NYSE:PFE - Pfizer Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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$43.80 -0.77 (-1.73 %)

(As of 12/17/2018 07:04 AM ET)

Previous Close$44.57

Today's Range$43.4250 - $44.12

52-Week Range$33.20 - $46.47

Volume31.33 million shs

Average Volume21.20 million shs

Market Capitalization$260.74 billion

P/E Ratio16.53

Dividend Yield3.11%

Beta0.88

Pfizer Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells healthcare products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Pfizer Innovative Health (IH) and Pfizer Essential Health (EH). The IH segment focuses on the development and commercialization of medicines and vaccines, and consumer healthcare products in various therapeutic areas, including internal medicine, vaccines, oncology, inflammation and immunology, and rare diseases, as well as consumer healthcare, such as over-the-counter brands comprising dietary supplements, pain management, gastrointestinal, and respiratory and personal care. This segment offers products primarily under the Prevnar 13/Prevenar 13, Xeljanz, Eliquis, Lyrica, Enbrel, Ibrance, Xtandi, Advil, and Centrum brands. The EH segment offers products that would lose or have lost marketing patent protection; branded generic products; generic sterile injectable products; biosimilars; and anti-infectives. It provides products under the Lipitor, Premarin family, Norvasc, Lyrica, Celebrex, Viagra, Inflectra/Remsima, Pristiq, Zyvox, Vfend, Revatio, Inspra, Medrol, Sulperazon, Fragmin, Tygacil, Nivestim, and Retacrit brands. This segment also engages in the research and development, as well as contract manufacturing activities. The company serves wholesalers, retailers, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, pharmacies, and individual provider offices, as well as disease control and prevention centers. Pfizer Inc. has collaboration and/or co-promotion agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Astellas Pharma US, Inc.; Merck KGaA; Immutep Limited; BioNTech AG; Neofluidics, LLC; Kite Pharma, Inc.; Merck KGaA; Leap Therapeutics, Inc.; and Nektar Therapeutics, as well as development agreement with Antares Pharma, Inc. Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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Industry, Sector and Symbol

Stock Exchange NYSE

Industry Pharmaceutical preparations

Sub-IndustryPharmaceuticals

SectorMedical

Current SymbolNYSE:PFE

Previous Symbol

CUSIP71708110

Webwww.pfizer.com

Phone212-733-2323

Debt

Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.47

Current Ratio1.43

Quick Ratio1.15

Price-To-Earnings

Trailing P/E Ratio16.53

Forward P/E Ratio14.60

P/E Growth2.18

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales$52.55 billion

Price / Sales4.96

Cash Flow$3.75 per share

Price / Cash Flow11.68

Book Value$12.02 per share

Price / Book3.64

Profitability

EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$2.65

Net Income$21.31 billion

Net Margins44.63%

Return on Equity25.26%

Return on Assets10.72%

Miscellaneous

Employees90,200

Outstanding Shares5,952,870,000

Market Cap$260.74 billion

OptionableOptionable

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) Frequently Asked Questions

What is Pfizer's stock symbol?

Pfizer trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PFE."

How often does Pfizer pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Pfizer?

Pfizer announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, December 14th. Investors of record on Friday, February 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.36 per share on Friday, March 1st. This represents a $1.44 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.29%. This is a boost from Pfizer's previous quarterly dividend of $0.34. View Pfizer's Dividend History.

How will Pfizer's stock buyback program work?

Pfizer declared that its board has initiated a stock buyback plan on Friday, December 14th 2018, which permits the company to buyback $10,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 3.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

How were Pfizer's earnings last quarter?

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 30th. The biopharmaceutical company reported $0.78 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.75 by $0.03. The biopharmaceutical company earned $13.30 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $13.53 billion. Pfizer had a net margin of 44.63% and a return on equity of 25.26%. The firm's revenue was up 1.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.67 earnings per share. View Pfizer's Earnings History.

When is Pfizer's next earnings date?

Pfizer is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Pfizer.

What guidance has Pfizer issued on next quarter's earnings?

Pfizer updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, October, 30th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.98-3.02 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.99. The company issued revenue guidance of $53-53.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $54.16 billion.

What price target have analysts set for PFE?

23 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Pfizer's shares. Their predictions range from $37.00 to $54.00. On average, they anticipate Pfizer's share price to reach $43.80 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Price Targets for Pfizer.

What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Pfizer?

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Pfizer in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 14 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Pfizer.

What are Wall Street analysts saying about Pfizer stock?

Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Pfizer stock:

1. Cantor Fitzgerald analysts commented, "We reiterate our OW and think respectable earnings growth, driven by Innovative Medicines, pipeline advancements, and return of capital to PFE’s shareholders — above the industry average — are all underappreciated. Therefore, we believe multiple expansion and upward earnings revisions should drive PFE shares higher. Valuation Summary We use a blend of DCF and multiples (EV/EBITDA) analysis to get to our 12-month price target of $53." (12/11/2018)
2. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Pfizer is facing top-line headwinds in the form of genericization of key drugs, supply challenges in the legacy Hospira portfolio, pricing pressure and rising competition. Nonetheless, we believe that new products like Ibrance, contribution from acquisitions, cost-cutting efforts, a lower tax rate and share buybacks should help the company achieve its guidance. Pfizer also boasts a strong pipeline and expects approximately 25 to 30 drug approvals through 2022, including around 15 products that have blockbuster potential. Pfizer’s growing immuno-oncology portfolio has strong potential. Bavencio is being considered a key long-term growth driver for Pfizer. In oncology, Pfizer has three potential medicines under FDA’s priority review. The stock has outperformed the industry this year so far. Estimates have remained stable ahead of its Q3 earnings release and Pfizer has a positive record of earnings surprises in recent quarters." (10/16/2018)

Has Pfizer been receiving favorable news coverage?

Media coverage about PFE stock has trended somewhat positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Pfizer earned a daily sentiment score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the biopharmaceutical company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.

Are investors shorting Pfizer?

Pfizer saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 50,327,084 shares, an increase of 6.3% from the November 15th total of 47,355,745 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 21,886,235 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.3 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Pfizer's Current Options Chain.

Who are some of Pfizer's key competitors?

Some companies that are related to Pfizer include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Roche Holdings AG Basel (RHHBY), Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK), Novartis (NVS), AbbVie (ABBV), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Eli Lilly And Co (LLY), Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO), Sanofi (SNY), AstraZeneca (AZN), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Bayer (BAYRY), Shire (SHPG) and Allergan (AGN).

Who are Pfizer's key executives?

Pfizer's management team includes the folowing people:

Mr. Ian C. Read, Chairman & CEO (Age 64)
Mr. Frank A. D'Amelio, CFO & EVP of Global Supply and Bus. Operations (Age 60)
Mr. Albert Bourla D.V.M., DVM, Ph.D., COO & Director (Age 56)
Dr. Mikael Dolsten, Global Pres of Worldwide R&D and Medical (Age 59)
Mr. John D. Young, Group Pres & Chief Bus. Officer (Age 53)

Who are Pfizer's major shareholders?

Pfizer's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.57%), Vanguard Group Inc. (7.42%), Vanguard Group Inc (7.42%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.18%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.01%) and Morgan Stanley (0.93%). Company insiders that own Pfizer stock include Alexander R Mackenzie, Charles H Hill, Douglas M Lankler, Frank A Damelio, Ian C Read, Kirsten Lund-Jurgensen, Laurie J Olson, Loretta V Cangialosi, Mikael Dolsten, Pfizer Inc, Rady A Johnson, Sally Susman and W Don Cornwell. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Pfizer.

Which major investors are selling Pfizer stock?

PFE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Franklin Resources Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, BlackRock Inc., American Century Companies Inc., FMR LLC, Eaton Vance Management, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA and Sanders Capital LLC. Company insiders that have sold Pfizer company stock in the last year include Alexander R Mackenzie, Charles H Hill, Douglas M Lankler, Frank A Damelio, Ian C Read, Kirsten Lund-Jurgensen, Laurie J Olson, Loretta V Cangialosi, Mikael Dolsten, Rady A Johnson, Sally Susman and W Don Cornwell. View Insider Buying and Selling for Pfizer.

Which major investors are buying Pfizer stock?

PFE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Vanguard Group Inc, Vanguard Group Inc., Bessemer Group Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Glenmede Trust Co. NA and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ . View Insider Buying and Selling for Pfizer.

How do I buy shares of Pfizer?

Shares of PFE can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

What is Pfizer's stock price today?

One share of PFE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $43.80.

How big of a company is Pfizer?

Pfizer has a market capitalization of $260.74 billion and generates $52.55 billion in revenue each year. The biopharmaceutical company earns $21.31 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.65 on an earnings per share basis. Pfizer employs 90,200 workers across the globe.

What is Pfizer's official website?

The official website for Pfizer is http://www.pfizer.com.

How can I contact Pfizer?

Pfizer's mailing address is 235 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK NY, 10017. The biopharmaceutical company can be reached via phone at 212-733-2323.

MarketBeat Community Rating for Pfizer (NYSE PFE)

Community Ranking:		3.2 out of 5 ( )
Outperform Votes:		1,231 (Vote Outperform)
Underperform Votes:		700 (Vote Underperform)
Total Votes:		1,931

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This page was last updated on 12/17/2018 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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