Pearson Plc
PSO NYSE· Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing
Last close · Oct 30, 2026
$17.37
KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words
- Pearson Plc had $4.7B of revenue in fiscal 2025, up 3.8% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed +1.6% a year on average.
- Its operating margin was 14.2%, down 1.1 pts: of every 100 in sales, about 14 is left after running the business.
- Pearson Plc made $441M of net profit in fiscal 2025.
- Pearson Plc returned $211M to shareholders in fiscal 2025. The diluted share count fell 3.5%.
- Pearson Plc owes $1.5B more than it holds in cash, about 2.1 years of operating profit.
Market cap
$11.5B
P/E
26.0x
Revenue
$4.7B
Net income
$441M
Free cash flow
—
Operating margin
14.2%
Pearson Plc in 30 seconds · fiscal 2025
Are sales growing?
+3.8%
Only a little. Sales grew 3.8% last year.
Does it make a profit?
9.4%
A little. It keeps 9.4% of every sale as profit.
Is debt under control?
2.1x
Keep an eye on it. Repaying its debt would take 2.1 years of operating profit.
How healthy are the accounts?
6 / 8
Mixed. It passes 6 of 8 health tests.
How is the share priced?
26.0x
One share costs 26.0 times its yearly profit per share.
What Pearson Plc does
No business description yet.
- Fiscal year ends
- December 31, 2025
- Latest annual report
- 20-F · Mar 13, 2026
- Legal name
- PEARSON PLC
- CIK
- 0000938323
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Results and finances
The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD. Compiled by stoqly.net.
| Fiscal year | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and profit | |||||
| Revenue | $4.7B | $4.7B | $4.6B | $4.5B | $4.7B |
| Revenue growth | 8.3% | 0.3% | −3.5% | −0.6% | 3.8% |
| Gross margin | 49.0% | 46.7% | 49.9% | 51.0% | 52.0% |
| Operating margin | 5.3% | 7.1% | 13.6% | 15.2% | 14.2% |
| Net income | $243M | $298M | $470M | $555M | $441M |
| Net margin | 5.2% | 6.3% | 10.3% | 12.2% | 9.4% |
| Diluted EPS | $0.32 | $0.40 | $0.66 | $0.81 | $0.67 |
| Cash | |||||
| Cash from operations | $448M | $445M | $653M | $801M | $864M |
| Capital expenditure | $88.0M | — | — | — | — |
| Free cash flow | $360M | — | — | — | — |
| FCF margin | 7.6% | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends paid | $205M | $192M | $191M | $199M | $211M |
| Share count change | 0.5% | −2.3% | −3.3% | −4.6% | −3.5% |
| Debt and strength | |||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $1.3B | $671M | $397M | $680M | $448M |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $1.9B | $1.5B | $1.5B | $1.8B | $2.0B |
| Shareholders' equity | $5.8B | $5.3B | $5.1B | $5.1B | $4.9B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.9x | 2.0x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 2.1x |
| Interest coverage | 2.7x | 3.8x | 6.1x | 4.8x | 5.2x |
| Returns and quality | |||||
| Return on capital | 3.9% | 4.1% | 7.8% | 9.5% | 7.6% |
| Return on equity | 4.3% | 5.4% | 9.1% | 11.0% | 8.8% |
| Return on tangible equity | 8.5% | 12.9% | 24.0% | 27.6% | 26.8% |
| Piotroski F-score | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Insiders bought, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Insiders sold, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Of sales under plans
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$0.0M
How to read these numbers
- Revenue:
- Total sales reported in the income statement.
- Operating margin:
- Operating income as a share of revenue.
- Net income:
- Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
- Free cash flow:
- Cash from operations minus capital spending.
- Net debt / EBITDA:
- Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
- Return on capital:
- After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
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Charts and comparison
Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.
Revenue
Net income
Margins, % of revenue
Cash vs debt (incl. leases)
Free cash flow
Dividends and buybacks
KIRA
At $17.37 a share, the company is worth $11.5B: 26.0 times its earnings of the last four quarters.
Compiled and analysed by stoqly.net from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0000938323). Latest version: stoqly.net/companies/pso. Data updated November 1, 2026. Filed in GBP under IFRS and converted to US$: income and cash-flow lines at each period's average exchange rate, balance-sheet lines at the period-end rate. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.