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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
CLX Clorox	$131.90 -2.7%	$140.26	$127.60 ▼ $171.37	$16.26B	0.6	1.33 million shs	1.94 million shs
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$76.89 -1.4%	$82.44	$73.31 ▼ $134.63	$193.07B	0.43	12.50 million shs	11.87 million shs
VZ Verizon Communications	$43.77 -1.0%	$43.63	$37.59 ▼ $47.36	$184.56B	0.39	20.17 million shs	16.04 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
CLX Clorox	+0.53%	-0.68%	-2.91%	-10.20%	+0.52%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	+0.98%	+1.70%	-0.02%	-8.92%	-40.52%
VZ Verizon Communications	-0.20%	+3.73%	+0.46%	+5.17%	+10.17%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CLX Clorox	4.1856 of 5 stars	2.9	3.0	4.2	1.6	3.0	3.3	0.0
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	4.9985 of 5 stars	3.3	5.0	5.0	3.9	4.0	2.5	3.8
VZ Verizon Communications	4.7492 of 5 stars	2.3	3.0	5.0	3.5	3.9	2.5	1.9

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CLX Clorox	1.86	Reduce	$151.23	14.66% Upside
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	2.50	Moderate Buy	$109.19	42.00% Upside
VZ Verizon Communications	2.61	Moderate Buy	$47.41	8.31% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest MRK, VZ, and CLX Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
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
5/7/2025	CLX Clorox	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Underweight ➝ Underweight	$134.00 ➝ $129.00
5/6/2025	CLX Clorox	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Underperform ➝ Underperform	$140.00
5/6/2025	CLX Clorox	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$165.00 ➝ $150.00
5/6/2025	CLX Clorox	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$145.00 ➝ $142.00
5/6/2025	CLX Clorox	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$151.00 ➝ $144.00
4/28/2025	VZ Verizon Communications	Tigress Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$55.00 ➝ $56.00
4/23/2025	VZ Verizon Communications	Scotiabank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$48.50 ➝ $49.00
4/22/2025	MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	Cantor Fitzgerald Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral	$85.00
4/17/2025	CLX Clorox	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$176.00 ➝ $154.00

(Data available from 5/21/2022 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
CLX Clorox	$7.02B	2.32	$6.99 per share	18.88	$0.98 per share	134.59
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$63.92B	3.02	$2.67 per share	28.82	$14.85 per share	5.18
VZ Verizon Communications	$135.29B	1.36	$9.12 per share	4.80	$23.89 per share	1.83

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
CLX Clorox	$280M	$5.57	36.04	18.52	2.62	6.38%	316.87%	15.29%	8/7/2025 (Estimated)
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$17.12B	$6.87	11.42	7.77	0.77	26.67%	45.35%	17.36%	7/29/2025 (Estimated)
VZ Verizon Communications	$17.51B	$4.20	10.57	9.01	4.45	12.99%	19.80%	5.08%	7/28/2025 (Estimated)

Latest MRK, VZ, and CLX Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/5/2025	Q3 2025	CLX Clorox	$1.57	$1.45	-$0.12	$1.50	$1.74 billion	$1.67 billion
4/24/2025	Q1 2025	MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$2.16	$2.22	+$0.06	$2.01	$15.59 billion	$15.53 billion
4/22/2025	Q1 2025 Pre Recorded	VZ Verizon Communications	$1.15	$1.19	+$0.04	$1.16	$33.31 billion	$33.50 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CLX Clorox	$4.88	3.70%	+1.92%	87.61%	47 Years
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	$3.24	4.21%	+5.73%	47.16%	14 Years
VZ Verizon Communications	$2.71	6.19%	+1.93%	64.52%	20 Years

Latest MRK, VZ, and CLX Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
2/25/2025	CLX Clorox	quarterly	$1.22	3.11%	4/23/2025	4/23/2025	5/9/2025
2/28/2025	VZ Verizon Communications	quarterly	$0.6775	6.29%	4/10/2025	4/10/2025	5/1/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CLX Clorox	20.52	0.94	0.60
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	0.79	1.36	1.15
VZ Verizon Communications	1.21	0.63	0.59

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CLX Clorox	78.53%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	76.07%
VZ Verizon Communications	62.06%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CLX Clorox	0.57%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	0.13%
VZ Verizon Communications	0.10%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CLX Clorox	9,000	123.25 million	122.49 million	Optionable
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.	69,000	2.51 billion	2.53 billion	Optionable
VZ Verizon Communications	117,100	4.22 billion	4.21 billion	Optionable

