KDVD yields 0.76% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
Combined, KDVD + MRK cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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KDVD seeks total returns by investing primarily in US small- and mid-cap companies that pay dividends or are expected to begin doing so. Investments span the entire dividend spectrum, including established high-yield businesses, steady dividend growers, and companies likely to initiate dividends, or initiate payouts or return cash through buybacks. The fund uses fundamental research supported by a deep team of sector analysts to identify stocks trading below their intrinsic value. It also evaluates factors such as earnings expectations, dividend sustainability, balance-sheet strength, management quality, and potential catalysts that could unlock additional value. The fund generally holds securities for more than a year but may sell positions when fundamentals deteriorate, the position becomes overweight, or more compelling opportunities emerge.
Full KDVD 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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