Pearson secures England's national curriculum assessment contract
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Pearson Releases 2023 Annual Report and Form 20-F
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Pearson to Expand Generative AI Study Tools to More Pearson+ eTextbooks
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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 April 19, 2024, PSO stock price declined to $12.29 with 159,707 million shares trading.
PSO has a beta of 0.79, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. PSO has a correlation of 0.22 to the broad based SPY ETF.
PSO has a market cap of $8.34 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, PSO stock traded as high as $13.18 and as low as $7.68.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that PSO belongs to (by Net Assets): PID, DFIC, APIE, DFAX, AVDE.
PSO has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +19.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +21.7%. In the last 3 month period, PSO fell short of the market, returning +2.2%, while SPY returned +4.7%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks PSO has outperformed the stock market by returning -3.0%, while SPY returned -3.1%.
PSO support price is $12.18 and resistance is $12.42 (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 stock will trade within this expected range on the day.