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Why This Beaten-Down Stock Is a Buy in 2025 and Beyond

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Merck 's Keytruda generates over $20 billion in sales annually , an incredibly rare feat for a medicine.

While it will lose patent protection in 2028 , it should continue to grow its revenue until then.

Merck has earned more than 30 indications in the U.S. alone across various types of cancer.

It will take a while for ivonescimab to prove its worth in clinical trials across all these indications.

The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now and Merck wasn’t one of them.

The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years .

Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005 ... if you invested $ 1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $ 874,051 !.

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