• Delivers Robust Earnings Performance, Successfully Navigating a Dynamic Environment
• Made Significant Progress Strengthening the R&D Organization
• On Track to Exceed Net Cost Savings Targets

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 29, 2025-- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) reported financial results for the first quarter of 2025 and reaffirmed its 2025 financial guidance⁽¹⁾.

EXECUTIVE COMMENTARY

Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer:

“We continued to execute with focus and discipline against our strategic priorities, including strengthening our R&D organization and driving improved productivity. With the underlying strength of our business, we believe we can be agile in navigating an uncertain and volatile external environment.”

David Denton, CFO and EVP of Pfizer:

“Our overall solid first-quarter performance demonstrates our continued focus on commercial execution amid U.S. Medicare Part D headwinds. Our focus on operational efficiency and financial discipline is driving strong results to our bottom line. We are currently trending towards the upper end of our 2025 Adjusted diluted EPS guidance range.”

OVERALL RESULTS

• First-Quarter 2025 Revenues of $13.7 Billion, Reported⁽²⁾ Diluted EPS of $0.52, and Adjusted⁽³⁾ Diluted EPS of $0.92
• On Track to Deliver Operating Margin Expansion from Ongoing Cost Realignment Program⁽⁴⁾ with Approximately $4.5 Billion of Net Cost Savings by End of 2025, and Announces Additional Productivity Gains Expected Through 2027 Leveraging Digital Enablement and Process Simplification
  • Additional Anticipated Net Cost Savings of Approximately $1.2 Billion⁽⁴⁾ Primarily in SI&A by End of 2027
  • Expanded Program to Include Anticipated R&D Re-Organization Cost Savings of Approximately $500 Million by End of 2026, with Savings to be Reinvested in the Pipeline
• First Phase of Manufacturing Optimization Program On Track to Deliver Approximately $1.5 Billion in Net Cost Savings by End of 2027 with Initial Savings Anticipated in the Latter Part of 2025

Some amounts in this press release may not add due to rounding. All percentages have been calculated using unrounded amounts. References to operational variances pertain to period-over-period changes that exclude the impact of foreign exchange rates⁽⁵⁾.

Results for the first quarter of 2025 and 2024⁽⁶⁾ are summarized below.

REVENUES

2025 FINANCIAL GUIDANCE⁽¹⁾

• Reaffirms All Components of Full-Year 2025 Financial Guidance⁽¹⁾, including Revenues in a Range of $61.0 to $64.0 Billion and Adjusted⁽³⁾ Diluted EPS in a Range of $2.80 to $3.00. The company’s reaffirmed guidance does not currently include any potential impact related to future tariffs and trade policy changes, which we are unable to predict at this time.

Pfizer’s 2025 financial guidance⁽¹⁾ is presented below.

CAPITAL ALLOCATION

During the first three months of 2025, Pfizer deployed its capital in a variety of ways, which primarily included:

• Reinvesting capital into initiatives intended to enhance the future growth prospects of the company, including:
  • $2.2 billion invested in internal research and development projects, and
  • Approximately $90 million invested in business development transactions.
• Returning capital directly to shareholders through $2.4 billion of cash dividends, or $0.43 per share of common stock.

No share repurchases have been completed to date in 2025. As of April 29, 2025, Pfizer’s remaining share repurchase authorization is $3.3 billion. Current financial guidance does not anticipate any share repurchases in 2025. Pfizer has actively de-levered and as of March 30, 2025 is below our previously stated gross leverage⁽⁷⁾ target. The company expects to continue to de-lever in a prudent manner in order to maintain a balanced capital allocation strategy. This includes maintaining the flexibility to deploy capital towards potential value-creating business development transactions and the potential to return capital to shareholders through share repurchases.

Diluted weighted-average shares outstanding of 5,710 million and 5,697 million were used to calculate Reported⁽²⁾ and Adjusted⁽³⁾ diluted EPS for first-quarter 2025 and 2024, respectively.

