Sells cigarettes outside the United States and is shifting its portfolio toward heated tobacco and nicotine pouches.
Philip Morris International (PM) scores 6.8 out of 10 as of , computed from its reported financial statements. That reads as solid quality. The reading rests on profitability, and growth is what holds it back.
One pillar, solvency, is unscored because the filings behind it carry too little to judge. It is shown as a dash rather than a zero, and the overall score is the weighted average of what could be scored.
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Tobacco produces some of the highest and most predictable margins in any industry, and a purely financial reading will score it accordingly, a useful reminder that a quality score measures business quality, not whether you want to own it. Solvency is the pillar doing real work, since acquisitions have left meaningful leverage. Growth depends entirely on how the smoke-free transition lands.
The Quality Score for PM stands at 6.8 out of 10 as of October 14, 2026, which puts Philip Morris International in the solid quality band. This band covers companies that do several things well but not everything, so the pillar detail below matters more than the headline. It rolls Philip Morris International’s profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability into one number, each judged against the norms of its sector.
Too few Consumer Staples companies have a published score for a fair sector ranking yet, so Philip Morris International is compared with every company Lemma scores. Ranked with the 49 companies Lemma publishes, the score sits at the 71st percentile, above the middle of the group. The median across the group is 6.4, and the top quarter begins at 7.2, so Philip Morris International is in line with the typical company here.
Philip Morris International’s profitability score is 9.7 out of 10 (strong). Against a median of 8.1 among 34 companies, that is well above the group and the 94th percentile. High profitability means each unit of capital and of sales is turning into more profit than at most of its peers, which is usually the first sign of pricing power or a cost advantage.
Solvency has no score for Philip Morris International. Fewer than half of the pillar’s metric weight could be computed from the reported statements, so it is drawn as a dash and left out of the overall rather than counted as a zero. For context, the median solvency score across 39 companies is 7.6. Without it the overall says nothing about how comfortably the company carries its debt.
Growth scores 4.2 out of 10, which reads as average. The median across 47 companies is 5.3, so Philip Morris International is below its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 39th percentile. Average growth reflects a business expanding at roughly the pace of its sector, without a clear acceleration or decline.
Efficiency scores 5.7 out of 10, which reads as average. The median across 45 companies is 6.3, so Philip Morris International is below its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 39th percentile. Middling efficiency is unremarkable on its own, though improvements here tend to show up in free cash flow first.
Philip Morris International’s predictability score is 6.7 out of 10 (average). Against a median of 5.6 among 49 companies, that is above the group and the 63rd percentile. Middling predictability suggests some volatility in the record, enough to read the other pillars with a little caution.
The gap between Philip Morris International’s best and worst pillar is wide: profitability at 9.7 against growth at 4.2, 5.5 points apart. An average of two readings this different deserves a closer look than the headline number. A profitability lead usually reflects something durable in the business model rather than a good year. Slow growth limits how fast the business can compound, even when everything else is in order.
The pillar with the most room to move the score is growth. If it rose to the median of every company scored, 5.3, Philip Morris International’s overall score would go from 6.8 to about 7.1. With one pillar unscored, the overall rests on 80 of the 100 weight points, spread across the four pillars that could be measured (the full set is profitability 25, solvency 20, growth 20, efficiency 15, predictability 20).
To see what separates similar readings, compare Philip Morris International with the companies below, whose overall scores are nearest to its own.
How much profit the company generates from its capital and sales.
The company’s ability to service debt and meet its obligations.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are compounding.
How well assets and earnings convert into cash and output.
How stable and consistent results have been over time.
Each metric is scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks, where higher is better. Metrics roll up into five pillars, and the pillars combine into the overall score using the weights shown. Sector-sensitive metrics are judged relative to peers in the same sector.
This score is a systematic, backward-looking read of reported fundamentals. It does not judge valuation, management quality, competitive moat, or future prospects, and can be distorted by one-off items or unusual accounting. Treat it as a starting point, not a recommendation.
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On this reading Philip Morris International scores 6.8 out of 10, which reads as solid quality. Its strongest pillar is profitability, its weakest is growth. Quality is not the same as a good investment: the score says nothing about the price you would pay.
Philip Morris International ranks at the 71st percentile of the 49 companies Lemma publishes a score for. The median there is 6.4 and the top quarter starts at 7.2, against Philip Morris International’s 6.8.
Five pillars, each scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks and then weighted into one overall reading: profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability. Everything comes from reported financials, and nothing comes from price, sentiment or forecasts.
This page last changed on October 14, 2026. The score moves with the financial statements, so the page changes when a new filing moves the reading rather than on a schedule. Live figures for PM are in the app.
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