Merck Co Stock Return On Equity
| 6MK Stock | EUR 97.10 3.70 3.96% |
Merck Co fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Merck's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Merck Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Merck's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Merck stock.
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Merck Co Company Return On Equity Analysis
Merck's Return on Equity or ROE tells company stockholders how effectually their money is being utilized or reinvested. It is a useful ratio when analyzing company profitability or the management effectiveness given the capital invested by the shareholders. ROE shows how efficiently a company utilizes investments to generate income.
Current Merck Return On Equity | 0.34 |
Most of Merck's fundamental indicators, such as Return On Equity, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Merck Co is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
For most industries, Return on Equity between 10% and 30% are considered desirable to provide dividends to owners and have funds for the future growth of the company. Investors should be very careful using ROE as the only efficiency indicator because ROE can be high if a company is heavily leveraged.
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Based on the latest financial disclosure, Merck Co has a Return On Equity of 0.3446. This is 101.44% lower than that of the Healthcare sector and significantly higher than that of the Drug Manufacturers—General industry. The return on equity for all Germany stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.
Merck Return On Equity Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Merck's direct or indirect competition against its Return On Equity to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Merck could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Merck by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.Merck is rated third in return on equity category among its peers.
Merck Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.34 | |||
| Return On Asset | 0.12 | |||
| Profit Margin | 0.24 % | |||
| Operating Margin | 0.35 % | |||
| Current Valuation | 286.52 B | |||
| Shares Outstanding | 2.54 B | |||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 0.09 % | |||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 77.66 % | |||
| Price To Earning | 31.84 X | |||
| Price To Book | 6.30 X | |||
| Price To Sales | 4.45 X | |||
| Revenue | 59.28 B | |||
| Gross Profit | 42.08 B | |||
| EBITDA | 21.32 B | |||
| Net Income | 14.52 B | |||
| Cash And Equivalents | 7 B | |||
| Cash Per Share | 2.76 X | |||
| Total Debt | 28.75 B | |||
| Debt To Equity | 1.16 % | |||
| Current Ratio | 1.31 X | |||
| Book Value Per Share | 18.12 X | |||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 19.09 B | |||
| Earnings Per Share | 5.39 X | |||
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 1.35 X | |||
| Number Of Employees | 67 K | |||
| Beta | 0.37 | |||
| Market Capitalization | 254.37 B | |||
| Total Asset | 109.16 B | |||
| Z Score | 4.8 | |||
| Annual Yield | 0.03 % | |||
| Five Year Return | 2.86 % | |||
| Net Asset | 109.16 B | |||
| Last Dividend Paid | 2.76 |
About Merck Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Merck Co's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Merck using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Merck Co based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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