{"id":28006,"date":"2012-03-07T05:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28006"},"modified":"2012-03-07T05:32:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:32:33","slug":"merck-sees-q1-eps-below-estimates-mrk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/07\/merck-sees-q1-eps-below-estimates-mrk\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck Sees Q1 EPS Below Estimates (MRK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vc7fb8ce0b82e6125f97ece20b10ec7d1816705dd&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vc7fb8ce0b82e6125f97ece20b10ec7d1816705dd&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>3-6-12-Merck (NYSE:MRK) announced that it sees Q1 EPS of $0.95 &#8211; $0.98, vs. estimates of $1.01.The company reaffirmed its 2012 adjusted EPS range of $3.75 &#8211; $3.85.and said it expects currency to hurt sales by 1% &#8211; 2% in the first quarter.It also expects annual revenue to be at or near 2011 levels on constant currency basis, down 2% &#8211; 3% at current exchange levels.Merck sees an adjusted tax rate of 2% &#8211; 25%.SmarTrend is bullish on shares of Merck and our subscribers were alerted to buy on November 30, 2011 at $35.50. The stock has risen 8.3% since the alert was issued.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/07\/1_ixbt77qj_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/07\/1_ixbt77qj_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3-6-12-Merck (NYSE:MRK) announced that it sees Q1 EPS of $0.95 &#8211; $0.98, vs. estimates of $1.01.The company reaffirmed its 2012 adjusted EPS range of $3.75 &#8211; $3.85.and said it expects currency to hurt sales by 1% &#8211; 2% in the first quarter.It also expects annual revenue to be at or near 2011 levels on constant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/07\/merck-sees-q1-eps-below-estimates-mrk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merck Sees Q1 EPS Below Estimates (MRK)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}