Sometimes all you have time for in the morning is a quick look at where your favorite stock is trading. That's why here we put together all your key Merck stock info for today, June 24, 2017. You'll also get an overall picture of how MRK stock has traded over the past year. First we'll look at where MRK stock ended the last trading session: $66.16. Merck shares rose 0.21% or $0.14 from the previous day's close. To put this latest Merck closing price in perspective, here's a look at where the MRK share price has traded in the past year... MRK is now trading above where it was one-year ago, with the share price having risen by 14.70%.

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The Merck stock price 52-week high is $66.80. That was hit on 3/01/2017. The MRK stock 52-week low is $55.10, reached on 6/27/2016. Another number to look at - MRK trading volume yesterday was 13,441,899. That's not as much as Merck stock's average daily trading volume of 14,112,066. Merck's market capitalization - the amount of shares outstanding times the share price - is 180,958,192,000. That gives Merck a large market cap, because it's between 10 billion and 200 billion. As of the start of April 2016, Apple has the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of Merck stock is 17.36. That's less than the March 2016 S&P 500 P/E ratio of about 23. To really gauge if this stock's P/E is high or low, you should compare MRK to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of MRK is 2.19. Beta - how closely the stock trades with the overall market, with a beta of 1 meaning it trades in step with the broader index -- for Merck is 0.86. Merck stock has a dividend yield of 2.85%. Most income investors look for "dividend stocks" that have a yield of 2% or more, but there are different factors that affect the health of a company's payout. Every day we publish Merck stock news and coverage on a handful of other key stocks we're watching now so you can maximize profits. To get new info and stock news on MRK and other companies you are interested in, sign up for Money Morning - it's free.

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