Pearson Stock Forecast, Price & News

14 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Pearson in the last twelve months. There are currently 6 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" Pearson stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in PSO, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Pearson's stock was trading at $6.94 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, PSO shares have increased by 59.4% and is now trading at $11.06.
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Pearson declared a semi-annual dividend on Friday, March 12th. Investors of record on Friday, March 26th will be given a dividend of $0.1885 per share on Wednesday, May 12th. This represents a yield of 2.3%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 25th. This is a positive change from Pearson's previous semi-annual dividend of $0.08.
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Pearson pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.43%. Pearson does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Pearson is 51.35%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Pearson will have a dividend payout ratio of 65.52% next year. This indicates that Pearson will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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36 employees have rated Pearson CEO Andy Bird on Glassdoor.com. Andy Bird has an approval rating of 89% among Pearson's employees.

Some companies that are related to Pearson include John Wiley & Sons (JW.B), Scholastic (SCHL), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMHC), William H. Sadlier (SADL) and Lingo Media (LMDCF).
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Pearson trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PSO."

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One share of PSO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $11.06.

Pearson has a market capitalization of $8.34 billion and generates $4.94 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $337.10 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.74 on an earnings per share basis.

Pearson employs 20,000 workers across the globe.

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Ltd, Global Education, Global George I Limited, Global George II Limited, GlobalEnglish, Globe Fearon Inc., Guangzhou Crescent Software Co. Ltd, Heinemann Education Botswana (Publishers) (Proprietary) Limited, Heinemann Publishers (Pty) Ltd, INTELLIPRO INC., Icodeon Limited, IndiaCan Education Private Limited, Integral 7 Inc., Integrated Analytics LLC, J M Soluções Exportação e Importação Ltda, K12 Learning Services LLC, Kagiso Education Pty Ltd, Knowledge Analysis Technologies LLC, LCCI International Qualifications (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., LCCIEB Training Consultancy. 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Pearson was founded in 1998.

The official website for Pearson is www.pearson.com.

Pearson is headquartered at 80 Strand, London X0, WC2R 0RL.

Pearson's mailing address is 80 Strand, London X0, WC2R 0RL. The company can be reached via phone at 44-20-7010-2000 or via email at [email protected]