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Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC (PSO) is listed on NYSE and classified in Publishing, part of the Communication Services sector. It is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and has 13,665 employees. The company is worth $11.05B and trades at 27.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 16.1x. Revenue was £3.58B in fiscal 2025, up 0.7% from the year before. Net income was £335M. The share price is within 3% of its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.90%. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Steve Cohen (Point72 Asset Management), at $7.43M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Revenue, debt and profit are in GBP, the currency the company reports in — not converted to dollars. Dividends are in dollars.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +126.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,482.47▲ +148.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 4 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $14.04 | $16.12 | $12.29 | $11.27 | |
| EPS | £0.51 | £0.64 | £0.53 | £0.33 | |
| Dividend yield | 2.17% | 2.12% | 1.82% | 2.21% | 2.40% |
| Profit margin | 9.83% | 9.37% | 12.22% | 10.29% | 6.30% |
| ROE | 9.35% | 9.18% | 10.75% |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 16.1 among peers in the sector.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Communication Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYTNew York Times Co | $69.42 | 28.9x | 5.5x | 1.33% | 19.72% | $11.2B |
| SNAPSnap Inc | $6.35 | — | 5.5x | 0.00% | -15.58% | $10.74B |
| MTCHMatch Group, Inc. | $45.92 | 16.4x | — | 1.74% | — | $10.71B |
| GSATGlobalstar, Inc. | $82.38 |
| 9.51% |
| 5.50% |
This company reports in GBP, and the stock trades in dollars. P/E, P/S, P/B and payout would divide dollars by GBP, so they are not shown; EPS is in GBP. Margin, ROE and dividend yield do not depend on the currency.
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 9.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
3 methods answered, across 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-62.1% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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