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Merck & Co Inc  

Company profile

Symbol: MRK Exchange: NYSE Sector: Healthcare Industry: Major Drugs
Market Cap: $118.37 B Data Since: 1971-01-04 Last Close : $53.32 (2008-01-18)
Website: www.merck.com
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Analysis :    [Random Walk]   [Default Prediction]   [Fundamental Analysis]


Price Prediction

 

Random walk modeling for 2008 (what's this?). Click on the images for the high resolution version.

Initial Value* : $58.11 Historic Volatility : 1.84% Annual Drift : 7%

Predicted price distribution   Predicted high to date and low to date price

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Money Flow Index

 

Money FLow Index for 2008

Money Flow Index   

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Default Prediction for 2007-12-31

 

Default prediction by Z-Score (what's this?).

Z Score :  
2.3159   

Sector         Industry
Merck & Co Inc Z score histogram (Healthcare sector)   Merck & Co Inc Z score histogram (Major Drugs industry)

View the other companies in the same industry : Major Drugs

Alternative Z-Scores designed for non-public companies (i.e. take these with a grain of salt):

For manufacuring companies:
Z' Score :  
1.7209   

Sector         Industry
Merck & Co Inc Z' score histogram (Healthcare sector)  Merck & Co Inc Z' score histogram (Major Drugs industry)  

For non-manufacturing companies:
Z'' Score :  
4.172   

Sector         Industry
  Merck & Co Inc Z'' score histogram (Healthcare sector)  Merck & Co Inc Z score histogram (Major Drugs industry)

 

Fundamental Analysis for 2007-

 

Fundamental Analysis measures (what's this?).

Date of financial statements used:  2007-12-31
Book Value : $16.017 B Internal Value : $16.017 B Working Capital : $2.787 B
Debt to Asset Ratio : 0.624 Current Ratio: 0.815 Turnover Ratio: 51.457
Net Margins : 29.551 EPS : 1.475 P/E ratio : 36.149
P/B ratio : 7.390 ROE : 0.204 ROA : 0.068