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ValuEngine Upgrades Merck & Co. To aEUR~5' Rating

Posted on: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:39:00 EST

Symbols: MRK

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November 12, 2009 (FinancialWire) (Investrend Research Syndicate) -- ValuEngine, Inc. has upgraded Merck & Co Inc (NYSE: MRK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) to a "5" rating, the service's highest.

The ValuEngine Rating is an overall assessment of a stock's attractiveness. It combines the following five factors: ValuEngine's proprietary valuation, risk-return tradeoff, momentum, market capitalization and ValuEngine's proprietary forecasted one-month return. Approximately 80 to 85 companies achieve this highest ValuEngine rating out of VE's total coverage of over 5,000 publicly traded companies.

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