MRK - Merck & Co., Inc.
84.36 +0.23 (0.27%)
Pre-market: 7:18AM EST
| Previous close | 84.90 |
| Open | 84.66 |
| Bid | 84.05 x 1300 |
| Ask | 84.69 x 1800 |
| Day's range | 83.85 - 84.82 |
| 52-week range | 70.89 - 87.35 |
| Volume | 8,457,172 |
| Avg. volume | 8,088,896 |
| Market cap | 214.193B |
| Beta (3Y monthly) | 0.55 |
| PE ratio (TTM) | 23.51 |
| EPS (TTM) | N/A |
| Earnings date | N/A |
| Forward dividend & yield | 2.20 (2.59%) |
| Ex-dividend date | 2019-09-13 |
| 1y target est | N/A |
- Business Wire
Merck and Bayer’s Investigational Drug Vericiguat Meets Primary Endpoint in Phase 3 Study of Patients with Worsening Chronic Heart Failure
Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the Phase 3 VICTORIA study evaluating the efficacy and safety of vericiguat, a soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) stimulator being developed to treat patients with worsening chronic heart failure, has met the primary efficacy endpoint. Vericiguat reduced the risk of the composite endpoint of heart failure hospitalization or cardiovascular death in patients with worsening chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) compared to placebo when given in combination with available heart failure therapies.
- Business Wire
BRAVECTO® PLUS (fluralaner and moxidectin topical solution) for Cats Receives Approval from US Food and Drug Administration
Merck Animal Health, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., USA (MRK), today announced the U.S. approval of BRAVECTO® PLUS topical solution for cats by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). BRAVECTO PLUS is an extended-duration, broad-spectrum combination (fluralaner and moxidectin) topical solution for cats, indicated for both external and internal parasite infestations: ticks and fleas, heartworm, intestinal roundworm and hookworm. This unique formula in BRAVECTO PLUS provides extended protection for up to two months with just one application, making it the only product on the market to protect against this combination of parasites at a longer duration.
- Business Wire
US FDA Accepts Regulatory Submission of New Drug Application for Selumetinib in Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) and Grants Priority Review
AstraZeneca and Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a New Drug Application (NDA) and granted priority review for the MEK 1/2 inhibitor selumetinib as a potential new medicine for pediatric patients aged three years and older with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and symptomatic, inoperable plexiform neurofibromas (PNs).
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Merck’s ERVEBO® Granted Conditional Approval in the European Union
Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the European Commission has granted a conditional marketing authorization to ERVEBO for active immunization of individuals 18 years of age or older to protect against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) caused by Zaire Ebola virus. The use of ERVEBO should be in accordance with official recommendations.
- Business Wire
Merck Announces Third-Quarter 2019 Financial Results
KENILWORTH, N.J.-- -- Third-Quarter 2019 Worldwide Sales Were $12.4 Billion, an Increase of 15%; Sales Increased 16% Excluding Impact from Foreign Exchange; Growth Driven by Oncology and Human Health Vaccines KEYTRUDA Sales Grew 62% to $3.1 Billion; Excluding the Impact of Foreign Exchange, Sales Grew 64% Human Health Vaccines Sales Grew 17% to $2.5 Billion; Excluding the Impact of Foreign Exchange, ...
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Merck Receives Positive EU CHMP Opinion for Two New Regimens of KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) as First-Line Treatment for Metastatic or Unresectable Recurrent Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Opinion Supports Use of KEYTRUDA, as Monotherapy or in Combination with Platinum and 5-Fluorouracil Chemotherapy, in Patients Whose Tumors Express PD-L
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Merck Receives EU CHMP Positive Opinion for Investigational V920 Ebola Zaire Vaccine for Protection Against Ebola Virus Disease
Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending a conditional marketing authorization for V920 Ebola Zaire vaccine (rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP, live). If affirmed by the European Commission, the vaccine will be authorized under the brand name ERVEBO® (pronounced UR-VEE-BOH) and indicated for active immunization of individuals 18 years of age or older to protect against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) caused by Zaire Ebola virus. The CHMP’s recommendation, completed under accelerated assessment, will now be considered by the European Commission.
