PFIZER INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Feb 26, 2026.
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FY2025 · Filed Feb 26, 2026
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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
| ITEM 8. | FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA |
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To the Board of Directors and Shareholders
Pfizer Inc.:
Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Pfizer Inc. and Subsidiary Companies (the Company) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated financial statements). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013)issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated February 26, 2026 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Basis for Opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Evaluation of the U.S. Medicare, Medicaid, and performance-based contract rebates accrual
As discussed in Note 1G to the consolidated financial statements, the Company records estimated deductions for Medicare, Medicaid, and performance-based contract rebates (collectively, U.S. rebates) as a reduction to gross product revenues. The accrual for U.S. rebates is recorded in the same period that the corresponding revenues are recognized. The length of time between when a sale is made and when the U.S. rebate is paid by the Company can be as long as one year, which increases the need for significant management judgment and knowledge of market conditions and practices in estimating the accrual.
We identified the evaluation of the U.S. rebates accrual as a critical audit matter because the evaluation of the product-specific experience ratio assumption involved especially challenging auditor judgment. The product-specific experience ratio assumption relates to estimating which of the Company’s revenue transactions will ultimately be subject to a related rebate.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of certain internal controls over the Company’s U.S. rebates accrual process related to the development of the product-specific experience ratio assumptions. We estimated the U.S. rebates accrual using internal information and historical data and compared the result to the Company’s estimated U.S. rebates accrual. We evaluated the Company’s ability to accurately estimate the accrual for U.S. rebates by comparing historically recorded accruals to the actual amount that was ultimately paid by the Company.
Evaluation of gross unrecognized tax benefits
As discussed in Notes 5D and 1Q, the Company’s tax positions are subject to audit by local taxing authorities in each respective tax jurisdiction, and the resolution of such audits may span multiple years. Since tax law is complex and often subject to varied interpretations and judgments, it is uncertain whether some of the Company’s tax positions will be sustained upon audit. As of December 31, 2025, the Company has recorded gross unrecognized tax benefits, excluding associated interest, of $4.7 billion.
We identified the evaluation of certain of the Company’s gross unrecognized tax benefits as a critical audit matter because a high degree of audit effort, including specialized skills and knowledge, and complex auditor judgment was required in evaluating the Company’s interpretation of tax law and its estimate of the ultimate resolution of its tax positions.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of an internal control over the Company’s liability for unrecognized tax position process related to (1) interpretation of tax law, (2) evaluation of which of the Company’s tax positions may not be sustained upon audit, and (3) estimation and recording of the gross unrecognized tax benefits. We involved tax and valuation professionals with specialized skills and knowledge who assisted in evaluating the Company’s interpretation of tax laws, including the assessment of transfer pricing practices in accordance with applicable tax laws and regulations. We inspected settlements with applicable taxing authorities, including assessing the expiration of statutes of limitations. We tested the calculation of the liability for uncertain tax positions, including an evaluation of the Company’s assessment of the technical merits of tax positions and estimates of the amount of tax benefits expected to be sustained.
Evaluation of product liability and other product-related litigation
As discussed in Notes 1S and 16 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company is involved in product liability and other product-related litigation, which can include personal injury, consumer fraud, off-label promotion, securities, antitrust and breach of contract claims, among others. Certain of these pending product and other product-related legal proceedings could result in losses that could be substantial. The accrued liability and/or disclosure for the pending product liability and other product-related legal proceedings requires a complex series of judgments by the Company about future events, which involves a number of uncertainties.
We identified the evaluation of product liability and other product-related litigation as a critical audit matter. Challenging auditor judgment was required to evaluate the Company’s judgments about future events and uncertainties.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of certain internal controls over the Company’s product liability and other product-related litigation processes, including controls related to (1) the evaluation of information from external and internal legal counsel, (2) forward-looking expectations, and (3) new legal proceedings, or other legal proceedings not currently reserved or disclosed. We read letters received directly from the Company’s external and internal legal counsel that described the Company’s probable or reasonably possible legal contingency to pending product liability and other product-related legal proceedings. We inspected the Company’s minutes from meetings of the Audit Committee, which included the status of key litigation matters. We evaluated the Company’s ability to estimate its monetary exposure to pending product and other product-related legal proceedings by comparing historically recorded liabilities to actual monetary amounts incurred upon resolution of prior legal matters. We analyzed relevant publicly available information about the Company, its competitors, and the industry.
