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CompanyCurrent Price50-Day Moving Average52-Week RangeMarket CapBetaAvg. VolumeToday's Volume
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
$122.97
-2.8%
$124.33
$106.69
$247.44
$14.45B1.653.08 million shs1.75 million shs
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
$200.98
-2.2%
$195.50
$178.82
$263.90
$40.64B0.331.93 million shs1.20 million shs
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
$131.10
$127.78
$99.14
$133.10
$332.05B0.398.00 million shs6.83 million shs
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Price Performance

Company1-Day Performance7-Day Performance30-Day Performance90-Day Performance1-Year Performance
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
-0.16%-0.79%+12.63%+7.02%-41.46%
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
-0.84%+0.09%+10.34%+6.23%-21.65%
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
+0.24%-0.49%+3.28%+1.42%+15.74%

MarketRank™

CompanyOverall ScoreAnalyst's OpinionShort Interest ScoreDividend StrengthESG ScoreNews and Social Media SentimentCompany OwnershipEarnings & Valuation
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
4.8705 of 5 stars
4.21.04.20.62.52.53.1
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
4.266 of 5 stars
2.15.04.21.92.81.71.3
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
4.5647 of 5 stars
2.35.03.34.12.81.71.3

Analyst Ratings

CompanyConsensus Rating ScoreConsensus RatingConsensus Price Target% Upside from Current Price
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
2.37
Hold$165.1634.31% Upside
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
2.17
Hold$213.066.01% Upside
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
2.58
Moderate Buy$131.330.18% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest MRK, HSY, and ALB Analyst Ratings

DateCompanyBrokerageActionRatingPrice TargetDetails
5/21/2024
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
Scotiabank
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Reiterated RatingSector Outperform ➝ Sector Perform$150.00 ➝ $135.00
5/7/2024
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft
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Boost Price TargetHold ➝ Hold$125.00 ➝ $140.00
5/6/2024
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
Scotiabank
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Lower Price TargetSector Outperform ➝ Sector Outperform$160.00 ➝ $150.00
5/6/2024
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
Royal Bank of Canada
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Boost Price TargetOutperform ➝ Outperform$138.00 ➝ $157.00
5/6/2024
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
Wells Fargo & Company
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Boost Price TargetEqual Weight ➝ Equal Weight$200.00 ➝ $205.00
5/2/2024
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
Mizuho
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Boost Price TargetNeutral ➝ Neutral$112.00 ➝ $128.00
4/26/2024
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
Truist Financial
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Boost Price TargetBuy ➝ Buy$142.00 ➝ $143.00
4/19/2024
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
Edward Jones
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Reiterated RatingBuy ➝ Hold
4/18/2024
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
Cantor Fitzgerald
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Reiterated RatingOverweight ➝ Overweight$135.00
4/17/2024
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
Wells Fargo & Company
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Lower Price TargetEqual Weight ➝ Equal Weight$205.00 ➝ $200.00
4/15/2024
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
Piper Sandler
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Lower Price TargetNeutral ➝ Neutral$200.00 ➝ $179.00
(Data available from 5/23/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

CompanyAnnual RevenuePrice/SalesCashflowPrice/CashBook ValuePrice/Book
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
$9.62B1.50$25.25 per share4.87$81.38 per share1.51
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
$11.16B3.64$11.34 per share17.73$20.32 per share9.89
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
$60.12B5.52$3.05 per share42.98$15.96 per share8.21

Profitability & Earnings

CompanyNet IncomeEPSTrailing P/E RatioForward P/E RatioP/E GrowthNet MarginsReturn on Equity (ROE)Return on Assets (ROA)Next Earnings Date
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
$1.57B$2.7544.7217.692.534.02%14.53%7.62%8/7/2024 (Estimated)
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
$1.86B$10.0919.9220.664.6418.13%50.15%16.67%7/25/2024 (Estimated)
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
$365M$0.90145.6713.221.673.76%14.05%5.24%8/6/2024 (Estimated)

Latest MRK, HSY, and ALB Earnings

DateQuarterCompanyConsensus EstimateReported EPSBeat/MissGap EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueDetails
5/3/2024Q1 24
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
$2.74$3.07+$0.33$2.25$3.11 billion$3.25 billion      
5/2/2024Q1 2024
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
$0.35$0.26-$0.09$0.60$1.29 billion$1.36 billion      
4/25/2024Q1 2024
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
$1.94$2.07+$0.13$2.27$15.21 billion$15.78 billion    

