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Pfizer Inc. (PFE)

NYSE / Healthcare / Drug Manufacturers - General

Share price

29.58 USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026

Market capitalisation

168.60B USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026
Market data
Oct 16, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 26, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 16, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

9.0% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

21.59x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

5.4% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 52.82B USDFY2016 Net income: 7.21B USDFY2017 Revenue: 52.55B USDFY2017 Net income: 21.31B USDFY2018 Revenue: 40.83B USDFY2018 Net income: 11.15B USDFY2019 Revenue: 40.91B USDFY2019 Net income: 16.03B USDFY2020 Revenue: 41.65B USDFY2020 Net income: 9.16B USDFY2021 Revenue: 81.29B USDFY2021 Net income: 21.98B USDFY2022 Revenue: 101.17B USDFY2022 Net income: 31.37B USDFY2023 Revenue: 59.55B USDFY2023 Net income: 2.12B USDFY2024 Revenue: 63.63B USDFY2024 Net income: 8.03B USDFY2025 Revenue: 62.58B USDFY2025 Net income: 7.77B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 21.59x at the close of 2026-10-16 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Healthcare sector (223 companies), 21.59x sits at the 42nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.29x to 42.20x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 9.0% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Ordinary" (8.0% to 15.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Healthcare sector (896 companies), 9.0% sits at the 82nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -112.6% to -3.0%.

Is it safe

Debt to equity was 0.78 in FY2025, in the band labelled "Within Graham's industrial limit" (0.50 to 1.00), on lines anchored on Graham's defensive-investor criteria.

Today, against the Healthcare sector (499 companies), 0.78 sits at the 76th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 0.03 to 0.76.

Year by year against peers
Whether Pfizer Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Healthcare sector, year by year. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 fiscal years of Pfizer Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Pfizer Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Pfizer Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Pfizer Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (2 readings drawn from the statement lines Pfizer Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Pfizer Inc., and where in its filings. (3 questions for Pfizer Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Pfizer Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (12 of sixteen figures read for Pfizer Inc.)

These are PFE’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, accession 0000078003-26-000026.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Pfizer Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Return on equity9.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Return on capital employed, pre-tax
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Return on assets3.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Gross margin74.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Operating margin
Why n/a

No operating income line is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Net margin12.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
PFE 12.4%
BMY 14.6%GSK 17.5%BIIB 13.1%GILD 28.9%NVO 33.1%
12.4%33.1%
Net margin: PFE against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Pfizer Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.78 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Current ratio1.16 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Quick ratio0.87 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No operating income line is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Altman Z-score
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Net debt57.09B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Total assets 208.16BTotal liabilities 121.39BShareholders' equity 86.48BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Pfizer Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026).

Pfizer Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets208.16B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Total liabilities121.39B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Shareholders' equity86.48B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Cash10.32B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Total debt67.42B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Net debt57.09B
Current ratio1.16
Debt to equity0.78
  • Interest cover: FY2025: No operating income line is filed for this year.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Pfizer Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings21.59x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
P/E on trailing twelve months38.92x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.95x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Price to sales2.70x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Enterprise value to EBIT23.09x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Diluted earnings per share1.36 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Graham number21.60 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value PFE on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Pfizer Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Pfizer Inc: valuation
Share price29.58 USD
Market capitalisation168.60B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham number21.60 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20251.36 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 10, 2017: low 6.90x, median 15.09x, high 76.68x, latest 38.92x. 2,185 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 124 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Pfizer Inc

  1. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY)Market cap 122.10B USD
  2. GSK plc (GSK)Market cap 99.19B USD
  3. Biogen Inc. (BIIB)Market cap 34.37B USD
  4. Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD)Market cap 193.70B USD
  5. Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO)Market cap 173.10B USD

Same industry (Drug Manufacturers - General) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Pfizer Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield5.4% ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Free cash flow9.07B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Free cash flow margin14.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Dividend yield5.8% ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Payout ratio125.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
FY2016 Free cash flow: 14.37B USDFY2016 Net income: 7.21B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 14.85B USDFY2017 Net income: 21.31B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 13.84B USDFY2018 Net income: 11.15B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 10.54B USDFY2019 Net income: 16.03B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 12.18B USDFY2020 Net income: 9.16B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 29.87B USDFY2021 Net income: 21.98B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 26.03B USDFY2022 Net income: 31.37B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 4.79B USDFY2023 Net income: 2.12B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 9.84B USDFY2024 Net income: 8.03B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 9.07B USDFY2025 Net income: 7.77B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Pfizer Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
21.59xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
1.95xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
23.09xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
5.4%FY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/aFY2025Feb 26, 2026
n/a The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
5.8%FY2025Oct 16, 2026
0.78FY2025Feb 26, 2026
1.16FY2025Feb 26, 2026
2.70xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
n/aFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/a We hold no figure here and no stored reason for its absence. The gap is ours, not the company's.
-2.62FY2025Feb 26, 2026
5/9FY2025Feb 26, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 16, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 16, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Pfizer Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Pfizer Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202562.58B10.19B7.77B1.369.07Bn/a9.0%10-K, Feb 26, 20260000078003-26-000026
FY202463.63B11.11B8.03B1.419.84Bn/a9.1%10-K, Feb 27, 20250000078003-25-000054
FY202359.55B3.27B2.12B0.374.79Bn/a2.4%10-K, Feb 22, 20240000078003-24-000039
FY2022101.17B35.97B31.37B5.4726.03Bn/a32.8%10-K, Feb 23, 20230000078003-23-000024
FY202181.29B25.60B21.98B3.8529.87Bn/a28.5%10-K, Feb 24, 20220000078003-22-000027
FY202041.65B8.48B9.16B1.6312.18Bn/a14.5%10-K, Feb 25, 20210000078003-21-000038
FY201940.91B12.89B16.03B2.8210.54Bn/a25.4%10-K, Feb 27, 20200000078003-20-000014
FY201840.83B4.91B11.15B1.8713.84Bn/a17.6%10-K, Feb 28, 20190000078003-19-000015
FY201752.55B13.57B21.31B3.3414.85Bn/a29.9%10-K, Feb 22, 20180000078003-18-000027
FY201652.82B9.54B7.21B1.1114.37Bn/a12.1%10-K, Feb 23, 20170000078003-17-000014
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 1.9%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 0.8%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 2.3%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -5.0%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Pfizer Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.62 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0000078003-26-000026
Named tests met0 of 30 Computed
Beta0.44 ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 27 not met, 3 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
None of the named tests.
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; Cash-flow yield and ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(7)
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
  • Altman Z-Score: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: No operating income line is filed for this year.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 7 figures could not be read on this company, among them Return on Invested Capital, Altman Z-Score, PEG Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 3 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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