Merck (MRK) stock: return calculator
Merck & Co. (MRK) shares, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, listed in New York.
Updated
- Type
- Stocks
- Market
- NYSE
- Currency
- USD
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Data range
- 2016-07 – 2026-08 · 10 years
- Source
- Yahoo Finance
US$1,000 invested 10 years ago would be worth today
US$2,917
+191.7% total return
Try your own values in the calculators below.
Return calculator
Pick an amount and a period to see what an investment in Merck (MRK) would be worth today. By default we include reinvested dividends (total return).
Lump sum
What a one-off investment would be worth today.
Monthly investing (DCA)
What investing the same amount every month would be worth.
Estimate before taxes, fees and currency-conversion costs. Past performance does not guarantee future returns.
Investment growth
Performance
Data for the last 10 years · 2016-07 → 2026-08
Comparison with the market
US$1,000 invested vs S&P 500 ETF (SPY):
- Merck (MRK)
- US$3,122
- S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
- US$3,998
Merck (MRK) trailed S&P 500 ETF (SPY) over this period.
Risk & drawdowns
The largest peak-to-trough drop in the window was -39.7%. An investor who bought near the prior peak would have seen the investment fall significantly before recovering.
Scenarios
Illustrative results based on the available data.
US$1,000 5 years ago
US$1,970
lump sum, +97% return
US$100/mo for 5 years
US$8,584
invested US$6,100
If it repeats +12%/yr for 10 years
US$3,092
projection from US$1,000 (hypothetical)
About Merck (MRK)
Merck & Co. is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Its most important medicine is Keytruda, a cancer immunotherapy that is now one of the best-selling drugs on the planet and accounts for a huge share of revenue. It also has a strong vaccines business (such as Gardasil) and an animal-health division.
It trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker MRK and is part of the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices. It is a defensive, dividend-paying stock. An important distinction: in the United States and Canada it is called Merck & Co., but in the rest of the world it operates as MSD, because there the "Merck" name belongs to the German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA, a different business.
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Sources & methodology
Prices: Yahoo Finance. Monthly series, total return (dividends reinvested). Data through 2026-08-07.
Total return assumes dividends are reinvested; you can turn that off to see price-only appreciation. Values are estimates before taxes, fees and currency-conversion costs.
Page generated and reviewed by the Calculadora Capital editorial team. Last updated 2026-08-07.