Merck Co Stock Cash And Equivalents

6MK Stock  EUR 95.80  1.30  1.34%   
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 Cash And Equivalents Analysis

Merck's Cash or Cash Equivalents are the most liquid of all assets found on the company's balance sheet. It is used in calculating many of the firm's liquidity ratios and is a good indicator of the overall financial health of a company. Companies with a lot of cash are usually attractive takeover targets. Cash Equivalents are balance sheet items that are typically reported using currency printed on notes.

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Current Merck Cash And Equivalents

    
  7 B  
Most of Merck's fundamental indicators, such as Cash And Equivalents, 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.
Cash equivalents represent current assets that are easily convertible to cash such as short term bonds, savings account, money market funds, or certificate of deposits (CDs). One of the important consideration companies make when classifying assets as cash equivalent is that investments they report on their balance sheets under current assets should have almost no risk of change in value over the next few months (usually three months).
Competition

In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Merck Co has 7 B in Cash And Equivalents. This is much higher than that of the Healthcare sector and significantly higher than that of the Drug Manufacturers—General industry. The cash and equivalents for all Germany stocks is 159.06% lower than that of the firm.

Merck Cash And Equivalents 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 Cash And Equivalents 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 below average in cash and equivalents category among its peers.

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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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Merck financial ratios help investors to determine whether Merck Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Merck with respect to the benefits of owning Merck security.