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Pearson PLC PSO
11 fiscal years on record · GBP · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
Growth
GBP 3.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 11-year series below
Revenue £B
Net income £B
FY2025 · Revenue 3.6 · Net income 0.3
Compound annual growth
−2.3%
+1.0%
−2.2%
+11.4%
+0.3%
−8.6%
+15.9%
−59.0%
−6.7%
+4.9%
+8.0%
−6.7%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue compounded at +1.0% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +0.3%, earnings per share at −59.0%.
The share count fell from 0.75B to 0.64B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Profitability
9 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin
Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 14.2% · Net 9.4%
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 8.7%
Each GBP of equity produced 9 cents of profit this year.
The 11-year record
11 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · GBP
row low → row highnegative
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue £B | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| Operating income £B | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | −2.5 | −0.4 |
| EBITDA £B | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | · |
| Income tax £B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | −0.0 | 0.1 | −0.0 | −0.1 | 0.0 | −0.2 | −0.1 |
| Net income £B | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | −2.3 | 0.8 |
| Free cash flow £B | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| EPS, diluted £ | 0.51 | 0.64 | 0.53 | 0.33 | 0.23 | 43.70 | 0.34 | 75.50 | 49.90 | −2.87 | 1.01 |
| Dividend / sh £ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | 48 | 36 | 41 | 64 | 84 | 44 | 56 | 23 | 78 | −18 | 51 |
| ROE % | 8.7 | 10.8 | 9.0 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 7.8 | 6.0 | 13.8 | 9.7 | −53.8 | · |
| Shares out B | 0.64 | 0.67 | 0.70 | 0.72 | 0.76 | 0.75 | 0.78 | 0.78 | 0.80 | 0.82 | 0.82 |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 3 failures in 45 reconciliationsAUDITED
Reconciled in 8 of 19 fiscal years. 50 checks could not be computed.
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente3 failures
ActivityBooks: Publishing or Publishing & Printing
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code X0
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2015