SJCP yields 4.41% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
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SJCP aims to generate income by investing in a broad range of fixed-income securities, primarily focusing on investment-grade US corporate and government bonds of varying maturities. The fund includes MBS, REITs, CLOs, CMOs, municipal securities, and preferred stocks. Portfolio selection combines top-down analysis, which assesses macroeconomic trends such as interest rates and market volatility, with bottom-up security selection based on credit quality and yield potential. The strategy seeks to balance returns with interest rate sensitivity, aiming for optimal performance while preserving capital and minimizing volatility. Although the fund primarily invests in investment-grade securities, it may allocate up to 5% of its assets to higher-risk securities, such as junk bonds and unrated debt. The fund maintains an average portfolio duration of up to ten years.
Full SJCP 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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