QUARTERLY FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (First-Quarter 2025 vs. First-Quarter 2024)

First-quarter 2025 revenues totaled $13.7 billion, a decrease of $1.2 billion, or 8%, compared to the prior-year quarter, reflecting an operational decrease of $908 million, or 6%, as well as an unfavorable impact of foreign exchange of $256 million, or 2%. The operational decrease was primarily driven by a decline in Paxlovid revenues, partially offset by growth from the Vyndaqel family, Comirnaty⁽⁸⁾, and several other products across categories despite the unfavorable impact of higher manufacturer discounts resulting from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Medicare Part D Redesign.

First-quarter 2025 operational revenue reflected higher revenues primarily for:

• Vyndaqel family (Vyndaqel, Vyndamax, Vynmac) globally, up 33% operationally, driven largely by strong demand with continuing uptake in patient diagnosis, primarily in the U.S. and international developed markets; partially offset by lower net price in the U.S. mostly due to the impact of higher manufacturer discounts resulting from the IRA Medicare Part D Redesign;
• Comirnaty⁽⁸⁾ globally, up 62% operationally, driven primarily by higher revenues in the U.S. reflecting lower expected returns and higher market share, as well as higher contractual deliveries in certain international markets;
• Padcev globally, up 25% operationally, driven primarily by increased market share in first-line metastatic urothelial cancer (mUC);
• Nurtec ODT/Vydura globally, up 40% operationally, driven primarily by strong demand in the U.S. and favorable changes in channel mix and, to a much lesser extent, recent launches in certain international markets; and
• Lorbrena globally, up 39% operationally, driven primarily by increased patient share in the first-line ALK-positive metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (ALK+ mNSCLC) treatment setting in the U.S., China, and certain other international markets;

more than offset primarily by lower revenues for:

• Paxlovid globally, down $1.5 billion or 75% operationally, mostly driven by the U.S. market in part due to the non-recurrence of the $771 million favorable final adjustment⁽⁹⁾ recorded in the first quarter of 2024 to the estimated non-cash revenue reversal of $3.5 billion recorded in the fourth quarter of 2023. The year-over-year decline was also attributable to both (i) lower COVID-19 infections across U.S. and international markets and (ii) lower international government purchases;
• Eliquis globally, down 4% operationally, driven primarily by lower net price in the U.S. including the impact of higher manufacturer discounts resulting from the IRA Medicare Part D Redesign; partially offset by strong underlying demand as well as higher revenues in international markets partly due to timing of shipments;
• Xeljanz globally, down 31% operationally, mostly driven by lower net price in the U.S. due to unfavorable changes in channel mix as well as the impact of higher manufacturer discounts resulting from the IRA Medicare Part D Redesign; and
• Ibrance globally, down 6% operationally, driven primarily by generic entry and timing of shipments in certain international markets, as well as lower net price in the U.S. mostly due to the impact of higher manufacturer discounts resulting from the IRA Medicare Part D Redesign.

GAAP Reported⁽²⁾ Statement of Operations Highlights

SELECTED REPORTED⁽²⁾ COSTS AND EXPENSES

First-quarter 2025 Cost of Sales⁽²⁾ as a percentage of revenues decreased by 2.0 percentage points compared to the prior-year quarter, driven primarily by a favorable revision of our estimate of accrued royalties and the favorable impact of foreign exchange, partially offset by the unfavorable impact of changes in sales mix as well as the non-recurrence of the Paxlovid favorable final adjustment⁽⁹⁾ recorded in the first quarter of 2024 to the estimated non-cash revenue reversal recorded in the fourth quarter of 2023.

First-quarter 2025 SI&A Expenses⁽²⁾ decreased 12% operationally compared with the prior-year quarter, primarily reflecting ongoing productivity improvements that drove a decrease in marketing and promotional spend for various products and lower spending in corporate enabling functions, as well as lower spending on COVID-19 products.

First-quarter 2025 R&D Expenses⁽²⁾ decreased 11% operationally compared with the prior-year quarter, driven primarily by a net decrease in spending due to pipeline focus and optimization, as well as lower compensation-related expenses.

The unfavorable period-over-period change in Other (income)/deductions—net⁽²⁾ of $273 million for the first quarter of 2025, compared with the prior-year quarter, was driven primarily by (i) net losses on equity securities in the first quarter of 2025 versus net gains on equity securities in the first quarter of 2024, (ii) the non-recurrence of a gain on the partial sale of our investment in Haleon plc in the first quarter of 2024 and (iii) higher intangible asset impairment charges; partially offset by (iv) lower net interest expense.

Pfizer’s effective tax rate on Reported⁽²⁾ income for the first quarter of 2025 is negative, primarily due to favorable global income tax resolutions in multiple tax jurisdictions spanning multiple tax years, as well as a favorable change in the jurisdictional mix of earnings.

Adjusted⁽³⁾ Statement of Operations Highlights

SELECTED ADJUSTED⁽³⁾ COSTS AND EXPENSES

See the reconciliations of certain Reported⁽²⁾ to non-GAAP Adjusted⁽³⁾ financial measures and associated footnotes in the financial tables section of this press release located at the hyperlink below.

RECENT NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS (Since February 4, 2025)

Product Developments

Pipeline Developments

A comprehensive update of Pfizer’s development pipeline was published today and is now available at www.pfizer.com/science/drug-product-pipeline. It includes an overview of Pfizer’s research and a list of compounds in development with targeted indication and phase of development, as well as mechanism of action for some candidates in Phase 1 and all candidates from Phase 2 through registration.

Corporate Developments

PFIZER TO HOST CONFERENCE CALL

Please find Pfizer’s press release and associated financial tables, including reconciliations of certain GAAP reported to non-GAAP adjusted information, at the following hyperlink:

https://investors.pfizer.com/Q1-2025-PFE-Earnings-Release

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Pfizer will host a live conference call and webcast today at 10:00 AM EDT. To access the live conference call and view the first-quarter 2025 earnings presentation, accompanying prepared remarks from management, and infographic, visit our website at pfizer.com/investors.

You can also listen to the conference call by dialing either 800-456-4352 in the U.S. and Canada or 785-424-1086 outside of the U.S. and Canada. The passcode is “67619”.

The transcript and webcast replay of the call will be made available on our website at pfizer.com/investors within 24 hours after the end of the live conference call and will be accessible for at least 90 days.

For additional details, see the financial schedules and product revenue table within the press release located at the hyperlink above, and the attached disclosure notice.

DISCLOSURE NOTICE: Except where otherwise noted, the information contained in this earnings release and the related attachments is as of April 29, 2025. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this earnings release and the related attachments as a result of new information or future events or developments.

This earnings release and the related attachments contain forward-looking statements about, among other topics, our anticipated operating and financial performance, including financial guidance and projections; reorganizations; business plans, strategy, goals and prospects; expectations for our product pipeline, in-line products and product candidates, including anticipated regulatory submissions, data read-outs, study starts, approvals, launches, discontinuations, clinical trial results and other developing data, revenue contribution and projections, potential pricing and reimbursement, potential market dynamics, including demand, market size and utilization rates and growth, performance, timing of exclusivity and potential benefits; strategic reviews; leverage and capital allocation objectives; an enterprise-wide cost realignment program (including anticipated costs, savings and potential benefits); a Manufacturing Optimization Program to reduce our cost of goods sold (including anticipated costs, savings and potential benefits); dividends and share repurchases; plans for and prospects of our acquisitions, dispositions and other business development activities, including our December 2023 acquisition of Seagen, and our ability to successfully capitalize on growth opportunities and prospects; manufacturing and product supply; our ongoing efforts to respond to COVID-19; our expectations regarding the impact of COVID-19 on our business, operations and financial results; and the expected seasonality of demand for certain of our products. Given their forward-looking nature, these statements involve substantial risks, uncertainties and potentially inaccurate assumptions and we cannot assure that any outcome expressed in these forward-looking statements will be realized in whole or in part. You can identify these statements by the fact that they use future dates or use words such as “will,” “may,” “could,” “likely,” “ongoing,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “assume,” “target,” “forecast,” “guidance,” “goal,” “objective,” “aim,” “seek,” “potential,” “hope” and other words and terms of similar meaning. Pfizer’s financial guidance is based on estimates and assumptions that are subject to significant uncertainties.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from past results and future plans and projected future results are the following:

