$1,000 invested Merck & Co. Inc. (2016)
NYSE · MRK · reinvest dividends · adjusted close
●Result2016-01-04 — 2026-08-28
Today you would have
$4,065
+$3,065 (+306.52%)
MRKSPY (benchmark)
- Entry price
- $36.49
- Current price
- $148.35
- Shares
- 27.4026
- CAGR
- +14.08%
- Max Drawdown
- -43.44%
- vs SPY
- -46.29 pp
✦The story
Putting $1,000 into Merck & Co. in early 2016 would have produced $4,065 by mid-2026, a gain of +306.5%. Over that decade, Keytruda grew into one of the world's best-selling cancer therapies and became the company's central growth driver. The broader S&P 500 nonetheless did better, returning +352.8% over the same period.
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