Merck closing in on deal for Acceleron

  • Merck KGaA (NYSE:MRK) is closing in a deal for Acceleron Pharma (NASDAQ:XLRN) that could be announced this week, The Wall Street Journal reports.
  • And that would mark one of Merck KGaA 's biggest ever, and a shoring up of its rare-disease business.
  • Acceleron is valued just under $11 billion after a sharp rise of more than 37% since Sept. 16. Merck KGaA 's market cap is just over $186 billion; at last report it had $8.6 billion in cash and $24 billion in long-term debt.

    For this year Merck KGaA & Co's (located in Kenilworth) revenue will be around 47.46 billion USD. This is according to the average of the analysts' estimates. This is slightly lower than 2021's revenue of 47.99 billion USD.

    Historical revenues and results Merck KGaA & Co plus estimates 2021

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    The analysts expect for 2021 a net profit of 14.34 billion USD. For this year the consensus of the result per share is a profit of 5.64 USD. Based on this the price/earnings-ratio is 14.3.

    Huge dividend Merck KGaA & Co

    For this year most of the analysts expect a dividend of 2.57 USD per share. Thus the dividend yield equals 3.19 percent. The average dividend yield of the pharmaceutical companies equals a limited 1.37 percent.

    Merck KGaA & Co's market capitalization is based on the number of outstanding shares around 204.8 billion USD. 9

    At 22.10 the stock trades 1.59 percent higher at 80.66 USD.

    Price data Merck KGaA & Co 2007-2021

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