VAIAF yields 1.44% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
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Vaisala Oyj engages in the weather and environmental, and industrial measurement business serving weather related and industrial markets. The company's products include industrial measurement systems, such as HVAC and indoor air meters, industrial transmitters, power transformer monitoring systems, probes and OEM modules, handheld meters, in-line process refractometers, biogas monitoring systems, liquid measurement systems, and viewLinc continuous monitoring systems. It also provides weather and environmental solutions, such as automatic weather stations, radiosondes and sounding systems, weather and environmental sensors, weather radars, wind lidars, visibility and present weather sensors, ceilometers, lightning sensors, air quality sensors, and road state sensors, as well as pressure, temperature, and humidity sensors; and operates an online store. In addition, the company offers maintenance, calibration and repair, and modernization services, as well as extended warranties and data-based solutions. Vaisala Oyj serves various industrial customers, including data centers, chemicals and allied products, fuel cells, power transformers, semiconductors, automotive, cleanrooms, HVAC and indoor air, warehouses, battery manufacturing, compressed air, life sciences and pharmaceutical, sugar, sweeteners, biogas, and research facilities and metrology; pulp, paper, and wood; food, beverages, and agriculture; and oil and gas refineries, and petrochemicals. It also serves weather-dependent markets mainly meteorology, ground transportation, aviation, maritime, renewable and wind energy, and urban weather and environment. The company has operations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South Americas, and the Asia Pacific. Vaisala Oyj was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in Vantaa, Finland.
Full VAIAF 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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