The continued decline of Merck & Co.’s HPV vaccine Gardasil in China has come to a head as the New Jersey drug giant is halting shipments to the world’s second-most populous country.

Merck’s Q4 sales rose 7% YoY to $15.62B, slightly beating the $15.49B consensus. Adjusted EPS jumped to $1.72, topping estimates of $1.62. Keytruda sales grew 19% YoY to $7.84B, while Gardasil ...

For the recently completed fourth quarter, Merck booked an adjusted profit of $1.72 per share on $15.6 billion in revenue. Sales of top-selling cancer treatment Keytruda climbed 19% to $7.84 billion.

Shares of Merck slid Tuesday after the drugmaker surprised Wall Street with a lower-than-expected 2025 sales forecast due partly to a pause in shipments of one of its top-selling products to China.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Merck shares tumbled after the drugmaker said it was halting shipments of a top-selling vaccine to China to ...

Merck (MRK) stock was mangled today after the pharmaceutical and vaccine company released its guidance for 2025. The company expects adjusted earnings per share for the year to range from $8.88 to ...

Merck achieved revenue growth in Q4, but stocks tumbled Tuesday amid news that the company is pausing Gardasil shipments to China. © 2024 Fortune Media IP Limited ...

The pause announcement comes a month after Merck received approval in China for use of the vaccine in males. “We believe China still represents a significant, long-term opportunity for Gardasil ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Merck scientist conducts research on Feb. 28, 2013, in West Point, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File ...

Merck booked just under $600 million last year in alliance revenues from the pair, but its attention is now moving to new therapies including sotatercept, a TGF-beta-targeting PAH drug Merck ...

In October, Merck took up an option on the personalised RNA-based cancer vaccine with an upfront payment of $250 million as part of a collaboration first agreed in 2016 and expanded in 2018.