3 Things You Need to Know If You Buy Pfizer Today

The S&P 500 is offering a skinny yield of 1.2%. The average healthcare stock has a yield of 1.7%. Healthcare giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) is yielding a relatively huge 7.2%. Before you jump at that dividend, step back and consider these three facts. You might decide that other dividend stocks are more to your liking.Pfizer is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. Finding, developing, testing, and getting new drugs approved is a very difficult process. It requires a lot of money and time, not to mention skill and knowledge. With a market cap of $135 billion, Pfizer has plenty of scale to support its research efforts. And still, no matter how much money the company throws at research, finding new drugs is time-consuming, and the results are uncertain.Image source: Getty Images.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool