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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

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Forward P/E15.1

P25 9.1P50 13.9P75 26.1

Trailing P/E19.9

P25 9.5P50 16.4P75 38.9

ROE8.7

P25 -39P50 -0.5P75 11.8

ROIC7.7

P25 -10.3P50 2.5P75 10

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Indicator catalog

All PSO market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 264 of 264 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000938323
Company name	Pearson plc
Country	United Kingdom
Country code	US
Cusip	705015105
Employees	17,062
Employees Change	38%
Employees Change Percent	0.22
Enterprise value	$10.6B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	GBP
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Publishing
IPO Date	2000-09-01
Isin	US7050151056
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$9B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$14.86
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	282,163.08x
Sector	Communication Services
Sic	2731
Symbol	PSO
Website	https://plc.pearson.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	5.02%
EV Earnings	23.44x
EV Sales Forward	2.79x
EV/EBIT	15.55x
EV/EBITDA	13.4x
EV/FCF	12.36x
EV/Sales	2.2x
FCF yield	9.52%
Forward P/E	15.08x
P/B ratio	1.82x
P/E ratio	19.92x
P/S ratio	1.87x
PE Ratio10 Y	20.47x
PE Ratio3 Y	18.08x
PE Ratio5 Y	18.32x
PS Forward	2.37x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	14.12%
EBITDA Margin	16.38%
FCF margin	17.76%
Gross margin	52%
Gross Profit	$2.5B
Gross Profit Growth	2.71%
Gross Profit Growth Q	7.1%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	1.19%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	2.68%
Net Income	$450.9M
Net Income Growth	-22.81%
Net Income Growth Q	-38.27%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	11.45%
Net Income Growth5 Y	0.3%
Pretax Margin	12.78%
Profit Margin	9.37%
Profit Per Employee	$26,426
Profitable Years	9
ROA	4.73
Roa5y	4.14
ROCE	9.53
ROE	8.71
Roe5y	7.68
ROIC	7.71
Roic5y	7.73

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	5.44%
Cagr15y	1.99%
Cagr1y	-3.66%
Cagr20y	3.79%
Cagr3y	15.58%
Cagr5y	7.19%
Div CAGR10	-7.3%
Div CAGR3	7.51%
Div CAGR5	4.45%
EPS Growth	-20.16
EPS Growth Q	-35.7
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	15.86
EPS Growth5 Y	3.02
FCF Growth	5.56%
FCF Growth Q	-16.39%
FCF Growth3 Y	27.29%
FCF Growth5 Y	13.29%
OCF Growth	4.63%
OCF Growth Q	-15.94%
OCF Growth10 Y	12.01%
OCF Growth3 Y	22.03%
OCF Growth5 Y	11.02%
Revenue Growth	0.7x
Revenue Growth Q	3.17x
Revenue Growth Years	1x
Revenue Growth3 Y	-2.35x
Revenue Growth5 Y	1.04x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.54
Assets	$8.7B
Cash	$448.2M
Current Assets	$3.2B
Current Liabilities	$1.6B
Debt	$2B
Debt EBITDA	$2.39
Debt Equity	$0.41
Debt FCF	$2.34
Equity	$4.9B
Interest Coverage	6.73
Liabilities	$3.8B
Long Term Assets	$5.5B
Long Term Liabilities	$2.2B
Net Cash	$-1.5B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-17.25
Net Debt EBITDA	$1.96
Net Debt Equity	$0.31
Net Debt FCF	$1.81
Tangible Book Value	$860M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$1.35
WACC	3.76

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	2
Inventory Turnover	24.53
Net Working Capital	$1.2B
Quick ratio	0.95
Working Capital	$1.6B
Working Capital Turnover	$4.4

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	3.47%
Dividend Growth	7.32%
Dividend Growth Years	3%
Dividend per share	$0.34
Dividend Years	26
Dividend Yield	2.29%
Ex Div Date	2026-03-20
Last Dividend	$0.23
Payout Frequency	Semi-Annual
Payout Ratio	49.95%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	69.76%
1Y total return	-3.66%
200-day SMA	13.76
3Y total return	54.43%
50-day SMA	13.69
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	41.48%
All Time High	30.56
All Time High Change	-51.38%
All Time High Date	2000-09-01
All Time Low	5.08
All Time Low Change	192.52%
All Time Low Date	2020-05-14
ATR	0.28
Beta	-0.09
Ch YTD	5.84
High	14.95
High52	16.67
High52 Date	2025-05-23
High52ch	-10.86%
Low	14.77
Low52	12.02
Low52 Date	2026-02-04
Low52ch	23.63%
Ma50ch	8.51%
Premarket Change Percent	-0.73
Premarket Price	$14.96
Premarket Volume	6,220
Price vs 200-day SMA	7.97%
RSI	61.72
RSI Monthly	56.51
RSI Weekly	59.87
Sharpe ratio	-0.2x
Sortino ratio	-0.04
Total Return	5.76%
Tr YTD	7.76
Tr15y	34.31%
Tr1m	10.98%
Tr1w	-1.46%
Tr3m	23.41%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	1
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Operating Income	$679.7M
Operating Income Growth	-10.93
Operating Income Growth Q	-11
Operating Income Growth3 Y	19.09
Operating Income Growth5 Y	16.83
Operating margin	14.12

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	598,280,826%
Float Percent	94.2%
Net Borrowing	-46,352,216.9
Shares Insiders	0.38%
Shares Institutions	93.09%
Shares Out	635,089,855
Shares Qo Q	-3.1%
Shares Yo Y	-3.47%
Short Ratio	3.02
Short Shares	0.68

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$802.3M
Average Volume	1,126,348.4x
Bv Per Share	7.73
CAPEX	$-39M
Ch10y	25.4
Ch15y	-19.98
Ch1m	10.98
Ch1w	-1.46
Ch1y	-6.07
Ch20y	2.27
Ch3m	21.21
Ch3y	43.99
Ch5y	25.4
Ch6m	13.78
Change	-1.39%
Change From Open	-0.6
Close	15.07
Days Gap	-0.8
Depreciation Amortization	110,427,340.2
Dollar Volume	13,856,132.7
Earnings Date	2026-02-27
EBIT	$679.7M
EBITDA	$788.7M
EPS	$0.68
F Score	7
FCF	$854.8M
FCF EV Yield	8.09x
FCF Per Share	$1.35
Financing CF	-819,650,067
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,844
Goodwill	3,306,003,702.7
Graham Number	11.70189
Graham Upside	-21.25
Income Tax	$162.9M
Investing CF	-327,052,490
Is Primary Listing	0
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-02-27
Last Report Date	2025-12-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-03-13
Lynch Fair Value	$3.73
Lynch Upside	-74.9
Ma150	13.56
Ma150ch	9.56%
Ma20	14.63
Ma20ch	1.6%
Net CF	-282,637,954
Open	14.95
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	10.51
P OCF Ratio	10.17
Payment Date	2026-05-15
Position In Range	50
Post Close	14.86
Postmarket Change Percent	0.07
Postmarket Price	$14.87
Ppne	286,293,104.2
Pre Close	15.07
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$11.39
Ptbv Ratio	10.44
Relative Volume	0.83x
Revenue	4,814,266,487x
SBC By Revenue	1.09x
Share Based Comp	52,489,906
Tax By Revenue	3.38x
Tax Rate	26.48%
Tr20y	110.51%
Tr6m	15.85%
Volume	932,445
Z Score	2.76

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Moat score

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Forward P/E

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

PSO dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+2.3%

$0.34 annual per share

Payout ratio

+49.9%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+4.4%

3 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+5.8%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-03-20

Performance

PSO stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns PSO?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+93.1%

Float: +94.2% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.4%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

PSO momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

61.7

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+8.0%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

-0.09

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

-0.20

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

PSO vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
DIS	The Walt Disney Company	187.6B	17.3x	1.9x	9.2%	+10.8%	+7.0%	Conserver
GOOGL	Alphabet Inc.	4.9T	30.6x	11.5x	28.3%	+16.5%	+165.7%	Acheter
META	Meta Platforms Inc.	1.5T	22.2x	7.2x	29.8%	+17.9%	+2.5%	Achat fort

Questions

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