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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ABT Abbott Laboratories	$133.99 -1.2%	$131.70	$99.71 ▼ $141.23	$233.12B	0.73	6.10 million shs	5.08 million shs
AZN AstraZeneca	$73.55 -1.2%	$69.98	$61.24 ▼ $87.68	$228.10B	0.38	5.20 million shs	3.42 million shs
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$80.97 -0.9%	$78.97	$73.31 ▼ $134.63	$203.31B	0.38	12.87 million shs	12.57 million shs
PFE Pfizer	$24.40 -0.6%	$23.11	$20.92 ▼ $31.54	$138.71B	0.57	41.18 million shs	35.08 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ABT Abbott Laboratories	0.00%	+1.35%	+0.46%	+6.17%	+30.60%
AZN AstraZeneca	0.00%	+2.11%	+8.15%	-3.81%	-6.50%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	0.00%	+3.45%	+7.36%	-13.88%	-36.92%
PFE Pfizer	0.00%	+4.93%	+7.39%	-5.97%	-10.97%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
ABT Abbott Laboratories	4.9543 of 5 stars	2.4	5.0	4.2	4.5	3.4	2.5	2.5
AZN AstraZeneca	2.8879 of 5 stars	2.6	5.0	1.7	0.0	2.8	0.0	1.3
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	4.9964 of 5 stars	3.2	5.0	5.0	3.9	2.9	2.5	3.8
PFE Pfizer	4.9768 of 5 stars	3.3	4.0	4.2	4.3	2.8	1.7	3.1

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ABT Abbott Laboratories	2.80	Moderate Buy	$142.61	6.43% Upside
AZN AstraZeneca	3.13	Buy	$85.00	15.57% Upside
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	2.43	Hold	$109.19	34.86% Upside
PFE Pfizer	2.53	Moderate Buy	$29.17	19.55% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest AZN, MRK, ABT, and PFE Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
6/16/2025	ABT Abbott Laboratories	Leerink Partners Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Market Perform	$143.00
5/20/2025	MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	Cantor Fitzgerald Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Overweight ➝ Cautious
5/14/2025	MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Neutral	$115.00 ➝ $84.00
4/30/2025	PFE Pfizer	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$24.00 ➝ $25.00
4/22/2025	MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	Cantor Fitzgerald Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral	$85.00
4/22/2025	PFE Pfizer	Cantor Fitzgerald Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Overweight ➝ Neutral	$24.00
4/17/2025	ABT Abbott Laboratories	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$133.00 ➝ $145.00
4/17/2025	ABT Abbott Laboratories	Raymond James Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$132.00 ➝ $142.00
4/17/2025	ABT Abbott Laboratories	Royal Bank of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$140.00 ➝ $145.00
4/17/2025	ABT Abbott Laboratories	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$117.00 ➝ $127.00
4/17/2025	ABT Abbott Laboratories	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$136.00 ➝ $147.00

(Data available from 6/16/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ABT Abbott Laboratories	$42.34B	5.51	$5.77 per share	23.22	$22.36 per share	5.99
AZN AstraZeneca	$54.98B	4.15	$6.24 per share	11.79	$13.18 per share	5.58
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$63.92B	3.18	$2.81 per share	28.82	$14.85 per share	5.45
PFE Pfizer	$62.46B	2.22	$3.82 per share	6.38	$15.81 per share	1.54

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ABT Abbott Laboratories	$13.40B	$7.71	17.51	23.38	2.52	31.95%	20.74%	11.19%	7/17/2025 (Estimated)
AZN AstraZeneca	$7.04B	$2.49	32.54	14.71	1.42	13.01%	32.23%	12.31%	7/24/2025 (Estimated)
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$17.12B	$6.87	12.03	8.18	0.77	26.67%	45.35%	17.36%	7/29/2025 (Estimated)
PFE Pfizer	$8.03B	$1.38	17.30	8.05	0.64	12.62%	19.47%	8.09%	7/29/2025 (Estimated)

Latest AZN, MRK, ABT, and PFE Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
4/29/2025	Q1 2025	AZN AstraZeneca	$1.10	$1.24	+$0.14	$0.93	$13.71 billion	$13.59 billion
4/29/2025	Q1 2025	PFE Pfizer	$0.67	$0.92	+$0.25	$0.52	$14.43 billion	$13.72 billion
4/24/2025	Q1 2025	MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$2.16	$2.22	+$0.06	$2.01	$15.59 billion	$15.53 billion
4/16/2025	Q1 2025	ABT Abbott Laboratories	$1.07	$1.09	+$0.02	$0.76	$10.38 billion	$10.36 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ABT Abbott Laboratories	$2.36	1.76%	N/A	30.61%	54 Years
AZN AstraZeneca	$2.06	2.80%	N/A	82.73%	N/A
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$3.24	4.00%	N/A	47.16%	14 Years
PFE Pfizer	$1.72	7.05%	N/A	124.64%	16 Years

Latest AZN, MRK, ABT, and PFE Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
6/13/2025	ABT Abbott Laboratories	quarterly	$0.59	1.73%	7/15/2025	7/15/2025	8/15/2025
5/27/2025	MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	quarterly	$0.81	4.18%	6/16/2025	6/16/2025	7/8/2025
4/23/2025	PFE Pfizer	quarterly	$0.43	7.69%	5/9/2025	5/9/2025	6/13/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ABT Abbott Laboratories	0.32	1.60	1.14
AZN AstraZeneca	0.65	0.93	0.74
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	0.79	1.36	1.15
PFE Pfizer	0.63	1.00	0.73