MRK, VZ, and CLX Headlines

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White Knight Strategic Wealth Advisors LLC Grows Stock Holdings in Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)

May 21 at 8:12 AM | marketbeat.com

Nationale Nederlanden Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne S.A. Sells 34,709 Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)

May 21 at 7:39 AM | marketbeat.com

UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC Buys 4,568,518 Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)

May 21 at 7:18 AM | marketbeat.com

USS Investment Management Ltd Lowers Stock Holdings in Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)

May 21 at 7:06 AM | marketbeat.com

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) Shares Sold by Wesleyan Assurance Society

May 21 at 6:42 AM | marketbeat.com

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) Shares Sold by Windsor Advisory Group LLC

May 21 at 6:18 AM | marketbeat.com

Woodline Partners LP Invests $55.71 Million in Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)

May 21 at 6:17 AM | marketbeat.com

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) Shares Purchased by Vident Advisory LLC

May 21 at 5:59 AM | marketbeat.com

Verizon Business report reveals tech investments propel SMBs towards greater efficiency and growth

May 21 at 12:37 AM | bizjournals.com

Verizon agrees to end DEI policies to acquire Frontier Communications in $20B deal

May 21 at 12:37 AM | bizjournals.com

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May 20 at 12:15 PM | insidermonkey.com

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May 20 at 6:47 AM | marketbeat.com

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May 20 at 6:16 AM | marketbeat.com

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) Position Decreased by Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC

May 20 at 5:42 AM | marketbeat.com

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May 20 at 1:46 AM | marketbeat.com

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MRK, VZ, and CLX Company Descriptions

Clorox NYSE:CLX

$131.90 -3.61 (-2.67%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$132.05 +0.15 (+0.12%)

As of 07:57 PM Eastern

The Clorox Company manufactures and markets consumer and professional products worldwide. It operates through four segments: Health and Wellness, Household, Lifestyle, and International. The Health and Wellness segment offers cleaning products, such as laundry additives and home care products primarily under the Clorox, Clorox2, Scentiva, Pine-Sol, Liquid-Plumr, Tilex, and Formula 409 brands; professional cleaning and disinfecting products under the CloroxPro and Clorox Healthcare brands; professional food service products under the Hidden Valley brand; and vitamins, minerals and supplement products under the RenewLife, Natural Vitality, NeoCell, and Rainbow Light brands in the United States. The Household segment provides cat litter products under the Fresh Step and Scoop Away brands; bags and wraps under the Glad brand; and grilling products under the Kingsford brand in the United States. The Lifestyle segment offers dressings, dips, seasonings, and sauces primarily under the Hidden Valley brand; natural personal care products under the Burt's Bees brand; and water-filtration products under the Brita brand in the United States. The International segment provides laundry additives; home care products; water-filtration systems; digestive health products; grilling products; cat litter products; food products; bags and wraps; natural personal care products; and professional cleaning and disinfecting products internationally primarily under the Clorox, Ayudin, Clorinda, Poett, Pine-Sol, Glad, Brita, RenewLife, Ever Clean and Burt's Bees brands. It sells its products primarily through mass retailers; grocery outlets; warehouse clubs; dollar stores; home hardware centers; drug, pet, and military stores; third-party and owned e-commerce channels; and distributors, as well as a direct sales force The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Merck & Co., Inc. NYSE:MRK

$76.89 -1.08 (-1.39%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$76.90 +0.01 (+0.01%)

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.

Verizon Communications NYSE:VZ

$43.77 -0.45 (-1.01%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$43.81 +0.04 (+0.08%)

As of 07:59 PM Eastern

Verizon Communications Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of communications, technology, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental entities worldwide. It operates in two segments, Verizon Consumer Group (Consumer) and Verizon Business Group (Business). The Consumer segment provides wireless services across the wireless networks in the United States under the Verizon and TracFone brands and through wholesale and other arrangements; and fixed wireless access (FWA) broadband through its wireless networks, as well as related equipment and devices, such as smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and other wireless-enabled connected devices. The segment also offers wireline services in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, as well as Washington D.C. through its fiber-optic network, Verizon Fios product portfolio, and a copper-based network. The Business segment provides wireless and wireline communications services and products, including FWA broadband, data, video and conferencing, corporate networking, security and managed network, local and long-distance voice, and network access services to deliver various IoT services and products to businesses, government customers, and wireless and wireline carriers in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Bell Atlantic Corporation and changed its name to Verizon Communications Inc. in June 2000. Verizon Communications Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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