ZHOG yields 5.23% · MRK yields 2.76%● Live data
📍 MRK pulled ahead of the other in Year 2
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ZHOG aims to maximize total return through a value-based, unconstrained approach to investing in the US fixed-income market. It looks for undervalued government, corporate, and municipal debt securities, convertibles, commercial papers, mortgage- or asset-backed, preferred stocks, and cash equivalents. Positions are opportunistically initiated in response to changing market dynamics, political shifts, economic trends, interest rate changes, and credit risk analysis. However, during challenging markets, it may temporarily adopt a defensive position, resulting in limitless allocations to cash and prime cash equivalents. The fund invests in securities of any maturity and credit quality, with non-investment grades capped at 20%. The fund may enter lending transactions. Derivatives may also be used to enhance returns. Holdings are sold for more attractive securities or when the portfolio requires repositioning. Before January 2, 2026, the fund traded under the ticker XFIX.
Full ZHOG 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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