Last updated 4 Aug 2026, 18:21 UTC · updated through the trading day
Merck Fear and Greed Index Today
The Merck Fear and Greed Index today is 48/100, showing Neutral. CFGI measures current Merck market sentiment using live market data and proprietary behavioural models. It has been Neutral for 6 days. Get the next update by email, free
Live Merck Fear and Greed Index
The Merck Fear and Greed Index today is 48/100 (Neutral), up from 42/100 (Neutral) yesterday and down 23 points from last week's reading of 71 (Greed).
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Live Merck Price and Sentiment Chart
Merck price colored by CFGI fear and greed sentiment over the selected daily range.
This daily chart compares Merck price movement with live fear, greed, neutral and extreme sentiment readings for the wider market trend.
During the last 896 days, Merck sentiment ranged from 13 (Extreme Fear) to 86 (Extreme Greed), with the current reading sitting at 48.
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What Is the Merck Fear and Greed Index Today?
The Merck Fear and Greed Index today shows whether the current Merck market is being driven by fear, neutrality or greed. It gives a live sentiment reading so traders can understand whether conditions are cautious, balanced or risk-on.
Current Merck Fear and Greed Index Value
The current Merck Fear and Greed Index value is measured from 0 to 100. Lower scores suggest fear, uncertainty or weak confidence in the Merck market, while higher scores suggest greed, confidence or stronger risk appetite.
- Daily Merck Fear and Greed Index: 48/100, showing Neutral for the wider market trend.
- 4-hour Merck Fear and Greed Index: 50/100, showing Neutral for the medium-term market trend.
- 1-hour Merck Fear and Greed Index: 59/100, showing Neutral for the short-term market trend.
- 15-minute Merck Fear and Greed Index: 43/100, showing Neutral for the intraday and day trading.
These multi-timeframe readings help compare long-term, medium-term, short-term and intraday Merck sentiment in one place.
What Does the Current Merck Fear and Greed Score Mean?
Neutral on the Merck Fear and Greed Index reflects a market without a strong bias in either direction. Neither fear nor greed is dominating. Traders typically read a Neutral zone as a period of consolidation or indecision, a moment to wait for a clearer directional signal before committing to high-conviction trades.
Is the Merck Fear and Greed Index a Buy or Sell Signal?
The Merck Fear and Greed Index is a market sentiment indicator, not a standalone buy or sell signal. Traders use it to understand whether fear, greed, neutral or extreme sentiment is present, then compare that reading with price action, liquidity and risk management.
Which Merck Fear and Greed Timeframe Should I Use?
Use the daily reading for the wider Merck market trend, the 4-hour reading for medium-term conditions, the 1-hour reading for short-term sentiment and the 15-minute reading for intraday moves. The best timeframe depends on how long you plan to hold or monitor the market.
How Often Is the Merck Fear and Greed Index Updated?
The Merck Fear and Greed Index updates through the US trading day across four timeframes (15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily) while the market is open, recalculated from MRK's price action and nine other signals.
How to Read the Merck Fear and Greed Index Chart
The Merck Fear and Greed Index chart shows how Merck sentiment has moved through different conditions over time. Use it to compare the current reading with previous periods of fear, greed, neutrality and extreme market conditions.
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How CFGI Calculates the Merck Fear and Greed Index
CFGI combines live Merck market signals into one fear and greed reading. The modules below show whether the current Merck score is being driven by price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity or order book pressure.
Ten signals, one number. Every signal is scored against this asset's own history, so a reading of greed means greedier than usual for this asset, never a raw comparison between one market and another.
Merck Fear and Greed Components
- Price Score: 55 (Neutral)
- Volatility Score: 27 (Fear)
- Volume Score: 31 (Fear)
- Impulse Score: 35 (Fear)
- Technical Score: 58 (Neutral)
- Social Score: 27 (Fear)
- Dominance Score: 35 (Fear)
- Search Score: 39 (Fear)
- Whale Score: 50 (Neutral)
- Order Book Score: 79 (Greed)
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Merck Market Sentiment Today
Merck market sentiment today is shaped by price action, volatility, trading volume, technical indicators, social activity and wider market behaviour. CFGI combines these signals to show how Merck sentiment is changing throughout the day.
Compare Merck with the whole-market reading on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index, or every company on the stock fear and greed directory.
What Is Merck?
Composure in a lab coat.
Merck is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, anchored by the cancer immunotherapy Keytruda and shadowed by the industry's oldest question: what replaces the blockbuster when its patents age. On the CFGI Merck fear and greed index the crowd's answer, so far, is a shrug of confidence, delivered with a composure most of the stock board cannot match.
The CFGI read: Across 273 scored days Extreme Fear barely troubled Merck. Its floor was 24 out of 100, Fear, on 22 April 2026 at $112.89, and even that came on a quiet board, 69 of 245 stocks in Fear or worse and just 4 in the extreme zone. The stranger detail sits at the other end: peak greed, 84 on 25 November 2025, arrived with the shares at $105.66, a lower price than the one that later worried the crowd. This is a crowd that prices direction, not level.
Merck Fear and Greed Index History
Q3 2026 breakdown. The table below updates daily.
The direction has been up. The shares bottomed at $77.60 on 25 September 2025, and five days later the score posted its biggest single-day gain, 33 points on 30 September, 36 to 69. Belief compounded into a 14-day run in Greed or better from 10 to 28 November 2025, capped by three straight days of Extreme Greed, and by the window's end the price had climbed 63.9% from $80.16 to $131.41, closing 24 July 2026 at its high with the score at 76, Greed.
The one sustained wobble, 12 days in Fear or worse from 15 to 30 April 2026 around that $112.89 floor, passed without a single extreme print. With 118 days in Neutral, 92 in Greed and 10 in Extreme Greed against 53 in Fear, Merck sits 219th of the stocks we track for time in Extreme Fear, one of the steadiest large crowds anywhere on the full crypto and stock Fear and Greed Index. Pharma is supposed to be defensive; this crowd actually behaves that way.
Days by zone, the last 365 days (250 readings)
| Extreme Fear | Fear | Neutral | Greed | Extreme Greed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme Fear: 0 | Fear: 44 | Neutral: 110 | Greed: 86 | Extreme Greed: 10 |
Source: CFGI dataset, 250 daily readings across the 365 days to 4 Aug 2026. Updates daily.
For the market Merck trades in, see the stock fear and greed index, which scores the whole US market on the same 0 to 100 scale.
Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) Stock Fundamentals, Analyst Ratings & Financials
Beyond the sentiment score: the fundamentals, analyst views and financials for Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK), for context alongside the live Fear and Greed reading above. Company data via Financial Modeling Prep.
About Merck & Co., Inc.
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Drug Manufacturers - General
- CEO
- Robert Davis
- Employees
- 75,000
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Headquarters
- Rahway, NJ, US
- Listed
- Jan 13, 1978
- Website
- www.merck.com
Key Stats & Valuation
- Market cap
- $318.0B
- P/E (TTM)
- 36.2
- P/B
- 6.94
- Net margin
- 13.62%
- Beta
- 0.21
- Dividend yield
- 2.61%
- 52-week range
- $78 – $135
- 89% of range
Analyst Ratings & Price Target
What Wall Street thinks: the consensus rating and average price target from 37 independent equity analysts covering MRK.
Ratings and price targets are aggregated from independent Wall Street analysts (data via Financial Modeling Prep). They are not investment advice or a recommendation from CFGI.
Earnings
Next earnings: Oct 29, 2026 · EPS estimate $2.27 per share.
| Reported | EPS actual | Estimate | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | $-0.13 | $-0.27 | +52% |
| Apr 30, 2026 | $-1.28 | $-1.47 | +13% |
| Feb 3, 2026 | $2.04 | $2.01 | +1% |
| Oct 30, 2025 | $2.58 | $2.36 | +9% |
EPS figures are earnings per share (USD), not total company profit.
Financials
Annual revenue, net income and earnings per share. “Growth” is year-over-year revenue.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Net income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $64.93B | +1% | $18.25B | $7.30 |
| 2024 | $64.17B | +7% | $17.12B | $6.76 |
| 2023 | $60.12B | +1% | $365.0M | $0.14 |
| 2022 | $59.28B | +22% | $14.52B | $5.73 |
| 2021 | $48.70B | +17% | $13.05B | $5.16 |
| 2020 | $41.52B | +6% | $7.07B | $2.79 |
| 2019 | $39.12B | -8% | $9.84B | $3.84 |
| 2018 | $42.29B | +5% | $6.22B | $2.40 |
| 2017 | $40.12B | +1% | $2.39B | $0.95 |
| 2016 | $39.81B | +1% | $3.92B | $2.07 |
| 2015 | $39.50B | -6% | $4.44B | $1.60 |
| 2014 | $42.24B | -4% | $11.92B | $4.20 |
| 2013 | $44.03B | -7% | $4.40B | $1.50 |
| 2012 | $47.27B | -2% | $6.17B | $2.20 |
| 2011 | $48.05B | +4% | $6.27B | $2.06 |
| 2010 | $45.99B | +68% | $861.0M | $0.28 |
| 2009 | $27.43B | +15% | $12.90B | $4.15 |
| 2008 | $23.85B | -1% | $7.81B | $3.65 |
| 2007 | $24.20B | +7% | $3.28B | $-1.04 |
| 2006 | $22.64B | +3% | $4.43B | $2.04 |
| 2005 | $22.01B | -4% | $4.63B | $2.11 |
| 2004 | $22.97B | +2% | $5.83B | $2.63 |
| 2003 | $22.49B | +5% | $6.83B | $2.97 |
