SDVY yields 1.12% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
Combined, SDVY + MRK cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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The First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF, seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield (before the Fund's fees and expenses) of an index called the Nasdaq US Small Mid Cap Rising Dividend Achievers Index (the "Index"). The Fund will normally invest at least 90% of its net assets (including investment borrowings) in securities that comprise the Index. The Index is comprised of a selection of small and mid-cap companies that have a history of raising their dividends and that exhibit the characteristics to potentially continue doing so in the future. The Index construction process considers a company's earnings growth, levels of cash compared to debt and the amount of earnings that are paid out as dividends.
Full SDVY 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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