20 Best Stocks to Buy According to Marjorie Taylor Greene

9. Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 91 

Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) operates as a healthcare company worldwide. Mandatory filings from April 11 show that Taylor Greene purchased Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) stock worth between $1.000 and $15,000 on April 9. This trade was made public the following day. Investors have been loading up on defensive stocks like Merck following the tech-sector rout because of new tariffs. In a recent investor note, David Bahnsen, chief investment officer of The Bahnsen Group, which oversees $7 billion in assets under management, named Merck among a basket of defensive stocks to consider, noting that the riskiest and most expensive parts of the market, including Big Tech, many of AI-related names and consumer discretionary sectors, will be hit in the current risk-off environment. Bahnsen further forecast that a Q2 or Q3 recession was possible, as was a bear market.