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ABT Abbott Laboratories	75.18%
AZN AstraZeneca	20.35%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	76.07%
PFE Pfizer	68.36%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ABT Abbott Laboratories	0.46%
AZN AstraZeneca	N/A
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	0.13%
PFE Pfizer	0.06%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ABT Abbott Laboratories	115,000	1.74 billion	1.73 billion	Optionable
AZN AstraZeneca	83,500	3.10 billion	N/A	Optionable
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	69,000	2.51 billion	2.53 billion	Optionable
PFE Pfizer	83,000	5.69 billion	5.66 billion	Optionable

AZN, MRK, ABT, and PFE Headlines

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AZN, MRK, ABT, and PFE Company Descriptions

Abbott Laboratories NYSE:ABT

$133.99 -1.63 (-1.20%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$133.76 -0.23 (-0.17%)

As of 07:32 PM Eastern

Abbott Laboratories, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells health care products worldwide. It operates in four segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Medical Devices. The company provides generic pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, irritable bowel syndrome or biliary spasm, intrahepatic cholestasis or depressive symptoms, gynecological disorder, hormone replacement therapy, dyslipidemia, hypertension, hypothyroidism, Ménière's disease and vestibular vertigo, pain, fever, inflammation, and migraine, as well as provides anti-infective clarithromycin, influenza vaccine, and products to regulate physiological rhythm of the colon. It also offers laboratory and transfusion medicine systems in the areas of immunoassay, clinical chemistry, hematology, and transfusion; molecular diagnostics polymerase chain reaction instrument systems that automate the extraction, purification, and preparation of DNA and RNA from patient samples, and detect and measure infectious agents; point of care systems; cartridges for testing blood gas, chemistry, electrolytes, coagulation, and immunoassay; rapid diagnostics lateral flow testing products; molecular point-of-care testing for HIV, SARS-CoV-2, influenza A and B, RSV, and strep A; cardiometabolic test systems; drug and alcohol test, and remote patient monitoring and consumer self-test systems; and informatics and automation solutions for laboratories. In addition, the company provides pediatric and adult nutritional products; rhythm management, electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular, and structural heart devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases; diabetes care products, such as glucose and blood glucose monitoring systems; and neuromodulation devices for the management of chronic pain and movement disorders. Abbott Laboratories was founded in 1888 and is based in North Chicago, Illinois.

AstraZeneca NASDAQ:AZN

$73.55 -0.87 (-1.17%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$73.69 +0.14 (+0.20%)

As of 07:55 PM Eastern

AstraZeneca PLC, a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, manufacture, and commercialization of prescription medicines. The company's marketed products include Tagrisso, Imfinzi, Lynparza, Calquence, Enhertu, Orpathys, Truqap, Zoladex, Faslodex, Farxiga, Brilinta, Lokelma, Roxadustat, Andexxa, Crestor, Seloken, Onglyza, Bydureon, Fasenra, Breztri, Symbicort, Saphnelo, Tezspire, Pulmicort, Bevespi, and Daliresp for cardiovascular, renal, metabolism, and oncology. Its marketed products also comprise Vaxzevria, Beyfortus, Synagis, FluMist, Soliris, Ultomiris, Strensiq, Koselugo, and Kanuma for covid-19 and rare disease. The company serves primary care and specialty care physicians through distributors and local representative offices in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australasia. It has a collaboration agreement with Neurimmune AG to develop and commercialize NI006; BenevolentAI for drug discovery for systemic lupus erythematosus; and Absci Corporation for AI-driven drug discovery against an oncology target. The company was formerly known as Zeneca Group PLC and changed its name to AstraZeneca PLC in April 1999. AstraZeneca PLC was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Merck & Co., Inc. NYSE:MRK

$80.96 -0.75 (-0.91%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$80.64 -0.32 (-0.40%)

As of 07:59 PM Eastern

Merck & Co., Inc. is a health care company, which engages in the provision of health solutions through its prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, animal health, and consumer care products. It operates through the following segments: Pharmaceutical, Animal Health, and Other. The Pharmaceutical segment includes human health pharmaceutical and vaccine products. The Animal Health segment discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets animal health products, such as pharmaceutical and vaccine products, for the prevention, treatment and control of disease in livestock, and companion animal species. The Other segment consists of sales for the non-reportable segments of healthcare services. The company was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Rahway, NJ.

Pfizer NYSE:PFE

$24.40 -0.14 (-0.58%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$24.38 -0.02 (-0.07%)

As of 07:59 PM Eastern

Pfizer Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells biopharmaceutical products in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company offers medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular metabolic, migraine, and women's health under the Eliquis, Nurtec ODT/Vydura, Zavzpret, and the Premarin family brands; infectious diseases with unmet medical needs under the Prevnar family, Abrysvo, Nimenrix, FSME/IMMUN-TicoVac, and Trumenba brands; and COVID-19 prevention and treatment, and potential future mRNA and antiviral products under the Comirnaty and Paxlovid brands. It also provides medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, such as biosimilars for chronic immune and inflammatory diseases under the Xeljanz, Enbrel, Inflectra, Litfulo, Velsipity, and Cibinqo brands; amyloidosis, hemophilia, endocrine diseases, and sickle cell disease under the Vyndaqel family, Oxbryta, BeneFIX, Somavert, Ngenla, and Genotropin brands; sterile injectable and anti-infective medicines under the Sulperazon, Medrol, Zavicefta, Zithromax, and Panzyga brands; and biologics, small molecules, immunotherapies, and biosimilars under the Ibrance, Xtandi, Inlyta, Bosulif, Mektovi, Padcev, Adcetris, Talzenna, Tukysa, Elrexfio, Tivdak, Lorbrena, and Braftovi brands. In addition, the company involved in the contract manufacturing business. It serves wholesalers, retailers, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, pharmacies, individual provider offices, retail pharmacies, and integrated delivery systems. The company has collaboration agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Astellas Pharma US, Inc.; Merck KGaA; and BioNTech SE. Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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