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	Merck & Co., Inc.	Pfizer	Abbott Laboratories	Eli Lilly and	AbbVie
Symbol	NYSE:MRK	NYSE:PFE	NYSE:ABT	NYSE:LLY	NYSE:ABBV
Price Information
Current Price	$73.14	$34.22	$119.60	$203.08	$106.59
52 Week Range	Buy	Hold	Buy	Buy	Buy
MarketRank™
Overall Score	2.4	2.6	2.4	2.1	2.8
Analysis Score	3.4	3.1	2.4	2.4	1.4
Community Score	2.5	2.9	2.8	2.8	2.9
Dividend Score	2.5	3.3	3.3	2.5	5.0
Ownership Score	1.7	1.7	1.7	1.7	1.7
Earnings & Valuation Score	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.3	3.1
Analyst Ratings
Consensus Recommendation	Buy	Hold	Buy	Buy	Buy
Consensus Price Target	$95.36	$39.53	$121.83	$192.60	$115.50
% Upside from Price Target	30.38% upside	15.53% upside	1.87% upside	-5.16% downside	8.36% upside
Trade Information
Market Cap	$184.31 billion	$186.26 billion	$217.07 billion	$195.65 billion	$190.45 billion
Beta	0.43	0.7	0.83	0.37	0.84
Average Volume	10,825,183	35,308,766	5,252,399	4,582,581	7,512,778
Sales & Book Value
Annual Revenue	$46.84 billion	$51.75 billion	$31.90 billion	$22.32 billion	$33.27 billion
Price / Sales	3.95	3.68	6.64	8.72	5.66
Cashflow	$5.94 per share	$3.81 per share	$5.36 per share	$7.75 per share	$9.96 per share
Price / Cash	12.31	8.97	22.31	26.19	10.70
Book Value	$10.21 per share	$11.46 per share	$17.70 per share	$2.81 per share	($5.53) per share
Price / Book	7.16	2.99	6.76	72.27	-19.27
Profitability
Net Income	$9.84 billion	$16.27 billion	$3.69 billion	$8.32 billion	$7.88 billion
EPS	$5.19	$2.95	$3.24	$6.04	$8.94
Trailing P/E Ratio	16.18	22.08	63.28	33.18	22.53
Forward P/E Ratio	12.05	11.18	27.31	25.45	8.76
P/E Growth	1.89	2.79	2.06	1.57	1.54
Net Margins	24.33%	17.85%	10.50%	24.01%	18.16%
Return on Equity (ROE)	53.83%	24.88%	18.19%	166.45%	439.24%
Return on Assets (ROA)	16.83%	9.32%	8.29%	15.18%	13.22%
Dividend
Annual Payout	$2.60	$1.56	$1.80	$3.40	$5.20
Dividend Yield	3.55%	4.56%	1.51%	1.67%	4.88%
Three-Year Dividend Growth	31.22%	-10.94%	35.85%	42.31%	84.37%
Payout Ratio	50.10%	52.88%	55.56%	56.29%	58.17%
Years of Consecutive Dividend Growth	1 Years	1 Years	49 Years	1 Years	49 Years
Debt
Debt-to-Equity Ratio	0.90%	0.76%	0.58%	3.27%	5.38%
Current Ratio	1.30%	1.40%	1.70%	1.36%	0.95%
Quick Ratio	1.00%	1.13%	1.19%	1.06%	0.81%
Ownership Information
Institutional Ownership Percentage	72.86%	67.36%	72.58%	75.59%	67.49%
Insider Ownership Percentage	0.28%	0.08%	1.70%	0.09%	0.09%
Miscellaneous
Employees	71,000	88,300	107,000	35,065	47,000
Shares Outstanding	2.53 billion	5.56 billion	1.77 billion	958.43 million	1.77 billion
Next Earnings Date	4/29/2021 (Confirmed)	4/27/2021 (Estimated)	4/15/2021 (Estimated)	4/27/2021 (Confirmed)	5/7/2021 (Estimated)
Optionable	Optionable	Optionable	Optionable	Optionable	Optionable

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