SENTINEL Due-Diligence Dossier
Target: PFIZER INC Requested as: Pfizer Type: company Generated: 2026-08-13T00:37:51.898Z Synthesis: deterministic Dossier ID: dsr_pfizer_lmcwz9
Source integrity. 31/31 claims are backed by 33 cited public sources. 0 uncited claim(s) were dropped by the verifier. Every statement below links to a real, fetched source — nothing is inferred beyond what the cited material says.
⚠️ Risk Flags
- 🟠 HIGH — Accounting / short-seller concern: PFIZER — direct parent: PFIZER HOLDING FRANCE [E3]
- 🟠 HIGH — Accounting / short-seller concern: Pfizer — direct parent: PFIZER INC. [E5]
- 🟡 ELEVATED — Litigation: Pfizer (PFE) Agreed To A $44 Million Chantix Settlement - finance.yahoo.com [E23]
- 🟡 ELEVATED — Litigation: Pfizer agrees to $44M Chantix settlement. See if you qualify - USA Today [E29]
- 🟡 ELEVATED — Litigation: Popular Drug At Center Of $44M Pfizer Settlement: How To File Claim - DailyVoice.com [E31]
Identity & Background
- Background (encyclopedic): Pfizer Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered at The Spiral in Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 1849 in New York by German entrepreneurs Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart, Pfizer is one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in North America. [E1]
- Legal-entity identity (GLEIF): Legal name: PFIZER · LEI: 549300TJP8I2YL03CQ60 · Jurisdiction: FR · Legal address: PARIS, FR-IDF, FR · Entity status: ACTIVE · LEI registration: ISSUED [E2] (high confidence)
- Legal-entity identity (GLEIF): Legal name: Pfizer · LEI: 549300Z96Y9UZSGHWS54 · Jurisdiction: BE · Legal address: Elsene, BE · Entity status: ACTIVE · LEI registration: ISSUED [E4] (high confidence)
- Legal-entity identity (GLEIF): Legal name: PFIZER - Pfizer Moyen Terme · LEI: 529900DUOU39LFAI2U90 · Jurisdiction: FR · Legal address: Paris, FR-IDF, FR · Entity status: ACTIVE · LEI registration: ISSUED [E6] (high confidence)
- Regulatory identity: Registrant: PFIZER INC · Ticker(s): PFE · SIC industry: Pharmaceutical Preparations (2834) · HQ: NEW YORK, NY [E7] (high confidence)
Sanctions & Watchlist Screening
No entry on the screened sanctions lists exactly matches this name. SENTINEL matches names conservatively (exact match after normalising legal suffixes), so a differently-spelled, transliterated, or aliased listing would NOT be caught here — and screening only covers the lists shown in the Collection Log. This is not a sanctions clearance.
Corporate Structure & Ownership
- Reported ownership: GLEIF Level-2 relationship data reports the direct accounting-consolidating parent of PFIZER (LEI 549300TJP8I2YL03CQ60) as PFIZER HOLDING FRANCE (LEI 5493009RMYDEH75DOK78). [E3] (high confidence)
- Reported ownership: GLEIF Level-2 relationship data reports the direct accounting-consolidating parent of Pfizer (LEI 549300Z96Y9UZSGHWS54) as PFIZER INC. (LEI 765LHXWGK1KXCLTFYQ30). [E5] (high confidence)
Financial & Regulatory Filings
- Filing on record: 10-Q filed 2026-08-04 — PFIZER INC [E8] (high confidence)
- Filing on record: 8-K filed 2026-08-04 — PFIZER INC [E9] (high confidence)
- Filing on record: 8-K filed 2026-06-18 — PFIZER INC [E10] (high confidence)
- Filing on record: 8-K filed 2026-06-18 — PFIZER INC [E11] (high confidence)
- Filing on record: 10-Q filed 2026-05-05 — PFIZER INC [E12] (high confidence)
- Filing on record: 8-K filed 2026-05-05 — PFIZER INC [E13] (high confidence)
- Named in another party's filing: "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2016-02-29 [E14]
- Named in another party's filing: "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2009-02-27 [E15]
- Named in another party's filing: "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2012-02-28 [E16]
- Named in another party's filing: "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2015-02-27 [E17]
- Named in another party's filing: "Pfizer" named in EX-10.49 filed by INCYTE CORP (INCY) (CIK 0000879169) on 2006-03-03 [E18]
- Named in another party's filing: "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2018-02-22 [E19]
