MRK — Merck & Co Inc
On NYSE, Merck & Co Inc trades as MRK.
MRK belongs to the Healthcare sector and the Drug Manufacturers industry.
To answer "what is MRK worth" or "what is happening with Merck & Co Inc", VAQO shows a live price alongside technical analysis, relevant headlines and what other investors think.
VAQO's learning model reads seven technical indicators — short and long momentum, RSI, volatility, volume ratio, moving-average cross and position in the 52-week range — and turns them into transparent opportunity and risk scores.
How מרק (MRK) is trading
מרק (MRK) is up 0.56% at $148.81.
Through the session MRK traded between $147.48 and $149.94, a range worth 1.7% of the share price. The current price sits at 54% of that daily range.
Volume ran near 8.3M shares. Volume matters because it separates a price move backed by broad participation from one driven by a handful of trades.
MRK sector and context
מרק operates in the Healthcare sector, within Drug Manufacturers, and is listed on NYSE.
Sector is not a technicality: companies in the same sector move together in response to interest rates, regulation and the economic cycle, and a move in MRK often reflects an industry trend rather than anything happening at the company. The useful comparison is against direct peers, not against the broad index.
Names traded alongside MRK in the same sector: PFE (Pfizer Inc), JNJ (Johnson & Johnson), UNH (UnitedHealth Group Inc), ABBV (AbbVie Inc), LLY (Eli Lilly and Company).
What VAQO's model says about MRK
VAQO runs two statistical models over MRK, trained on real market data and executed inside the browser without sending anything to a server. They report three separate measures — momentum, risk and opportunity — instead of a single arrow announcing where the stock is headed.
That separation comes from the numbers themselves: the direction model reaches 54.7% accuracy across 73,781 samples, barely better than a coin flip. The volatility model reaches 77.1% across 120,467 samples, because predicting how much an asset will move is a far easier problem than predicting which way it will move.
In practice for MRK: the risk measure is the more dependable half, and the directional read is a hint rather than a claim. Full accuracy figures are published on the model page, including when they fall.
MRK at a glance
- Symbol: MRK
- Name: Merck & Co Inc
- Sector: Healthcare
- Industry: Drug Manufacturers
- Exchange: NYSE
- Instrument: Stock
MRK — frequently asked questions
How much does MRK stock cost today?
מרק (MRK) trades at $148.81, a change of +0.56% in the latest session.
Is MRK up or down today?
MRK is up 0.56% in the latest session, at $148.81.
What is the daily trading range for MRK?
MRK traded between $147.48 and $149.94 in the latest session, and currently trades at $148.81.
What is the trading volume for MRK?
MRK traded roughly 8.3M shares in the latest session.
Which exchange is MRK listed on?
MRK is listed on NYSE, in the Healthcare sector.
Should I buy MRK stock?
VAQO gives no buy or sell recommendations and is not an investment adviser. What it does provide for MRK: momentum, risk and opportunity scoring from a model whose accuracy is published openly, a real-time price, news synthesised from multiple outlets, and community sentiment — so a decision can rest on data.
MRK appears in
Traded alongside MRK
- PFE — Pfizer Inc
- JNJ — Johnson & Johnson
- UNH — UnitedHealth Group Inc
- ABBV — AbbVie Inc
- LLY — Eli Lilly and Company
- TMO — Thermo Fisher Scientific
Last updated: 2026-09-27