-31
- FMR Inc44,516,010 shares · 1.80% · Reported 2026-03-31
- Fisher Asset Management, LLC38,516,263 shares · 1.56% · Reported 2026-06-30
- NORGES BANK36,983,784 shares · 1.50% · Reported 2026-06-30
- Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF™36,145,409 shares · 1.47% · Reported 2026-08-29
Earnings, Profitability & Valuation
Earnings & Revenue
Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow
- Revenue
- Free cash flow
- Net income
Valuation
Historical P/E Ratio
- Published P/E
Profitability & Margins
Profitability Margins
- Gross margin
- Operating margin
- Net margin
- Free cash flow margin
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