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Pearson (PSON) Competitors

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GBX 1,170 -0.50 (-0.04%)
As of 04/17/2025 12:57 PM Eastern

PSON vs. TRI, INF, ERM, FUTR, BMY, DODS, RCH, LBG, SNWS, and CNCT

Should you be buying Pearson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pearson include Trifast (TRI), Informa (INF), Euromoney Institutional Investor (ERM), Future (FUTR), Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY), Dods Group (DODS), Reach (RCH), LBG Media (LBG), Smiths News (SNWS), and Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L) (CNCT).

Pearson vs.

Pearson (LON:PSON) and Trifast (LON:TRI) are both communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.

In the previous week, Trifast had 7 more articles in the media than Pearson. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Trifast and 0 mentions for Pearson. Trifast's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Pearson's score of 0.80 indicating that Trifast is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pearson Positive
Trifast Positive

Pearson received 305 more outperform votes than Trifast when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.60% of users gave Trifast an outperform vote while only 54.59% of users gave Pearson an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PearsonOutperform Votes
713
54.59%
Underperform Votes
593
45.41%
TrifastOutperform Votes
408
81.60%
Underperform Votes
92
18.40%

Pearson pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Trifast pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Pearson pays out 44.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trifast pays out -62.4% 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. Trifast is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pearson£3.52B2.24£346.29M£51.5922.68
Trifast£239.48M0.38-£4.55M-£3.21-20.77

Pearson currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,224, suggesting a potential upside of 4.62%. Given Pearson's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Pearson is more favorable than Trifast.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pearson
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Trifast
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

83.7% of Pearson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.4% of Trifast shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Pearson shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of Trifast shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Pearson has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trifast has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Pearson has a net margin of 9.83% compared to Trifast's net margin of -1.90%. Pearson's return on equity of 8.98% beat Trifast's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pearson9.83% 8.98% 4.85%
Trifast -1.90%-3.47%2.47%

Summary

Pearson beats Trifast on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PSON vs. The Competition

MetricPearsonPublishing IndustryCommunication SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.90B£1.29B£3.25B£2.47B
Dividend Yield1.73%7.09%6.78%4.95%
P/E Ratio22.688.9421.28129.48
Price / Sales2.2474.72185.77231,299.35
Price / Cash17.4915.7116.1427.98
Price / Book2.091.324.404.44
Net Income£346.29M£59.19M£144.13M£5.80B
7 Day Performance0.26%3.81%2.01%3.14%
1 Month Performance-7.25%-2.61%-3.73%3.82%
1 Year Performance18.13%6.23%6.41%102.57%

Pearson Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PSON
Pearson
2.4388 of 5 stars
GBX 1,170
0.0%
GBX 1,224
+4.6%
+18.1%£7.90B£3.52B22.6821,400
TRI
Trifast
N/AGBX 60.22
+1.4%
N/A-12.4%£83.32M£239.48M-18.7824,400Dividend Cut
Negative News
Gap Up
INF
Informa
3.5089 of 5 stars
GBX 652.60
+0.7%
GBX 1,010
+54.8%
-12.1%£8.59B£3.28B28.1011,135Gap Up
ERM
Euromoney Institutional Investor
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.60B£365.16M14,600.002,567High Trading Volume
FUTR
Future
3.199 of 5 stars
GBX 658.30
+1.7%
GBX 1,060
+61.0%
+8.9%£712.81M£722.78M8.432,937Dividend Announcement
Gap Up
BMY
Bloomsbury Publishing
2.4482 of 5 stars
GBX 550
+3.8%
GBX 825
+50.0%
+5.1%£443.81M£382.40M11.7734,300Gap Up
DODS
Dods Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£436.55M£25.50M-125.00929Gap Down
RCH
Reach
N/AGBX 68.60
+2.7%
N/A+7.0%£216.47M£554.87M5.223,706Gap Up
LBG
LBG Media
N/AGBX 95.42
+1.5%
GBX 170
+78.2%
+42.2%£201.39M£80.68M29.47446Positive News
Gap Up
SNWS
Smiths News
N/AGBX 51.40
+8.2%
GBX 85
+65.4%
+7.8%£123.38M£1.11B4.841,489Dividend Increase
CNCT
Smiths News Plc (CNCT.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£63.41M£1.44B-1.413Gap Up

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This page (LON:PSON) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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