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| About Merck & Co Inc |
| Merck & Co. is a global health care company that delivers health solutions through its prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products. Co.'s reportable segments are: the Pharmaceutical and Animal Health. The Pharmaceutical segment includes human health pharmaceutical and vaccine products. The Animal Health segment discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a range of veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines and health management solutions and services, as well as a suite of digitally connected identification, traceability and monitoring products. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our coverage of MRK's shares outstanding history. Understanding the changing numbers of MRK shares outstanding — and comprehending the concept of differing number of shares outstanding in general comparing companies like MRK versus peers — is critical for investors. Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies. Furthermore, via issuance of new shares over time, or the repurchase of existing shares, the number of shares outstanding can fluctuate over the course of history. With this page we aim to empower investors researching MRK by allowing them to research MRK shares outstanding history as well as any other stock in our coverage universe. |
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