Company Analysis

Pfizer Inc. (PFE)

NYSE: PFE · Pharmaceutical Preparations · New York, NY · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.9
◀ Past 6.7● Present 6.7▶ Future 4.1

The grade of Pfizer Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.9/10
◀ Past6.730% of the headline
● Present6.740% of the headline
▶ Future4.130% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.7/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 497 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Pfizer Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
6.2/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+8.5% a year over 6 filed years; profitable in 6 of 6.

weight 45% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 323 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Pfizer Inc.'s 6 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $42 billion in fiscal 2020 to $63 billion in fiscal 2025, up 8.5% a year; it rose in 3 of 5 years; the deepest fall was 41% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 6 of 6 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span8.5%bottom 42% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 50% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 3% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak41.1%top 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.1% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 2 sales, 3 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 55th percentile among 80 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Pfizer Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03, buying about $3 million (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 10% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.7/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 9%: 9¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 58%: owes 58¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 473 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Pfizer Inc. earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 22 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 58 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 29% of its family
  • return on equitytop 14% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 48% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 11% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 31% of 315 in its family; net margin 12.4%.

weight 33% of this tense · 69th percentile among 315 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Pfizer Inc.'s standing among 315 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $63 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 1% by size; a net margin of 12.4% ranks in the top 16%; revenue growth of -14.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$62.58Btop 1% of its family
  • net margin12.4%top 16% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-14.8%bottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 28% of 315 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019.

weight 22% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 315 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Pfizer Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Bourla, Albert (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-01-02, 7.9 years (top 24% of its family); the 24 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.6 years (top 32%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 24 people in charge now (top 29%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge7 in three years among 24 peopletop 29% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed6.6 yearstop 32% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record7.9 yearstop 24% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.1/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 41% of 273 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 41st percentile among 273 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Pfizer Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.1 billion against debt of $62 billion leaves -29.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 4% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 14.5% of revenue (top 17%); a gross margin of 74.3% (top 43%); research spending of 16.7% of revenue (bottom 21%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-29.1%bottom 4% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue14.5%top 17% of its family
  • gross margin74.3%top 43% of its family
  • research spending against revenue16.7%bottom 21% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 39% of 306 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 39th percentile among 306 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Pfizer Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -14.8% a year over the last three filed years against 8.5% over all 6, slowing (bottom 24% of its family); the newest year grew -1.6% (bottom 35%); research spending grew -3% a year (bottom 43%); capital spending grew -6.7% a year (top 45%) (its annual reports). Pfizer Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-23.3 points a yearbottom 24% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-1.6%bottom 35% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-3.0%bottom 43% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-6.7%top 45% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 45% of 233 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 45th percentile among 233 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Pfizer Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $63 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 24% above the $50 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 25% of its family); net income of $7.8 billion against a prior three-year average of $14 billion (bottom 27%); a net margin of 12.4% against 15.7% before (bottom 33%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace24.0%top 25% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-44%bottom 27% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.3 pointsbottom 33% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton PFE · research, not advice