VIAAX yields 2.20% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
Combined, VIAAX + MRK cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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This fund offers investors a low cost way to gain exposure to high-quality international companies that have both the ability and the commitment to grow their dividends over time. The fund seeks to track a modified market cap weighted benchmark of all-capitalization developed and emerging markets stocks outside the United States with a history of increasing annual dividend payments. Because it invests in non-U.S. stocks, the fund can be more volatile than a domestic fund. Another risk is the possibility that returns from dividend-paying stocks will trail returns from the overall stock market during any given period. This fund may be appropriate for long-term investors seeking some income and exposure to international dividend-focused companies.With respect to 75% of its total assets, the fund may not: (1) purchase more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any one issuer or (2) purchase securities of any issuer if, as a result, more than 5% of the fund’s total assets would be invested in that issuer’s securities; except as may be necessary to approximate the composition of its target index. This limitation does not apply to obligations of the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities.
Full VIAAX 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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