IIXIX yields 4.68% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
Combined, IIXIX + MRK cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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The investment seeks current income. The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in short-term U.S. corporate bonds issued by companies, including real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), whose executives are purchasing shares of the company's common stock. It may invest in corporate bonds of any credit quality, effective maturity or average modified duration, but the advisor intends to hold a majority of the portfolio in investment grade corporate bonds with an average effective maturity of less than four years and an average duration of less than three and a half years. The fund is non-diversified.
Full IIXIX 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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