PFE

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, founded in 1849 in Brooklyn, New York by cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart. Originally starting as a fine chemicals business, the company evolved into a major pharmaceutical manufacturer and became publicly traded in 1972. Today, Pfizer is a global biopharmaceutical giant headquartered in New York, known for discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing medicines and vaccines across multiple therapeutic areas. The company gained unprecedented prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as the co-developer of the first FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty) in partnership with BioNTech, and the oral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid.