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

UK-listed Pearson is a testing and educational provider. Pearson's primary operations are in assessment and qualifications, testing and higher education, but they also provide English education and testing, virtual learning, prehiring testing and screening, and upskilling/reskilling. The company divested noncore businesses, including the Financial Times, The Economist, and the publishing house Penguin, and is now focused on serving as an educational resource and testing provider.

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

As of October 12, 2026, PSO stock price climbed to $17.24 with 334,123 million shares trading.

PSO has a beta of 0.59, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. PSO has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

PSO has a market cap of $10.36 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, PSO traded as high as $17.90 and as low as $10.84.

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

PSO has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +26.6% while the SPY ETF gained +17.0%. However, in the short term, PSO had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +2.8% vs +3.7% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, PSO shares have fared better than the market returning +6.9% compared to SPY +0.8%.

PSO support price is $16.75 and resistance is $17.19 (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.