Risks Related to Our Business, Industry and Operations, and Business Development:

• the outcome of research and development (R&D) activities, including the ability to meet anticipated pre-clinical or clinical endpoints, commencement and/or completion dates for our pre-clinical or clinical trials, regulatory submission dates, and/or regulatory approval and/or launch dates; the possibility of unfavorable pre-clinical and clinical trial results, including the possibility of unfavorable new pre-clinical or clinical data and further analyses of existing pre-clinical or clinical data; risks associated with preliminary, early stage or interim data; the risk that pre-clinical and clinical trial data are subject to differing interpretations and assessments, including during the peer review/publication process, in the scientific community generally, and by regulatory authorities; whether and when additional data from our pipeline programs will be published in scientific journal publications, and if so, when and with what modifications and interpretations; and uncertainties regarding the future development of our product candidates, including whether or when our product candidates will advance to future studies or phases of development or whether or when regulatory applications may be filed for any of our product candidates;
• our ability to successfully address comments received from regulatory authorities such as the FDA or the EMA, or obtain approval for new products and indications from regulators on a timely basis or at all;
• regulatory decisions impacting labeling, approval or authorization, including the scope of indicated patient populations, product dosage, manufacturing processes, safety and/or other matters, including decisions relating to emerging developments regarding potential product impurities; uncertainties regarding the ability to obtain or maintain, and the scope of, recommendations by technical or advisory committees, and the timing of, and ability to obtain, pricing approvals and product launches, all of which could impact the availability or commercial potential of our products and product candidates;
• claims and concerns that may arise regarding the safety or efficacy of in-line products and product candidates, including claims and concerns that may arise from the conduct or outcome of post-approval clinical trials, pharmacovigilance or Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies, which could impact marketing approval, product labeling, and/or availability or commercial potential;
• the success and impact of external business development activities, including the ability to identify and execute on potential business development opportunities; the ability to satisfy the conditions to closing of announced transactions in the anticipated time frame or at all; the ability to realize the anticipated benefits of any such transactions in the anticipated time frame or at all; the potential need for and impact of additional equity or debt financing to pursue these opportunities, which has in the past and could in the future result in increased leverage and/or a downgrade of our credit ratings and could limit our ability to obtain future financing; challenges integrating the businesses and operations; disruption to business or operations relationships; risks related to growing revenues for certain acquired or partnered products; significant transaction costs; and unknown liabilities;
• competition, including from new product entrants, in-line branded products, generic products, private label products, biosimilars and product candidates that treat or prevent diseases and conditions similar to those treated or intended to be prevented by our in-line products and product candidates;
• the ability to successfully market both new and existing products, including biosimilars;
• difficulties or delays in manufacturing, sales or marketing; supply disruptions, shortages or stock-outs at our facilities or third-party facilities that we rely on; and legal or regulatory actions;
• the impact of public health outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics (such as COVID-19) on our business, operations and financial condition and results, including impacts on our employees, manufacturing, supply chain, sales and marketing, R&D and clinical trials;
