LRGG yields 0.18% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
Combined, LRGG + MRK cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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LRGG focuses on large-capitalization US companies with strong growth potential, aiming to benefit from quality-driven stock selection while maximizing long-term growth opportunities. Stock selection targets companies with durable competitive advantages, employing a bottom-up qualitative approach. Factors considered include brand loyalty, proprietary technology, cost structure, ROC, management quality, and industry dynamics. Additionally, quantitative metrics evaluating profitability, capital intensity, capital allocation measures, cash flow, and valuation are blended into the selection process. This approach identifies approximately 100 companies forming the Issuers definition of a Franchise Growth Universe, from which the fund typically selects 15 to 25 companies. Positions may be sold in response to shifts in industry dynamics, loss of competitive edge, ineffective management, or limited upside potential. Effective Dec. 1, 2025, Macquarie in the funds name was replaced with Nomura.
Full LRGG 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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