5 Health Care Stocks to Buy Now

Health Care Stock #5 – Merck (MRK)

Our final healthy health care stock is Merck (MRK).  The pharmaceutical giant makes a bevy of well-known drugs, including Singulair, Fosamax and Gardasil.  One thing that sets Merck apart from its competition is the pipeline provided by its acquisition of Schering-Plough.  The company’s drug pipeline is a potential goldmine, and according to analysts who follow the firm, that pipeline could account for $5 billion to $6 billion in incremental annual revenues by 2015.

Like many of the well-funded health care stocks we’ve talked about here, the key to Merck’s continued profit potential is the company’s ability to keep coming out with products the public both needs and wants. The need to get well isn’t going to evaporate just because Washington rearranges the deck chairs on the health care ship. 

Merck and the other companies mentioned here will prevail regardless of government interference, and that makes them five healthy health care stocks every investor should consider.