- Named in another party's filing: "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2019-02-28 [E20]
- Named in another party's filing: "Pfizer" named in EX-1.1 filed by Animal Health International, Inc. (CIK 0001372813) on 2008-04-07 [E21]
Recent News & Signals (last 3 months)
- [2026-08-12] Pfizer shifts focus from COVID to non-COVID gro... - Pluang [E22]
- [2026-08-12] Pfizer (PFE) Agreed To A $44 Million Chantix Settlement - finance.yahoo.com [E23]
- [2026-08-11] $49 Billion In Payouts, A Lagging Stock: The PFE Trade-Off - Trefis [E24]
- [2026-08-11] Pfizer's Pipeline Could Change Everything (NYSE:PFE) - Seeking Alpha [E25]
- [2026-08-11] Pfizer Just Raised Its 2026 Guidance -- but the Boost Leans Heavily on a Drug Running Out the Patent Clock - The Motley Fool [E26]
- [2026-08-10] Pfizer Rises Almost 7% Post Q2 Results: How to Play the Stock - Zacks Investment Research [E27]
- [2026-08-11] Insulet hires Pfizer alum Joan Campion to lead external comms - PRWeek [E28]
- [2026-08-11] Pfizer agrees to $44M Chantix settlement. See if you qualify - USA Today [E29]
- [2026-08-11] Pfizer Inc. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitors - MarketWatch [E30]
- [2026-08-11] Popular Drug At Center Of $44M Pfizer Settlement: How To File Claim - DailyVoice.com [E31]
Legal, Litigation & Adverse Media
Searched and found nothing naming this target: US federal securities enforcement (SEC litigation releases). NOT searched on this run: open-web adverse media (set SERPERAPI_KEY). State and county courts are not covered by any configured source._
Collection Log
Partial collection. 1 source(s) did not return data on this run (GDELT / global news: timeout). Their coverage is MISSING from this dossier, not inferred — treat the sections below as incomplete for those sources.
| Source | Status | Items | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | ✅ ok | 1 | — |
| GLEIF LEI registry | ✅ ok | 5 | — |
| SEC EDGAR | ✅ ok | 7 | — |
| SEC EDGAR full-text | ✅ ok | 8 | — |
| OpenCorporates registry | ⏭️ skipped | 0 | set OPENCORPORATES_API_TOKEN to enable global company-registry lookups (officers, incorporation, status) |
| OFAC sanctions (SDN + Consolidated) | ⚪ empty (source had nothing) | 0 | — |
| UN Security Council Consolidated List | ⚪ empty (source had nothing) | 0 | — |
| EU Consolidated Sanctions List | ⏭️ skipped | 0 | set EU_SANCTIONS_TOKEN to enable the EU consolidated sanctions list (free token from the EU FSD portal) — OFAC and UN lists still ran |
| SEC litigation releases | ⚪ empty (source had nothing) | 0 | — |
| Google News | ✅ ok | 12 | — |
| GDELT / global news | ⌛ timeout | 0 | This operation was aborted (api.gdeltproject.org) |
| Open-web search | ⏭️ skipped | 0 | set SERPER_API_KEY (serper.dev) to enable open-web litigation/sanctions/adverse-media search |
Sources
- [E1] Wikipedia — Pfizer (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:37Z)
- [E2] GLEIF — PFIZER — LEI record 549300TJP8I2YL03CQ60, published 2013-12-24 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:38Z)
- [E3] GLEIF — PFIZER — direct parent: PFIZER HOLDING FRANCE (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:38Z)
- [E4] GLEIF — Pfizer — LEI record 549300Z96Y9UZSGHWS54, published 2013-12-24 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:38Z)
- [E5] GLEIF — Pfizer — direct parent: PFIZER INC. (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:39Z)
- [E6] GLEIF — PFIZER - Pfizer Moyen Terme — LEI record 529900DUOU39LFAI2U90, published 2014-01-21 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:39Z)
- [E7] SEC EDGAR — PFIZER INC — EDGAR filer profile (CIK 78003) (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:39Z)
- [E8] SEC EDGAR — 10-Q filed 2026-08-04 — PFIZER INC, published 2026-08-04 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:39Z)
- [E9] SEC EDGAR — 8-K filed 2026-08-04 — PFIZER INC, published 2026-08-04 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:39Z)
- [E10] SEC EDGAR — 8-K filed 2026-06-18 — PFIZER INC, published 2026-06-18 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:39Z)
