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PSO vs. NWS, WLYB, WLY, WBTN, GCI, LEE, DALN, VSME, SOBR, and TME

Should you be buying Pearson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pearson include News (NWS), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Gannett (GCI), Lee Enterprises (LEE), DallasNews (DALN), VS MEDIA (VSME), SOBR Safe (SOBR), and Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME).

Pearson vs. Its Competitors

News (NASDAQ:NWS) and Pearson (NYSE:PSO) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.

14.6% of News shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Pearson shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.7% of News shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Pearson shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

News has a net margin of 5.18% compared to Pearson's net margin of 0.00%. News' return on equity of 5.64% beat Pearson's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
News5.18% 5.64% 3.09%
Pearson N/A N/A N/A

Pearson has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.21%. Given Pearson's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pearson is more favorable than News.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
News
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
4.00
Pearson
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.67

Pearson has lower revenue, but higher earnings than News. Pearson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than News, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
News$10.09B1.93$266M$0.8640.01
Pearson$4.54B2.20$554.61M$0.9416.06

News has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pearson has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

News pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Pearson pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. News pays out 23.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pearson pays out 46.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

In the previous week, Pearson had 7 more articles in the media than News. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Pearson and 5 mentions for News. News' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Pearson's score of 0.35 indicating that News is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
News
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Pearson
0 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

News beats Pearson on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PSO and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PSO vs. The Competition

MetricPearsonMEDIA CONGLOM IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$9.88B$17.00B$8.22B$20.43B
Dividend Yield2.95%2.66%3.29%3.76%
P/E Ratio16.0638.8520.5727.62
Price / Sales2.202.863.3136.40
Price / Cash11.9216.8617.1921.79
Price / Book1.941.844.544.52
Net Income$554.61M-$285.69M$212.83M$984.47M
7 Day Performance4.43%3.78%3.42%2.61%
1 Month Performance-5.77%8.64%9.73%4.99%
1 Year Performance21.68%46.73%9.71%13.53%

Pearson Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PSO
Pearson
3.8943 of 5 stars
$15.10
+1.1%
$18.00
+19.2%
+21.9%$9.88B$4.54B16.0617,116
NWS
News
0.7473 of 5 stars
$33.18
+1.8%
N/A+22.2%$18.46B$10.09B38.5825,500
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
2.2136 of 5 stars
$44.59
-1.8%
N/A+8.3%$2.45B$1.68B29.159,500Positive News
Dividend Increase
High Trading Volume
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
1.1748 of 5 stars
$43.91
+1.2%
N/A+6.9%$2.34B$1.68B28.706,400Positive News
Dividend Increase
Buyback Announcement
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
3.4557 of 5 stars
$8.37
+0.1%
$14.36
+71.5%
N/A$1.09B$1.35B-5.811,800News Coverage
Positive News
GCI
Gannett
3.6621 of 5 stars
$3.31
+0.6%
$5.55
+67.7%
-21.8%$481.77M$2.51B331.008,900
LEE
Lee Enterprises
0.3014 of 5 stars
$6.14
-0.3%
N/A-42.3%$38.19M$591.09M-0.844,360
DALN
DallasNews
0.5344 of 5 stars
$4.11
-1.0%
N/A+28.7%$22.21M$125.39M0.74660News Coverage
Positive News
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.7502 of 5 stars
$0.81
-17.2%
N/A-48.8%$7.82M$8.25M0.00N/AGap Down
SOBR
SOBR Safe
1.3135 of 5 stars
$2.94
-2.3%
N/A-98.1%$280K$210K-0.019
TME
Tencent Music Entertainment Group
2.6585 of 5 stars
$18.35
-0.7%
$16.60
-9.5%
+34.5%$31.71B$3.89B21.855,353Positive News

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