Company Analysis

Assignment on company analysis.

Company Name: Pfizer Inc.

Subject: International Accounting

Professor: Prof. William Hancock

Submitted by: Asif Momin

Cohort: Hancock

Year: 2010

Hult International Business School.

Content

Objective:

Industry overview.

The company Product and services.

Financial position (Strengths and weaknesses) in the industry.

Analyst Report and review (Yahoofinance).

Analyze financial ratios of last 5 years.

Recommendation to lend money to the company.

Recommendation on purchase of company`s stock.

References.

Offense

Objective:

The objective of this report is to analyze the company Pfizer Inc. in following terms

Company overview in Industry.

Products and services offered by the company.

Financial position (Strengths and weaknesses) in the industry.

Review of analysit recommendation.

Analyze financial ratios of last 3 years.

Recommendation to lend/not to lend the money to company.

Recommendation on purchase of company`s stock.

Industry Overview:

The pharmaceutical industry is highly complex industry and it is characterized by a highly risky and lengthy R&D process, intense competition for intellectual property, stringent government regulation and powerful purchaser pressures. Over the years from evolution till date the industry had undergone different phases.

Companies in this industry include establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing, fabricating, and processing medicinal substances into finished pharmaceuticals for human and veterinary use. Ethical brand name drugs, generic products, and non-prescription or over-the-counter medication constitute the pharmaceutical industry sub-sectors. Pfizer Inc. is one of the major player worldwide in the industry.

The company, products and services:

Pfizer Inc. (Pfizer) is a research-based, global biopharmaceutical company. The Company applies science and its global resources to improve health and...