NJ iGaming Hits $2.4b--What's Next?
New Jersey's $2.4B iGaming milestone highlights an exploding market. One company, focused on VIP players, delivers $2.13 revenue per $1 spent, 20% retention rates, and 60% growth. With a tight share float and LatAm expansion, this stock is a rare gem.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 2,532,030,000 |
| Shares Float | 2,527,260,000 |
| Shares Short | 30,930,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 6% |
| Institution Holdings | 79.40% |
About Merck & Co Inc
Merck & Co., Inc. operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Pharmaceutical and Animal Health. The Pharmaceutical segment offers human health pharmaceutical products in the areas of oncology, hospital acute care, immunology, neuroscience, virology, cardiovascular, and diabetes under the Keytruda, Bridion, Adempas, Lagevrio, Belsomra, Simponi, and Januvia brands, as well as vaccine products consisting of preventive pediatric, adolescent, and adult vaccines under the Gardasil/Gardasil 9, ProQuad, M-M-R II, Varivax, RotaTeq, Live Oral, Vaxneuvance, Pneumovax 23, and Vaqta names. The Animal Health segment discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and health management solutions and services, as well as digitally connected identification, traceability, and monitoring products. vIt has development and commercialization agreement for three of Daiichi Sankyo's deruxtecan ADC candidates, which include patritumab deruxtecan, ifinatamab deruxtecan, and raludotatug deruxtecan for the treatment of multiple solid tumors both as monotherapy and/or in combination with other treatments; and AstraZeneca PLC to co-development and co-commercialize AstraZeneca's Lynparza products for multiple cancer types, and Koselugo for multiple indications. It also has licensed to develop, manufacture and commercialize LM-299, a novel investigational PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody from LaNova. The company also has a collaboration agreement with Eisai Co., Ltd., Bayer AG, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, as well Moderna, Inc. Merck & Co., Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey.
General
| Name | Merck & Co Inc |
| Ticker | MRK |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Industry | Drug Manufacturers - General |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 70,000 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 125.26 |
| Market Cap | 242,035,600,000 |
| PE Ratio | 20.04 |
| PEG Ratio | 0.07 |
| EBITDA | 22,927,998,976 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 7.68 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 1.89 |
| Profit Margin | 19.32% |
| Operating Margin | 23.00 |
| Return on Assets | 0.11 |
| Return on Equity | 0.28 |
| Revenue | 62.9B |
| Earnings Per Share | 4.78 |
| Revenue Per Share | 24.93 |
| Gross Profit | 48,388,001,792 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.04 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 20.02 |
| Forward PE | 9.91 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 3.83 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 5.44 |
Dividend
Merck & Co Inc pays out a dividend of $3.10 per share, with a dividend yield of 3.24%.
MRK's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on January 8, 2025.
They pay out 2,065.60% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Jan 8, 2025 | $0.81 |
| Oct 7, 2024 | $0.77 |
| Jul 8, 2024 | $0.77 |
| Apr 5, 2024 | $0.77 |
| Jan 8, 2024 | $0.77 |
| Oct 6, 2023 | $0.73 |
| Jul 10, 2023 | $0.73 |
| Apr 10, 2023 | $0.73 |
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