Merck & Co. boasts more than six blockbuster drugs in its portfolio with PD-L1 inhibitor, Keytruda, approved for several types of cancer. Keytruda has played an instrumental role in driving Merck's steady revenue growth in the past few years. Well-known products in Merck's portfolio include Keytruda, Simponi , Januvia and Janumet, Bridion, Isentress, ProQuad, Gardasil, Pneumovax 23, RotaTeq and Belsomra. Merck made its biggest acquisition of Schering-Plough and sold off its Consumer Care business to Bayer. Other key acquisitions include Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Rigontec, ArQule and Acceleron Pharma. IMerck spun off products from its Women's Health unit, legacy drugs and biosimilar products into a new publicly traded company called Organon & Co.
Industry sector: Medical
Sector classification: Pharmaceutical preparations
Deep Learning based analysis and prediction model for Merck & Company, Inc. (MRK) stock is a 1st Generation Non-linear Autoregresive with exogenous variable(s) (NARX) model based on the Recurrent Neural Network architecture.
Model is in the production pipeline since Sept. 10, 2014.
Market data for MRK model training are being downloaded from the
Quandl premium datasets on a daily basis.
Risks related to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the virus named “SARS-CoV-2” are
accounted for in this model in the form of the historical data coincided with outbreaks and other
global events in the past used to train ML prediction model for MRK.
Model is being retrained on a daily basis.
| Float | 2521M |
| P/E | 13.36 |
| Shares Outstanding | 2529M |
| % Held by Insiders | 0.29% |
| % Held by Institutions | 72.88% |
| EPS (last reported FY) | $6.02 |
| EPS (last reported Q) | $2.14 |
| EPS, estimated (last reported Q) | $1.81 |
| Total revenues | $49 B |
| Net income | $13 B |