We have not been able to determine the specific year that we or our predecessor firms began serving as the Company’s auditor, however, we are aware that we or our predecessor firms have served as the Company’s auditor since at least 1942.
New York, New York
February 26, 2026
Consolidated Statements of Operations
| Year Ended December 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (MILLIONS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Revenues: | |||
| Product revenues | $51,663 | $53,816 | $50,914 |
| Alliance revenues | 9,266 | 8,388 | 7,582 |
| Royalty revenues | 1,650 | 1,423 | 1,058 |
| Total revenues | 62,579 | 63,627 | 59,553 |
| Costs and expenses: | |||
| Cost of sales(a), (b) | 16,067 | 17,851 | 24,954 |
| Selling, informational and administrative expenses(a) | 13,794 | 14,730 | 14,771 |
| Research and development expenses(a) | 10,437 | 10,822 | 10,679 |
| Acquired in-process research and development expenses | 1,613 | 108 | 194 |
| Amortization of intangible assets | 4,874 | 5,286 | 4,733 |
| Restructuring charges and certain acquisition-related costs | 1,550 | 2,419 | 2,943 |
| Other (income)/deductions––net | 6,724 | 4,388 | 222 |
| Income from continuing operations before provision/(benefit) for taxes on income | 7,520 | 8,023 | 1,058 |
| Provision/(benefit) for taxes on income | (266) | (28) | (1,115) |
| Income from continuing operations | 7,787 | 8,051 | 2,172 |
| Discontinued operations––net of tax | 25 | 11 | (15) |
| Net income before allocation to noncontrolling interests | 7,812 | 8,062 | 2,158 |
| Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests | 41 | 31 | 39 |
| Net income attributable to Pfizer Inc. common shareholders | $7,771 | $8,031 | $2,119 |
| Earnings per common share––basic: | |||
| Income from continuing operations attributable to Pfizer Inc. common shareholders | $1.37 | $1.42 | $0.38 |
| Discontinued operations––net of tax | — | — | — |
| Net income attributable to Pfizer Inc. common shareholders | $1.37 | $1.42 | $0.38 |
| Earnings per common share––diluted: | |||
| Income from continuing operations attributable to Pfizer Inc. common shareholders | $1.36 | $1.41 | $0.37 |
| Discontinued operations––net of tax | — | — | — |
| Net income attributable to Pfizer Inc. common shareholders | $1.36 | $1.41 | $0.37 |
| Weighted-average shares––basic | 5,683 | 5,664 | 5,643 |
| Weighted-average shares––diluted | 5,713 | 5,700 | 5,709 |
(a)Exclusive of amortization of intangible assets.
(b)See Note 17A.
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
| Year Ended December 31, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (MILLIONS) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Net income before allocation to noncontrolling interests | $7,812 | $8,062 | $2,158 |
| Foreign currency translation adjustments, net | (181) | 32 | 452 |
| Unrealized holding gains/(losses) on derivative financial instruments, net | (212) | 499 | 626 |
| Reclassification adjustments for (gains)/losses included in net income(a) | (269) | (159) | (413) |
| (481) | 341 | 213 | |
| Unrealized holding gains/(losses) on available-for-sale securities, net | 97 | (152) | (121) |
| Reclassification adjustments for (gains)/losses included in net income(b) | (7) | 42 | (141) |
| 89 | (111) | (261) | |
| Benefit plans: prior service (costs)/credits and other, net | (16) | 193 | (25) |
| Reclassification adjustments related to amortization of prior service costs and other, net | (84) | (109) | (117) |
| Reclassification adjustments related to curtailments of prior service costs and other, net | (52) | — | (15) |
| (152) | 84 | (157) | |
| Other comprehensive income/(loss), before tax | (725) | 347 | 246 |
| Tax provision/(benefit) on other comprehensive income/(loss) | (486) | 231 | (85) |
| Other comprehensive income/(loss) before allocation to noncontrolling interests | $(239) | $116 | $331 |
| Comprehensive income/(loss) before allocation to noncontrolling interests | $7,573 | $8,178 | $2,488 |
| Less: Comprehensive income/(loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests | 29 | 28 | 26 |
| Comprehensive income/(loss) attributable to Pfizer Inc. | $7,544 | $8,149 | $2,462 |
(a)Reclassified into Other (income)/deductions—netand Cost of sales. See Note 7E.
(b)Reclassified into Other (income)/deductions—net.
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