MKKGY
Merck KGaA
Healthcare · Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic · PNK
$31.34
Data: 2026-05-15
✓ ETHICAL PASS

WEAK MOAT
HIGH
Data Confidence: 100.0%
Key Metrics

How this company measures up on the fundamentals that matter

Market Cap
$59.5B
Total market value of the company
19.99
Reasonably valued
13.07
Based on estimated future earnings — lower means cheaper
Rev Growth
-2.8%
Year-over-year revenue change
Profit Margin
12.1%
How much profit the company keeps from each dollar of revenue
8.5%
Return on equity — how efficiently it uses shareholder money
Analyst Target
$34.04
+9% from current price — median analyst estimate
Recommendation
STRONG_BUY
Consensus view from 2 analysts covering this stock
About Merck KGaA

Merck KGaA operates as a science and technology company in Europe, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The Life Science segment offers products, solutions, and services to academic, research and diagnostic labs, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as the industrial sector; reagents, consumables, devices, instruments, software, and services for research, production, and testing to lab water instruments, microbiology and biomonitoring products, test assays, analytical reagents, and flow cytometry kits and instruments. This segment also provides traditional and novel therapies, such as ration devices, chromatography resins, single-use systems, process chemicals, and excipients for bioprocessing; contract development, manufacturing and testing services, which supports customers from preclinical phases to commercialization. The Healthcare segment discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription drugs and biopharmaceuticals to the therapeutic areas of oncology, rare diseases, neurology and immunology, fertility, cardiovascular, and metabolic and endocrinological disorders. The Electronics segment offers advanced dielectric and metallic materials; photoresist, anti-reflective coating, and material lithography products; clean and selective etch chemistries; materials for chemical-mechanical planarization; high-purity gases for semiconductor manufacturing; and develops and installs delivery equipment for handling of specialty chemicals and gases for semiconductor manufacturing; develops modulating, creating, engineering, and guiding light; and material solutions in liquid crystals, OLED materials, and photoresists. It has in-licensing agreement with Abbisko Therapeutics Co. Ltd., China on drug candidates for the treatment of tenosynovial giant cell tumor. The company was founded in 1668 and is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany. Merck KGaA is a subsidiary of E. Merck KG.

https://www.emdgroup.com

Country: Germany Employees: 59,077 Industry: Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic
Ethical Screening

Five compliance checks based on AAOIFI standards — all must pass for ethical clearance

Business Activity
PASS
Core business does not involve prohibited activities
Debt Ratio
19.4% PASS
Debt must be below 33% of total assets
Cash Ratio
6.1% PASS
Interest-bearing cash below 33% of assets
Receivables
0.0% PASS
Receivables below 49% of assets
Revenue Purity
0.0% PASS
Non-compliant revenue below 5% — any excess requires purification
Valuation
$25.13
What our model estimates this business is worth per share
-24.7%
Trading above fair value — no margin of safety
Rating
OPPORTUNITY
Overall assessment combining ethics, valuation, and quality
99.0th
Ranks in the top 1% of our 13,571 screened universe
Ethical Score
90.4
Valuation Score
71.5
Quality Score
47.3
Combined
N/A

Trading at $27, 9% above fair value of $25. Passes all ethical screens. Ranks better than 92% of screened stocks.

Quantitative Intelligence

Statistical analysis of price behaviour, risk, and market regime — independent of fundamental data

MARKUP
Price trending up with increasing momentum
-0.128
Returns do not compensate for the risk — negative edge
-0.0175
No positive edge detected — the data suggests staying out
-0.206
Drawdown risk outweighs the returns — higher risk profile
Annual Return
-7.8%
Historical annualised return based on price data
-37.9%
Largest peak-to-trough decline — the worst it has been
SIDEWAYS
Price consolidating — no clear directional bias
Days in State
19
How long the current regime has persisted — longer means more stable
Market Data

Trading characteristics and market positioning

0.78
Less volatile than the market — more defensive
52W High
$31.00
-1% below the year high
52W Low
$23.73
32% above the year low
Avg Volume
142,427
Average daily shares traded — higher means easier to buy and sell
N/A
Days it would take all short sellers to cover — higher means more crowded
Short % Float
N/A
1.8%
Annual dividend as a percentage of the share price
$1.41
Earnings per share over the last 12 months
Financial Health

Balance sheet strength and cash generation — the foundation of long-term value

0.40
Conservative use of debt — low financial risk
1.52
Healthy liquidity position
Quick Ratio
0.92
Like current ratio but excludes inventory — stricter test
Gross Margin
58.9%
Revenue left after cost of goods — higher means pricing power
Operating Margin
18.2%
Profit from core operations before interest and tax
$3.1B
Positive — the business generates more cash than it spends
Revenue (TTM)
$21.0B
Total revenue over the last 12 months
Net Income
$2.5B
Profitable — the bottom line is positive
Analyst Coverage
Analysts
2
Target High
$34.08
Target Median
$34.04
Target Low
$34.00
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Data sourced from public filings and market feeds. Not financial advice. Updated: 2026-05-15

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