Merck Co Stock Profit Margin

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 Profit Margin Analysis

Merck's Profit Margin measures overall efficiency of a company and shows its ability to withstand competition as well as defend against adverse conditions such as rising costs, falling prices, decline in sales or management distress. Profit margin tells investors how well the company executes on its overall pricing strategies as well as how effective the company in controlling its costs.

Profit Margin

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Net Income

Revenue

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100

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Current Merck Profit Margin

    
  0.24 %  
Most of Merck's fundamental indicators, such as Profit Margin, 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.
In a nutshell, Profit Margin indicator shows the amount of money the company makes from total sales or revenue. It can provide a good insight into companies in the same sector, as well as help to identify trends of a company from year to year.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, Merck Co has a Profit Margin of 0.2449%. This is 102.18% lower than that of the Healthcare sector and significantly higher than that of the Drug Manufacturers—General industry. The profit margin for all Germany stocks is 119.28% lower than that of the firm.

Merck Profit Margin 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 Profit Margin 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 number one stock in profit margin 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.