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MRK Dividend Calculator
Merck & Co., Inc.. Project monthly, quarterly and annual income, DRIP compounding, break-even and a year-by-year table. Runs in your browser; the numbers you enter live in the page URL so you can share or bookmark a result.
Prefilled with a 2.37% reference yield at $143.79 · as of 2026-09-15 · StockAnalysis. Edit any field.
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About MRK
Merck & Co. (known as MSD outside North America) is a pharmaceutical company whose largest product is the cancer immunotherapy Keytruda, alongside the Gardasil vaccine, animal health and a pipeline of cardiovascular and oncology assets. Keytruda’s U.S. patent expiry in 2028 is a widely discussed factor. It pays a quarterly dividend.
Type stock Sector Healthcare · pharma Pays quarterly TTM dividend $3.40/share
How this calculator works
Shares bought is investment ÷ price. The dividend per share per payment is
price × yield ÷ 100 ÷ payments per year (4 for MRK). For every payment the
calculator pays shares × dividend per share; with DRIP on it buys
payment ÷ current price more shares, and any annual contribution is split evenly across
the year's payments and also buys shares. The growth assumptions are converted to a per-payment rate so
that they compound to the annual figure you enter. Break-even is the first month at which the
dividends received so far reach 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of the capital contributed to that point,
simulated out to 50 years. Yield on cost is the year's dividends divided by total capital contributed.
FAQ
- How much does MRK pay per share?
- As of 15 September 2026 the reference figures from StockAnalysis were a 2.37% trailing-twelve-month yield at a share price of $143.79, which works out to about $3.41 per share a year, paid quarterly (roughly $0.85 per quarter). The board sets each dividend, so check the issuer's latest declaration before relying on it.
- How many MRK shares would it take to earn $1,000 a month?
- At the reference yield of 2.37% you would need about 3,521 shares, roughly $506,329 at $143.79 a share, to receive $12,000 a year. Set the initial investment to that amount in the calculator to see the projection. A higher yield needs fewer shares; a lower yield needs more.
- What does the DRIP toggle change?
- With DRIP on, each dividend buys more MRK shares at the then-current price, so the next payment is slightly larger; the projection compounds 4 times a year. With DRIP off the dividends are counted as cash income and the share count only changes through your annual contributions.
- Is the MRK yield in the calculator the forward or trailing yield?
- The prefilled figure is the trailing-twelve-month yield reported by StockAnalysis: the last twelve months of dividends divided by the price on 15 September 2026. If Merck & Co., Inc. has announced a dividend change since then, the forward yield will differ; replace the yield with (latest quarterly dividend × 4) ÷ price to use the forward figure.
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Not financial advice. Reference figures as of 2026-09-15 from StockAnalysis; yields and prices change daily and dividends can be cut. Projections are arithmetic on your assumptions, not forecasts.