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Merck Issues 2018/2019 Corporate Responsibility Report
Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today issued its 2018/2019 Corporate Responsibility Report. The report highlights the company’s performance and progress in its four corporate responsibility priority areas of Access to Health, Employees, Environmental Sustainability and Ethics & Values. “Operating responsibly is at the heart of our ability to deliver sustainable impact and long-term value for our business and society,” said Kenneth C. Frazier, Merck chairman and chief executive officer.
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Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Now Approved as Monotherapy in China for First-Line Treatment of Certain Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Whose Tumors Express PD-L1
KEYTRUDA is First Anti-PD-1 Therapy Approved as Monotherapy and in Combination with Chemotherapy in First-Line Setting for NSCLC in China
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FDA Accepts Two Applications for Merck’s DIFICID® (fidaxomicin) to Treat Children Aged Six Months Up to 18 years with Clostridium difficile Infections
Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review a New Drug Application (NDA) for DIFICID® (fidaxomicin) for oral suspension, and a supplemental NDA (sNDA) for a new indication for use of DIFICID tablets and oral suspension for the treatment of Clostridium (also known as Clostridioides) difficile infections (CDI) in children aged six months or older. Both applications have received a priority review classification by the FDA.
- Business Wire
Merck to Hold Third-Quarter 2019 Sales and Earnings Conference Call on October 29
Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, will hold its third-quarter 2019 sales and earnings conference call with institutional investors and analysts at 8:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 29. During the call, company executives will provide an overview of Merck’s performance for the quarter. Investors, journalists and the general public may access a live audio webcast of the call on Merck’s website at http://investors.merck.com/investors/webcasts-and-presentations/default.aspx.
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LYNPARZA® (olaparib) More Than Doubled Median Radiographic Progression-Free Survival (rPFS) in BRCA1/2 or ATM Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer vs. Standard of Care (7.4 vs. 3.6 months)
Merck and AstraZeneca’s LYNPARZA Reduced the Risk of Disease Progression or Death by 51% in Men with Homologous Recombination Repair Gene Mutations First Positive Phase 3 Tri
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Merck to Present at the 2019 Cantor Fitzgerald Global Healthcare Conference
Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that Michael Nally, Chief Marketing Officer for Merck, is scheduled to present during a fireside chat at the Cantor Fitzgerald 2019 Annual Global Healthcare Conference in New York on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 2:25 p.m. EDT. For more than a century, Merck, a leading global biopharmaceutical company known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases.
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Pivotal RESTORE-IMI 2 Phase 3 Study of Merck’s RECARBRIO™ (imipenem, cilastatin, and relebactam) in Hospital-Acquired and Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia (HABP/VABP) Met Primary Endpoint
Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the pivotal Phase 3 RECARBRIO™ (imipenem 500 mg, cilastatin 500 mg, and relebactam 250 mg) RESTORE-IMI 2 trial met its primary endpoint. The global, multicenter, randomized, non-inferiority trial investigated the efficacy and safety of Merck’s antibacterial product RECARBRIO for use in adult patients with hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (HABP/VABP). Results from the trial showed RECARBRIO met both the primary and key secondary endpoints of statistical non-inferiority compared to piperacillin/tazobactam in Day 28 all-cause mortality and clinical response at early follow up, respectively, in the modified intent-to-treat (MITT) population.
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Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Plus Chemotherapy Showed Statistically Significant Increase in Pathological Complete Response Versus Chemotherapy as Neoadjuvant Therapy in Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)
Interim Results from Pivotal Neoadjuvant/Adjuvant Phase 3 KEYNOTE-522 Trial Presented for the First Time at ESMO 2019 Congress During Presidential Symposium
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Final Study Results Evaluating KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Plus LENVIMA® (lenvatinib) Combination Treatment in Advanced Endometrial Cancer Presented at ESMO 2019 Congress
Merck , known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Eisai today announced final results from the full endometrial cancer cohort of KEYNOTE-146/Study 111 evaluating KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, plus LENVIMA, an orally available kinase inhibitor discovered by Eisai.