VSCSX yields 4.02% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
Combined, VSCSX + MRK cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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This low-cost index fund invests in U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable bonds issued by industrial, utility, and financial companies, with maturities between 1 and 5 years. Like other bond funds, one of the fund’s risks is that increases in interest rates cause the prices of the bonds in the portfolio to decrease; however, such risk is less pronounced in this fund than in funds with longer average durations. A key risk of the fund is the fact that changes in interest rates can eventually lead to a decrease in income for the fund. Investors with a short-term savings goal who are willing to accept some price movement may wish to consider this fund.
Full VSCSX 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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