• risks and uncertainties related to Comirnaty and Paxlovid or any potential future COVID-19 vaccines, treatments or combinations, including, among others, the risk that as the market for COVID-19 products remains endemic and seasonal, demand for our COVID-19 products has and may continue to be reduced or not meet expectations, which has in the past and may continue to lead to reduced revenues, excess inventory or other unanticipated charges; risks related to our ability to develop and commercialize variant adapted vaccines, combinations and/or treatments; uncertainties related to recommendations and coverage for, and the public’s adherence to, vaccines, boosters, treatments or combinations; and potential third-party royalties or other claims related to Comirnaty and Paxlovid;
• trends toward managed care and healthcare cost containment, and our ability to obtain or maintain timely or adequate pricing or favorable formulary placement for our products;
• interest rate and foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, including the impact of global trade tensions, as well as currency devaluations and monetary policy actions in countries experiencing high inflation or deflation rates;
• any significant issues involving our largest wholesale distributors or government customers, which account for a substantial portion of our revenues;
• the impact of the increased presence of counterfeit medicines, vaccines or other products in the pharmaceutical supply chain;
• any significant issues related to the outsourcing of certain operational and staff functions to third parties;
• any significant issues related to our JVs and other third-party business arrangements, including modifications or disputes related to supply agreements or other contracts with customers including governments or other payors;
• uncertainties related to general economic, political, business, industry, regulatory and market conditions including, without limitation, uncertainties related to the impact on us, our customers, suppliers and lenders and counterparties to our foreign-exchange and interest-rate agreements of challenging global economic conditions, such as inflation or interest rate fluctuations, and recent and possible future changes in global financial markets;
• the exposure of our operations globally to possible capital and exchange controls, economic conditions, expropriation, sanctions, tariffs and/or other restrictive government actions, changes in intellectual property legal protections and remedies, unstable governments and legal systems and inter-governmental disputes;
• risks and uncertainties related to issued or future executive orders or other new, or changes in, laws, regulations or policy regarding tariffs;
• the risk and impact of tariffs on our business, which is subject to a number of factors including, but not limited to, restrictions on trade, the effective date and duration of such tariffs, countries included in the scope of tariffs, changes to amounts of tariffs, and potential retaliatory tariffs or other retaliatory actions imposed by other countries;
• the impact of disruptions related to climate change and natural disasters;
• any changes in business, political and economic conditions due to actual or threatened terrorist activity, geopolitical instability, political or civil unrest or military action, including the ongoing conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East and the resulting economic or other consequences;
• the impact of product recalls, withdrawals and other unusual items, including uncertainties related to regulator-directed risk evaluations and assessments, such as our ongoing evaluation of our product portfolio for the potential presence or formation of nitrosamines, and our voluntary withdrawal of all lots of Oxbryta in all markets where it is approved and any regulatory or other impact on Oxbryta and other sickle cell disease assets;
• trade buying patterns;
• the risk of an impairment charge related to our intangible assets, goodwill or equity-method investments;
• the impact of, and risks and uncertainties related to, restructurings and internal reorganizations, as well as any other corporate strategic initiatives and growth strategies, and cost-reduction and productivity initiatives, including any potential future phases, each of which requires upfront costs but may fail to yield anticipated benefits and may result in unexpected costs, organizational disruption, adverse effects on employee morale, retention issues or other unintended consequences;
• the ability to successfully achieve our climate-related goals and progress our environmental sustainability and other priorities;

Risks Related to Government Regulation and Legal Proceedings:

