Pearson
1,222.00 GBpChange from previous close: −0.12%Absolute change: −1.50 GBp
Valuation
Data as of October 4, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- £7.35B
- Enterprise value
- £8.78B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 24.4
- Forward P/E
- 16.3
- PEG
- 1.64
- Price/book
- 2.19
- Price/sales
- 2.02
- EV/EBITDA
- 13.7
- EV/revenue
- 2.42
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 52.0%
- Operating margin
- 14.1%
- Net margin
- 8.8%
- ROE
- 9.2%
- ROA
- 5.1%
- ROIC
- 7.7%
Financial health
- Total cash
- £339M
- Total debt
- £1.76B
- Debt/equity
- 0.52
- Current ratio
- 2.00
- Quick ratio
- 1.20
- Altman Z-Score
- 2.42
- Piotroski F-Score
- 6.00
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- 0.25 GBp
- Dividend yield
- 2.1%
- Payout ratio
- 49.5%
- Ex-dividend date
- August 13, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- 1,244.54 GBp
- Analysts with a price target
- 11
- Consensus
- Hold
Shares and trading
- Beta
- -0.05
- Average volume
- 1.76M
- Shares outstanding
- 601.14M
- Float
- 593.91M
- Institutional ownership
- 87.8%
- Insider ownership
- 0.3%