- [E11] SEC EDGAR — 8-K filed 2026-06-18 — PFIZER INC, published 2026-06-18 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:39Z)
- [E12] SEC EDGAR — 10-Q filed 2026-05-05 — PFIZER INC, published 2026-05-05 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:39Z)
- [E13] SEC EDGAR — 8-K filed 2026-05-05 — PFIZER INC, published 2026-05-05 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:39Z)
- [E14] SEC EDGAR full-text — "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2016-02-29, published 2016-02-29 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:40Z)
- [E15] SEC EDGAR full-text — "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2009-02-27, published 2009-02-27 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:40Z)
- [E16] SEC EDGAR full-text — "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2012-02-28, published 2012-02-28 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:40Z)
- [E17] SEC EDGAR full-text — "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2015-02-27, published 2015-02-27 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:40Z)
- [E18] SEC EDGAR full-text — "Pfizer" named in EX-10.49 filed by INCYTE CORP (INCY) (CIK 0000879169) on 2006-03-03, published 2006-03-03 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:40Z)
- [E19] SEC EDGAR full-text — "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2018-02-22, published 2018-02-22 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:40Z)
- [E20] SEC EDGAR full-text — "Pfizer" named in EX-21 filed by PFIZER INC (PFE) (CIK 0000078003) on 2019-02-28, published 2019-02-28 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:40Z)
- [E21] SEC EDGAR full-text — "Pfizer" named in EX-1.1 filed by Animal Health International, Inc. (CIK 0001372813) on 2008-04-07, published 2008-04-07 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:40Z)
- [E22] News — Pluang — Pfizer shifts focus from COVID to non-COVID gro... - Pluang, published 2026-08-12 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E23] News — finance.yahoo.com — Pfizer (PFE) Agreed To A $44 Million Chantix Settlement - finance.yahoo.com, published 2026-08-12 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E24] News — Trefis — $49 Billion In Payouts, A Lagging Stock: The PFE Trade-Off - Trefis, published 2026-08-11 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E25] News — Seeking Alpha — Pfizer's Pipeline Could Change Everything (NYSE:PFE) - Seeking Alpha, published 2026-08-11 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E26] News — The Motley Fool — Pfizer Just Raised Its 2026 Guidance -- but the Boost Leans Heavily on a Drug Running Out the Patent Clock - The Motley Fool, published 2026-08-11 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E27] News — Zacks Investment Research — Pfizer Rises Almost 7% Post Q2 Results: How to Play the Stock - Zacks Investment Research, published 2026-08-10 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E28] News — PRWeek — Insulet hires Pfizer alum Joan Campion to lead external comms - PRWeek, published 2026-08-11 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E29] News — USA Today — Pfizer agrees to $44M Chantix settlement. See if you qualify - USA Today, published 2026-08-11 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E30] News — MarketWatch — Pfizer Inc. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitors - MarketWatch, published 2026-08-11 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E31] News — DailyVoice.com — Popular Drug At Center Of $44M Pfizer Settlement: How To File Claim - DailyVoice.com, published 2026-08-11 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E32] News — NewsNation — OB-GYN claims leaked Pfizer COVID vaccine data showed 82% miscarriage rate | Katie Pavlich Tonight - NewsNation, published 2026-08-11 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
- [E33] News — MarketBeat — Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) Shares Down 1.6% - Here's What Happened - MarketBeat, published 2026-08-11 (retrieved 2026-08-13T00:37:41Z)
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