| 2002 | $21.45B | +1% | $7.15B | $3.17 |
| 2001 | $21.20B | -47% | $7.28B | $3.18 |
| 2000 | $40.36B | +23% | $6.82B | $2.96 |
| 1999 | $32.71B | +22% | $5.89B | $2.51 |
| 1998 | $26.90B | +14% | $5.25B | $2.21 |
| 1997 | $23.64B | +19% | $4.61B | $1.92 |
| 1996 | $19.83B | +19% | $3.88B | $1.60 |
| 1995 | $16.68B | +11% | $3.34B | $1.35 |
| 1994 | $14.97B | +43% | $3.00B | $1.19 |
| 1993 | $10.50B | +9% | $2.17B | $0.94 |
| 1992 | $9.66B | +12% | $1.98B | $1.06 |
| 1991 | $8.60B | +12% | $2.12B | $0.92 |
| 1990 | $7.67B | +17% | $1.78B | $0.76 |
| 1989 | $6.55B | +10% | $1.50B | $0.63 |
| 1988 | $5.94B | +17% | $1.21B | $0.51 |
| 1987 | $5.06B | +23% | $906.4M | $0.37 |
| 1986 | $4.13B | — | $675.7M | $0.27 |
Bar = revenue; green grew, red fell vs the prior year.
Dividends
- Dividend yield
- 2.61%
- Last dividend
- $0.85
- Ex-date
- Sep 15, 2026
Merck Fear and Greed Index FAQ
What is the Merck Fear and Greed Index today?
The Merck Fear and Greed Index today is 48/100 on the daily view, showing Neutral. It summarizes live Merck market sentiment on a 0 to 100 scale.
How is the Merck Fear and Greed Index calculated?
CFGI combines price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity and order book pressure into one Merck fear and greed reading.
What is a good Merck Fear and Greed Index reading?
There is no single good reading, because the index measures mood rather than value. Extreme Fear below 25 marks the points where sentiment is most washed out, and Extreme Greed above 75 the points carrying the most risk, so what counts as good depends on whether you are buying or selling.
How accurate is the Merck Fear and Greed Index?
It reads sentiment accurately and predicts price poorly, and those are two different things. The score reflects what the Merck market feels right now across ten live inputs, so treat it as a risk gauge rather than a forecast: it tells you how one-sided the crowd has become, not what happens next.
What does the Merck Fear and Greed Index measure?
It measures the emotional state of the Merck market on a 0 to 100 scale, from extreme fear at 0 to extreme greed at 100. CFGI builds that number from ten indicators including price action, volatility, volume, momentum, technicals and social sentiment, rather than from price alone.
How do I use the Merck Fear and Greed Index?
Most people use it to size risk rather than to time entries. The extreme readings are the useful ones: they flag when the crowd has become one-sided, which is when caution costs least and greed costs most. Read it alongside price and volume, never on its own.
How often is the Merck Fear and Greed Index updated?
The Merck Fear and Greed Index is updated every 15 minutes, so the live reading can change as Merck market conditions shift.
What does a low Merck Fear and Greed score mean?
A low score (0 to 39) signals fear or extreme fear, where traders are cautious, risk-averse or pessimistic about the Merck market.
What does a high Merck Fear and Greed score mean?
A high score (60 to 100) signals greed or extreme greed, where confidence, risk appetite and bullish sentiment dominate the Merck market.
Can I get alerts when the Merck Fear and Greed Index changes?
Yes. CFGI alerts let you track Merck sentiment across daily, 4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute timeframes. Create alerts for fear, greed, extreme readings or specific Merck Fear and Greed Index score changes.
Can I add the Merck Fear and Greed Index to my website?
Yes. The CFGI widget lets you embed a live Merck Fear and Greed Index on your website, so visitors can see current Merck sentiment, live scores and market conditions without you building the data system yourself.
Can I use Merck Fear and Greed data in my own app or trading bot?
Yes. The CFGI API gives developers access to Merck sentiment data, multi-timeframe fear and greed scores and market signals for dashboards, trading bots, apps and research tools.
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About CFGI
The per-asset sentiment record.
CFGI is a market sentiment data company that scores crowd emotion from 0 to 100 across crypto and stock markets. Crypto readings cover the whole market and hundreds of individual assets across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views. The stock index gives a live daily reading for wider stock market sentiment.
Every CFGI score is built from 10 indicators: price, volatility, volume, impulse, technical analysis, social media, dominance, search interest, whale movements and order book pressure. The same data powers our API, alerts and embeddable widgets.