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Pfizer Inc.

Healthcare · Drug Manufacturers - General · United States

$28.00
-0.24% today
Mkt Cap
$159.61B
P/E
36.85×
Fwd P/E
9.67×
Div Yield
6.14%
Beta
0.28×
52W Range
85.6%
Company profileSource: provider

Pfizer Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells biopharmaceutical products in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Biopharma, PC1, and Pfizer Ignite. The company offers internal medicine products, including cardiovascular metabolic diseases products under the Eliquis brand; migraine products under the Nurtec ODT/Vydura and Zavzpret brand; vaccines under the Prevnar family, Abrysvo, Nimenrix, FSME/IMMUN-TicoVac, and Trumenba brands; and Paxlovid for the treatment of COVID-19. It also provides inflammation and immunology products, such as Xeljanz, Enbrel, Cibinqo, Litfulo, Eucrisa, and Velsipity; rare disease products for therapeutic areas comprising amyloidosis, hemophilia, and endocrine diseases under the Vyndaqel family, Genotropin, BeneFIX, Xyntha, Somavert, Ngenla, and Hympavzi brands; and anti-infective and immunoglobulin medicines under the Zavicefta, Octagam, and Panzyga brands. In addition, the company offers oncology products comprising ADCs, small molecules, bispecific, and other immunotherapies for the treatment of cancers, including breast cancer, genitourinary cancer, and hematologic malignancies, as well as melanoma, gastrointestinal, gynecological, and lung cancer under the Ibrance, Xtandi, Padcev, Adcetris, Inlyta, Lorbrena, Bosulif, Tukysa, Braftovi, Mektovi, Orgovyx, Elrexfio, Tivdak, and Talzenna brands. Further, it provides biosimilars under the Inflectra brand; oncology biosimilars comprising Retacrit, Ruxience, Zirabev, Trazimera and Nivestym, and other biosimilars; and sterile injectables, such as Sulperazon, Atgam, Fragmin, Solu Medrol, Solu Cortef, and Bicillin. The company has collaboration agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Astellas Pharma US, Inc.; Merck KGaA; and BioNTech SE, as well as a strategic collaboration with Boltz, PBC to develop and deploy biomolecular AI foundation models. Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

www.pfizer.com
By the numbersComputed from live metrics

Shares trade at a moderate 18.6× trailing earnings, easing to 8.6× on forward estimates. Profitability shows a net margin of 11.8% and return on equity of 8.3%. Leverage is elevated at 2.0× net debt/EBITDA. Revenue grew 5.4% year-on-year. It yields 7.1% in dividends. The mean analyst target of USD29.15 sits 19.9% above the current price (Buy, 27 analysts).

AI analysisAI-generated · 04 Jul 2026 · claude-opus (research)

business model

Pfizer is a global research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines and vaccines. It generates revenue from patented branded drugs across therapeutic areas, relying on its R&D pipeline, in-licensing, and acquisitions to replace revenue lost to patent expirations.

revenue segments

Revenue spans multiple therapeutic areas including oncology (bolstered by its Seagen acquisition), vaccines, internal medicine/cardiometabolic, and anti-infectives, plus its COVID-19 products (the Comirnaty vaccine and Paxlovid antiviral). Oncology and vaccines are central growth priorities as pandemic-era revenue has declined.

key dependencies

Depends on R&D productivity, successful clinical trials and regulatory approvals, patent protection, manufacturing quality, and payer and government reimbursement. It also relies on integrating large acquisitions and managing the patent cliff facing several key products later this decade.

competitors

Competes with large pharmaceutical peers such as Merck, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novartis, Roche, AstraZeneca, GSK, and Moderna (in vaccines), as well as biotech firms and generic and biosimilar manufacturers after patent expiry.

moat

Its moat derives from patent-protected products, deep R&D and regulatory expertise, global manufacturing and commercial scale, and established relationships with providers and payers. Scale supports large clinical programs and business-development capacity to acquire promising assets.

risks

Risks include declining COVID-19 product revenue, upcoming patent expirations on major drugs, clinical-trial failures and pipeline uncertainty, drug-pricing pressure and policy changes such as US Medicare negotiation, litigation, and the execution and integration risk of large debt-funded acquisitions.

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Financials & metrics

as of 27 Aug 2026
52-week rangeNear 52-week high · 86%
Low $23.58Now $28.00High $28.75

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Profit & loss · annual (USD)latest net margin 12.4%
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Full financial statements

Income statement

Line item20252024202320222021
Total revenue$62.58B$63.63B$59.55B$101.17B
Cost of revenue$16.07B$17.85B$24.95B$34.34B
Gross profit$46.51B$45.78B$34.60B$66.83B
Operating expense$29.11B$30.84B$30.18B$28.71B
R&D$10.44B$10.82B$10.68B$11.43B
Operating income$17.41B$14.94B$4.42B$38.12B
Interest expense$2.67B$3.09B$2.21B$1.24B
Pretax income$7.52B$8.02B$1.06B$34.73B
Tax provision-$266.00M-$28.00M-$1.11B$3.33B
Net income$7.77B$8.03B$2.12B$31.37B
EBITDA$16.78B$18.13B$9.56B$41.03B
Diluted EPS$1.36$1.41$0.37$5.47

Balance sheet

Line item20252024202320222021
Total assets$208.16B$213.40B$226.50B$197.21B
Current assets$42.90B$50.36B$43.33B$51.26B
Cash & equivalents$1.14B$1.04B$2.85B$416.00M
Inventory$10.65B$10.85B$10.19B$8.98B
Total liabilities$121.39B$124.90B$137.21B$101.29B
Current liabilities$36.98B$42.99B$47.79B$42.14B
Total debt$63.96B$63.65B$70.84B$34.86B
Long-term debt$60.81B$56.70B$60.50B$31.93B
Shareholders' equity$86.48B$88.20B$89.01B$95.66B
Retained earnings$114.61B$116.72B$118.35B$125.66B
Working capital$5.91B$7.36B-$4.46B$9.12B

Cash flow

Line item20252024202320222021
Operating cash flow$11.70B$12.74B$8.70B$29.27B
Investing cash flow-$1.35B$2.65B-$32.28B-$15.78B
Financing cash flow-$10.30B-$17.14B$26.07B-$14.83B
Capital expenditure-$2.63B-$2.91B-$3.91B-$3.24B
Free cash flow$9.07B$9.84B$4.79B$26.03B
Dividends paid-$9.77B-$9.51B-$9.25B-$8.98B
Share buybacks$0.00$0.00-$2.00B$0.00
End cash position$1.20B$1.11B$2.92B$468.00M

Reported figures from public filings via Yahoo Finance. Line coverage varies by company. Not investment advice.

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
6.14%
Annual Rate
$1.72
Payout Ratio
226.3%
Frequency
Quarterly
Latest ex-date
24 Jul 2026
Pay date
01 Sept 2026
Most recent
$0.43
Dividend history · per payment (USD)
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Analyst assessment

as of 27 Aug 2026
Buy26 analysts
Implied to mean target
+2.2%
Low $25.00High $35.75
Now
$28.00
Low
$25.00
Mean
$28.61
High
$35.75
Rating distribution
Strong Buy 2
Buy 8
Hold 16
Sell 1
Strong Sell 1

Aggregate consensus only. Named per-analyst targets require a premium source and are not shown; the data model is ready to hold them if one is added.

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Technicals

as of 26 Aug 2026
CloseSMA 50SMA 200Death cross
SMA 50
$25.49
SMA 200
$26.05
RSI (14)
76.1
MACD
0.83
RSI (14) · overbought > 70 · oversold < 30
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