What changed 10-K

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity

2024-02-26 compared with 2023-02-24 · 6 added, 1 removed, 33 unchanged (18% of the section changed)

13 unchanged sentences

November 1 — November 30 1,395,457

$102.30 1,395,457

December 1 — December 31 1,100,500

(1) The Company did not purchase any shares during the three months ended December 31, 2022 under the plan approved by the Board of Directors in October 2018 to purchase up to $10 billion in Merck shares for its treasury.

$104.84 1,100,500

Total 3,805,381 $103.36 3,805,381

(1) All shares purchased during the period were made as part of a plan approved by the Board of Directors in October 2018 to purchase up to $10 billion in Merck shares for its treasury.

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In addition, the Performance Graph will not be deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulation 14A or 14C, other than as provided in Regulation S-K, or to the liabilities of section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except to the extent that the Company specifically requests that such information be treated as soliciting material or specifically incorporates it by reference into a filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.

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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.