Valuation: Pearson plc

Market Cap 7.37B 9.83B 8.64B 8.03B 13.85B 947B 14.06B 95.37B 37.26B 466B 36.91B 36.12B 1,610B P/E 2026 *
19.4x
P/E 2027 * 17.5x
Enterprise Value 8.35B 11.14B 9.79B 9.1B 15.69B 1,073B 15.93B 108B 42.22B 527B 41.82B 40.92B 1,824B EV / Sales 2026 *
2.25x
EV / Sales 2027 * 2.14x
Free-Float
99.32%
Yield 2026 *
2.17%
Yield 2027 * 2.33%
Manager TitleAgeSince
Chief Executive Officer 60 2024-01-07
Director of Finance/CFO 53 2026-05-07
Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer 51 2024-07-01
Director TitleAgeSince
Director/Board Member 57 2025-10-31
Director/Board Member 62 2019-04-30
Chairman 63 2022-04-28
Change 5-day change 1-year change 3-year change Capi.($)
-.--%-.--% - - 9.64B
-2.17%-10.71%-41.10%+20.64% 4.97B
+0.21%+2.46%-14.38%-13.91% 3.6B
-0.94%-5.28%-7.02%+1.16% 3.15B
+0.45%-4.73%-14.09%-16.91% 2.84B
0.00%+0.89%-22.66%-10.79% 2.7B
+1.70%-2.79%+25.67%+48.53% 2.49B
-0.81%-4.83%-13.27%-43.95% 2.02B
+0.46%-4.96%-41.48%+30.20% 1.63B
+2.81%-0.34%-9.66%+30.80% 1.58B
Average +0.17%-3.91%-15.33%+5.09% 2.77B
Weighted average by Cap. -0.11%-4.31%-17.02%+4.36%

Financials

2026 *2027 *
Net sales 3.72B 4.96B 4.36B 4.05B 6.99B 478B 7.09B 48.11B 18.8B 235B 18.62B 18.22B 812B 3.89B 5.19B 4.56B 4.24B 7.31B 500B 7.42B 50.32B 19.66B 246B 19.47B 19.05B 849B
Net income 400M 533M 469M 436M 751M 51.37B 763M 5.17B 2.02B 25.26B 2B 1.96B 87.33B 429M 572M 502M 467M 805M 55.06B 818M 5.55B 2.17B 27.07B 2.15B 2.1B 93.59B
Net Debt 981M 1.31B 1.15B 1.07B 1.84B 126B 1.87B 12.69B 4.96B 61.94B 4.91B 4.81B 214B 943M 1.26B 1.1B 1.03B 1.77B 121B 1.8B 12.2B 4.77B 59.56B 4.72B 4.62B 206B
Logo Pearson plc
Pearson plc specializes in books publishing, namely educational books, higher education books and professional training books. The group also offers educational evaluation services and on-line learning service, as well as the operation of schools, colleges and universities. Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United Kingdom (13.7%), Europe (3.4%), the United States (68.8%), Asia/Pacific (8.8%), Canada (1.9%) and other (3.4%).
Employees
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Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
AA
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
OUTPERFORM
Number of Analysts
11
Last Close Price
12.26GBP
Average target price
12.24GBP
Spread / Average Target
-0.17%

Quarterly revenue - Rate of surprise