• the impact of any U.S. healthcare reform or legislation, including executive orders or other change in laws, regulations or policy, or any significant spending reduction or cost control efforts affecting Medicare, Medicaid, the 340B Drug Pricing Program or other publicly funded or subsidized health programs, including the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) and the IRA Medicare Part D Redesign, or changes in the tax treatment of employer-sponsored health insurance that may be implemented;
• U.S. federal or state legislation or regulatory action and/or policy efforts affecting, among other things, pharmaceutical product pricing, intellectual property, reimbursement or access to or recommendations for our medicines and vaccines, taxes or other restrictions on U.S. direct-to-consumer advertising; limitations on interactions with healthcare professionals and other industry stakeholders; as well as pricing pressures for our products as a result of highly competitive biopharmaceutical markets;
• risks and uncertainties related to potential changes to vaccine or other healthcare policy in the U.S.;
• legislation or regulatory action in markets outside of the U.S., such as China or Europe, including, without limitation, laws related to pharmaceutical product pricing, intellectual property, medical regulation, environmental protections, reimbursement or access, including, in particular, continued government-mandated reductions in prices and access restrictions for certain products to control costs in those markets;
• legal defense costs, insurance expenses, settlement costs and contingencies, including without limitation, those related to legal proceedings and actual or alleged environmental contamination;
• the risk and impact of an adverse decision or settlement and risk related to the adequacy of reserves related to legal proceedings;
• the risk and impact of tax related litigation and investigations;
• governmental laws, regulations and policies affecting our operations, including, without limitation, the IRA, as well as changes in such laws, regulations or policies or their interpretation, including, among others, changes in tariffs, tax laws and regulations internationally and in the U.S., the adoption of global minimum taxation requirements outside the U.S. generally effective in most jurisdictions since January 1, 2024, government cost-cutting measures and related impacts on, among other matters, government staffing, resources and ability to timely review and process regulatory or other submissions, and potential changes to existing tax laws, tariffs, or changes to other laws, regulations or policies in the U.S., including by the U.S. Presidential administration and Congress, as well as in other countries;

Risks Related to Intellectual Property, Technology and Cybersecurity:

• the risk that our currently pending or future patent applications may not be granted on a timely basis or at all, or any patent-term extensions that we seek may not be granted on a timely basis, if at all;
• risks to our products, patents and other intellectual property, such as: (i) claims of invalidity that could result in loss of patent coverage; (ii) claims of patent infringement, including asserted and/or unasserted intellectual property claims; (iii) claims we may assert against intellectual property rights held by third parties; (iv) challenges faced by our collaboration or licensing partners to the validity of their patent rights; or (v) any pressure from, or legal or regulatory action by, various stakeholders or governments that could potentially result in us not seeking intellectual property protection or agreeing not to enforce or being restricted from enforcing intellectual property rights related to our products, including Comirnaty and Paxlovid;
• any significant breakdown or interruption of our information technology systems and infrastructure (including cloud services);
• any business disruption, theft of confidential or proprietary information, security threats on facilities or infrastructure, extortion or integrity compromise resulting from a cyber-attack, which may include those using adversarial artificial intelligence techniques, or other malfeasance by, but not limited to, nation states, employees, business partners or others; and
• risks and challenges related to the use of software and services that include artificial intelligence-based functionality and other emerging technologies.

Should known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize or should underlying assumptions prove inaccurate, actual results could vary materially from past results and those anticipated, estimated or projected. Investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements. A further list and description of risks, uncertainties and other matters can be found in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and in our subsequent reports on Form 10-Q, in each case including in the sections thereof captioned “Forward-Looking Information and Factors That May Affect Future Results” and “Item 1A. Risk Factors,” and in our subsequent reports on Form 8-K.

This earnings release may include discussion of certain clinical studies relating to various in-line products and/or product candidates. These studies typically are part of a larger body of clinical data relating to such products or product candidates, and the discussion herein should be considered in the context of the larger body of data. In addition, clinical trial data are subject to differing interpretations, and, even when we view data as sufficient to support the safety and/or effectiveness of a product candidate or a new indication for an in-line product, regulatory authorities may not share our views and may require additional data or may deny approval altogether.

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Certain of the products and product candidates discussed in this earnings release are being co-researched, co-developed and/or co-promoted in collaboration with other companies for which Pfizer’s rights vary by market or are the subject of agreements pursuant to which Pfizer has commercialization rights in certain markets.

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