Dividends

CompanyAnnual PayoutDividend Yield3-Year Dividend GrowthPayout RatioYears of Consecutive Growth
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
$1.601.30%+1.28%58.18%29 Years
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
$5.482.73%+12.21%54.31%15 Years
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
$3.082.35%+6.08%342.22%13 Years

Latest MRK, HSY, and ALB Dividends

AnnouncementCompanyPeriodAmountYieldEx-Dividend DateRecord DatePayable Date
5/7/2024
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
quarterly$0.401.22%6/14/20246/14/20247/1/2024
5/2/2024
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
quarterly$1.372.8%5/16/20245/17/20246/14/2024
(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

CompanyDebt-to-Equity RatioCurrent RatioQuick Ratio
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
0.37
2.84
1.91
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
0.92
0.97
0.64
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
0.77
1.25
0.99

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

CompanyInstitutional Ownership
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
92.87%
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
57.96%
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
76.07%

Insider Ownership

CompanyInsider Ownership
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
0.38%
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
0.34%
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
0.09%

Miscellaneous

CompanyEmployeesShares OutstandingFree FloatOptionable
Albemarle Co. stock logo
ALB
Albemarle
9,000117.53 million117.08 millionOptionable
The Hershey Company stock logo
HSY
Hershey
20,505202.23 million201.54 millionOptionable
Merck & Co., Inc. stock logo
MRK
Merck & Co., Inc.
72,0002.53 billion2.53 billionOptionable

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Company Descriptions

Albemarle logo

Albemarle

NYSE:ALB
Albemarle Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets engineered specialty chemicals worldwide. It operates through three segments: Energy Storage, Specialties and Ketjen. The Energy Storage segment offers lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, and lithium chloride; technical services for the handling and use of reactive lithium products; and lithium-containing by-products recycling services. The Specialties segment provides bromine-based specialty chemicals, including elemental bromine, alkyl and inorganic bromides, brominated powdered activated carbon, and other bromine fine chemicals; lithium specialties, such as butyllithium and lithium aluminum hydride; develops and manufactures cesium products for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries; and zirconium, barium, and titanium products for pyrotechnical applications that include airbag initiators. The Ketjen segment offers clean fuels technologies (CFT), which is composed of hydroprocessing catalysts (HPC) together with isomerization and akylation catalysts; fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts and additives; and performance catalyst solutions (PCS), which is composed of organometallics and curatives. The company serves the energy storage, petroleum refining, consumer electronics, construction, automotive, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, and crop protection markets. Albemarle Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hershey logo

Hershey

NYSE:HSY
The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products and pantry items in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America Confectionery, North America Salty Snacks, and International. It offers chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products; gum and mint refreshment products, including mints, chewing gums, and bubble gums; protein bars; pantry items, such as baking ingredients, toppings, beverages, and sundae syrups; and snack items comprising spreads, bars, snack bites, mixes, popcorn, and pretzels. The company provides its products primarily under the Hershey's, Reese's, Kisses, Jolly Rancher, Almond Joy, Brookside, barkTHINS, Cadbury, Good & Plenty, Heath, Kit Kat, Payday, Rolo, Twizzlers, Whoppers, York, Ice Breakers, Breath Savers, Bubble Yum, Lily's, SkinnyPop, Pirates Booty, Dot's Homestyle Pretzels, and ONE Bar brands, as well as under the Pelon Pelo Rico, IO-IO, and Sofit brands. It markets and sells its products to wholesale distributors, chain grocery stores, mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, vending companies, wholesale clubs, convenience stores, dollar stores, concessionaires, and department stores. The company exports its products in approximately 80 countries worldwide. The Hershey Company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Merck & Co., Inc. logo

Merck & Co., Inc.

NYSE:MRK
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. The company serves drug wholesalers and retailers, hospitals, and government agencies; managed health care providers, such as health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, and other institutions; and physicians, wholesalers, government entities, veterinarians, distributors, animal producers, farmers, and pet owners. It 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. 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.