BASV yields 0.43% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
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BASV invests in US large-cap companies using a proprietary approach that combines traditional valuation metrics with sustainability analysis. Stock selection targets those who generate stable free cash flow, exhibit strong financials, and trade at a discount to their intrinsic value. Key factors include earnings, cash flows, book value, sales, and growth relative to the companys history, industry, or the broader market. At the same time, integrating sustainability via the Sustainable Cash Flow Advantage (SCFA) framework, focusing on firms with strong practices in workforce management, operational efficiency, and products that drive environmental or social benefits. The fund typically holds 30 to 50 issuers. Up to 20% of the assets may be allocated to foreign securities, including emerging markets. Investments include common and preferred stocks, ADRs, REITs, convertibles, ETFs, BDCs, and private placements. The fund may hold undervalued cyclical companies.
Full BASV Calculator →Merck & Co., Inc. operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Pharmaceutical and Animal Health. The Pharmaceutical segment offers human health pharmaceutical products in the areas of oncology, hospital acute care, immunology, neuroscience, virology, cardiovascular, and diabetes, as well as vaccine products, such as preventive pediatric, adolescent, and adult vaccines. The Animal Health segment discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and health management solutions and services, as well as digitally connected identification, traceability, and monitoring products. It serves drug wholesalers and retailers, hospitals, and government agencies; managed health care providers, such as health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, and other institutions; and physicians and physician distributors, veterinarians, and animal producers. The company has collaborations with AstraZeneca PLC; Bayer AG; Eisai Co., Ltd.; Ridgeback Biotherapeutics; and Gilead Sciences, Inc. to jointly develop and commercialize long-acting treatments in HIV. Merck & Co., Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey.
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