PSO Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Pearson PLC | NYSE:PSO)

U.K.-listed Pearson is the world's largest educational provider. The company has been disposing of noncore businesses such as the Financial Times, The Economist, and publishing house Penguin, and is now focused on being an educational resource and testing provider. While Pearson's primary activity centres on higher-level education, the firm also has significant operations in providing clinical assessments, professional certification and testing.

Pearson PLC trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol PSO.

As of March 14, 2025, PSO stock price was flat at $16.46 with 489,276 million shares trading.

PSO has a market cap of $10.93 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, PSO traded as high as $17.90 and as low as $8.84.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that PSO belongs to (by Net Assets): PID, DFIC, APIE, DFAX, AADR.

PSO has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +28.1% while the SPY ETF gained +11.0%. PSO has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +2.3% and -4.6%, respectively, while the SPY returned -6.5% and -5.3%, respectively.

PSO support price is $16.26 and resistance is $16.66 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that PSO shares will trade within this expected range on the day.