PSONYSEBooks: Publishing or Publishing & PrintingFiscal year ends December 31Also trades as PSORF

PEARSON PLC

Financials through fiscal 2025, year ended Dec 31, 2025

$18.19−0.05 (-0.27%)

Close on Oct 19, 2026

Debt

Borrowings on the balance sheet, Dec 31, 2025

Total debt

£1.48B

£62.00M due within a year

Net debt

£1.15B

After £333.00M of cash

Implied interest rate

6.64%

FY2025 interest ÷ average debt

Interest coverage

5.2×

FY2025 operating income ÷ interest

Total debt by fiscal year

Long-term plus current debt, GBP

Bond issues

Individual notes and bonds outstanding

Bond-level data is not connected yet

Coupon, maturity and amount of each note will come from the debt footnote in Pearson's annual report. Trading prices and yields need FINRA TRACE data.

Where these numbers come from

Parsed from the XBRL in Pearson's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC
Fourth quarters derived from the annual report minus nine months
Every figure in the statements links to its source filing

Against peers

Trailing twelve months. Peers are matched on business description, industry and size. Ticks are peers, the dot is PSO.

Revenue growth0.7% · median 0.1%

Gross margin52.0% · median 65.5%

Operating margin14.2% · median 10.3%

Net margin9.4% · median 4.4%

Company	Revenue	Growth
NWSA	$9.03B	+6.8%
CMPR	$3.74B	+9.8%
PSO	£3.58B	+0.7%
MH	$2.12B	+0.1%
WLY	$1.67B	-0.3%
SCHL	$1.57B	-2.5%

Company

Exchange: NYSE
Industry: Books: Publishing or Publishing & Printing
Fiscal year ends: December 31
Employees: 4,722
Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
SEC CIK: 938323

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