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Merck & Co., Inc.
MRK · NYSE · ·
Next earnings: October 29, 2026 · before the open
$149.29+0.4%Sep 29 close
- 1M
- +1.2%
- 6M
- +28.1%
- 1Y
- +83.1%
- 5Y
- +137.1%
Merck makes prescription medicines and vaccines for people, and medicines, vaccines and monitoring products for animals.
The dividend
Merck & Co., Inc. pays its shareholders every quarter.
Paid out each year as a share of the share price
$0.84 every quarter
Every year we hold — the real record may be far longer
More than it earned — funded from elsewhere
Recent payments
- Jun 15, 2026$0.85
- Mar 16, 2026$0.85
- Dec 15, 2025$0.85
- Sep 15, 2025$0.81
- Jun 16, 2025$0.81
- Mar 17, 2025$0.81
- Dec 16, 2024$0.81
- Sep 16, 2024$0.77
- Jun 17, 2024$0.77
- Mar 14, 2024$0.77
- Dec 14, 2023$0.77
- Sep 14, 2023$0.73
- Jun 14, 2023$0.73
- Mar 14, 2023$0.73
- Dec 14, 2022$0.73
- Sep 14, 2022$0.69
- Jun 14, 2022$0.69
- Mar 14, 2022$0.69
- Dec 14, 2021$0.69
- Sep 14, 2021$0.65
- Jun 14, 2021$0.65
- Mar 12, 2021$0.65
- Dec 14, 2020$0.65
- Sep 14, 2020$0.61
Dated by ex-dividend day — the day you must already own the shares to be paid.
A dividend is not a promise. Companies cut them, and a high yield is often a share price that has fallen rather than a payment that has risen. This describes what has been paid, not what will be.
Payments come from the corporate-actions record rather than from the filings. The XBRL tag for dividends covers only about a fifth of filers and arrives in a zoo of units, so the actual per-share cash — dated, with one-off specials flagged — is the more reliable source. The filings still answer whether earnings cover the payment.
The annual figure is the last 4 regular payments, not a rolling 365 days. A year-long window catches three payments or five depending on where its boundary lands — Exxon’s misses an August ex-date by two days and understates the yield by a quarter — so the count is what is summed, and a partial set publishes nothing rather than a low number.