SPDG yields 2.93% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
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The State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P Sector Neutral Dividend ETF seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the S&P Sector-Neutral High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index (the "Index")The Index is designed to include large, mid and small-cap companies in the S&P Composite 1500 Index that have increased or maintained their dividend for seven or more consecutive years while seeking to mirror the sector weights of the S&P Composite 1500 IndexBy providing the potential for attractive income while seeking to track an index designed to mitigate the effect sector biases can have on dividend strategies relative returns to broader equity markets, SPDG is designed for income oriented buy-and-hold investors seeking a low cost, core dividend fund
Full SPDG 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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