SJLD yields 4.01% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
Combined, SJLD + MRK cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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SJLD primarily invests in short-term, investment-grade debt, with a focus on maintaining an average portfolio duration of two years or less. The strategy aims to optimize liquidity, manage risks, and provide stable, low-risk returns in a fluctuating interest rate environment. Portfolio selection emphasizes credit quality, liquidity, and sensitivity to interest rate changes. While the fund primarily invests in US government debt, it can allocate up to 5% of its assets to higher-risk securities, such as junk bonds and unrated debt. Additionally, the fund may hold cash equivalents and various fixed- and floating-rate instruments, including commercial paper, municipal securities, and repurchase agreements backed by government securities.
Full SJLD 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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