+0.0
net board stance
what this means
148.63
-1.1% · close 2026-09-08
+16% / +25% / +83%
1m / 3m / 12m
+23%
vs SPY since 2022-04-01
90%
of 52w range · -5.0% off high
—
hit rate as primary
Where we stand — 0 live ideas
No active idea holds this ticker. Anything below is history.
Where the winds are blowing
NET BOARD STANCE, LAST 60 EPISODES —
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PRICE VS SPY OVER THE SAME WINDOW, % — did the
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Who's pushing which way
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Track record on MRK
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| idea | call | play | verdict | R | α | closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 📈 Boosters + oral antivirals become the standard COVID stack | ▲ LONG | adjacent | HIT | +21.8% | +26.6 | 2022-07-30 |
| 🏛️ MFN drug-pricing EO compresses pharma profits and pushes R&D offshore | ▼ SHORT | adjacent | MISS | -40.2% | -65.9 | 2026-05-17 |
The tape — what was actually said
every capture on any idea holding MRK, newest first · quotes verbatim, timestamps deep-link into the episode
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Ben Shapiro
support ×2
▼ on
🏛️ MFN drug-pricing EO compresses pharma profits and pushes R&D offshore
E228 · 2025-05-17
▶ 1:30:48
So if you are talking about just artificially lowering prices by basically clocking Pharma, the reality is if you want to kill R&D, this is a great way to kill R&D.
Chamath
support ×3
▼ on
🏛️ MFN drug-pricing EO compresses pharma profits and pushes R&D offshore
E228 · 2025-05-17
▶ 1:28:43
You'll make 10 million bucks, which is not enough to fight this R&D battle. So if you then further affect the profitability scale of pharma, the impact is probably that we push R&D to different places.
Friedberg
oppose ×2
▲ on
📈 Boosters + oral antivirals become the standard COVID stack
E60 · 2021-12-23
▶ 37:35
I would be very cautious about the side effects that are going to arise from these protease inhibitors. ... I think as more people use them, you'll see more crazy stories about side effects that are really significantly adverse.
Sacks
support ×2
▲ on
📈 Boosters + oral antivirals become the standard COVID stack
E60 · 2021-12-23
▶ 36:41
These new pills have, I think, a very good shot of doing it next year because they're protease inhibitors. ... I am hopeful that this will be the thing, hopefully, that ends the pandemic next year, are these new antiviral pills.
Sacks
support ×2
▲ on
📈 Boosters + oral antivirals become the standard COVID stack
E57 · 2021-12-04
▶ 19:53
The only thing that seems to work is vaccines and booster shots. There's some good data around the third data, the third booster preventing serious cases.
Chamath
support ×3
▲ on
📈 Boosters + oral antivirals become the standard COVID stack
E49 · 2021-10-02
▶ 42:40
I think that the combination of vaccines and what is equivalently Tamiflu for COVID, which is effectively what this is, is the one-two punch we need so that this basically is rendered.
Friedberg
support ×1
▲ on
📈 Boosters + oral antivirals become the standard COVID stack
E49 · 2021-10-02
▶ 40:57
We don't yet know if it reduces the transmission rate. So there's a lot of question marks on like, does this actually solve the problem of the pandemic? It's certainly another instrument to blunt the, you know, the impact.
Jason
support ×1
▲ on
📈 Boosters + oral antivirals become the standard COVID stack
E42 · 2021-07-30
▶ 15:38
Give me the third shot of Pfizer. And then I opened up Drudge Report yesterday. And it's like third shot of vaccine, a Pfizer in Israel or whatever. They're just going to start giving people a third shot. Yeah, I just want to get ahead of the curve.
Sacks
support ×2
▲ on
📈 Boosters + oral antivirals become the standard COVID stack
E42 · 2021-07-30
▶ 16:08
there's one other piece of news that came out that I think is very positive on COVID, which is the availability of these oral antivirals, the pills. ... So I think that, you know, with the reduced effectiveness of vaccine, what we're going to have to do is supplement the vaccines and the boosters with home testing.