Pearson plc

PSO stock score: 57/100

$18.24 · +0.27% · Scored Oct 20, 2026

Technical
68
Fundamental
45
News
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The reading

Pearson (PSO) scores 57 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 70% of Communication Services stocks and 64% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 68, fundamentals 45.

Among the fundamentals, Institutional Ownership at 100 and Inventory Turnover at 99 score highest, while Price Target at 1 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 73 and contrarian oscillators 15 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 48 to 72, and it is down 14 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward PSO’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

45

Pulling it up

  • Institutional Ownership100

    Institutional ownership measures the percentage held by professional investors.

  • Inventory Turnover99

    Inventory turnover is how many times a year a company sells through its inventory.

  • Current Ratio95

    Current ratio measures ability to pay short-term liabilities with current assets.

Holding it back

  • Price Target1

    Price target score compares the current stock price to analyst consensus targets.

  • Earnings Estimates7

    Earnings estimates score evaluates analyst projections for future profitability.

  • Earnings Growth (Annual)8

    Annual earnings growth tracks year-over-year profit expansion.

38 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

65

Pulling it up

  • Know Sure Thing (KST)100

    Know Sure Thing (KST) combines multiple rate-of-change calculations to identify long-term trend reversals.

  • Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO)100

    Percentage Price Oscillator shows the difference between two moving averages as a percentage.

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

Holding it back

  • Candlestick Patterns0

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

  • Bollinger Bands (50)0

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

  • Williams %R (28)0

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly551
Daily653
Weekly712
Monthly722
Quarterly732

Composite score, last 90 days

05010057Jul 25, 2026Oct 20, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 71Jul 26, 2026: 71Jul 27, 2026: 72Jul 28, 2026: 72Jul 29, 2026: 72Jul 30, 2026: 72Jul 31, 2026: 56Aug 2, 2026: 56Aug 3, 2026: 59Aug 6, 2026: 58Aug 7, 2026: 55Aug 8, 2026: 55Aug 9, 2026: 55Aug 10, 2026: 55Aug 11, 2026: 55Aug 12, 2026: 54Aug 13, 2026: 55Aug 14, 2026: 55Aug 15, 2026: 55Aug 16, 2026: 55Aug 17, 2026: 55Aug 18, 2026: 54Aug 19, 2026: 56Aug 23, 2026: 56Aug 24, 2026: 56Aug 25, 2026: 56Aug 26, 2026: 55Aug 27, 2026: 55Aug 28, 2026: 57Aug 29, 2026: 56Aug 30, 2026: 57Aug 31, 2026: 56Sep 1, 2026: 56Sep 2, 2026: 55Sep 4, 2026: 54Sep 5, 2026: 53Sep 6, 2026: 54Sep 7, 2026: 54Sep 8, 2026: 53Sep 9, 2026: 53Sep 10, 2026: 52Sep 11, 2026: 53Sep 12, 2026: 53Sep 13, 2026: 53Sep 14, 2026: 55Sep 15, 2026: 54Sep 16, 2026: 54Sep 17, 2026: 54Sep 18, 2026: 53Sep 19, 2026: 48Sep 20, 2026: 48Sep 21, 2026: 54Sep 22, 2026: 55Sep 23, 2026: 56Sep 24, 2026: 56Sep 25, 2026: 56Sep 26, 2026: 56Sep 27, 2026: 56Sep 28, 2026: 54Sep 29, 2026: 54Sep 30, 2026: 55Oct 1, 2026: 56Oct 2, 2026: 56Oct 3, 2026: 56Oct 4, 2026: 56Oct 5, 2026: 56Oct 6, 2026: 57Oct 7, 2026: 57Oct 8, 2026: 57Oct 9, 2026: 57Oct 10, 2026: 57Oct 11, 2026: 57Oct 12, 2026: 57Oct 13, 2026: 57Oct 14, 2026: 57Oct 15, 2026: 57Oct 16, 2026: 57Oct 17, 2026: 57Oct 18, 2026: 57Oct 19, 2026: 57Oct 20, 2026: 57
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Key facts

Market cap
$11.0B
Sector
Communication Services
Industry
Publishing
Beta
-0.05
Risk grade (1–10)
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Next earnings
Jul 31, 2026

Publishing peers

CompanyMarket capScore
NYT The New York Times Company$11.2B61
WLY John Wiley & Sons$2.6B64

Questions

What is PSO's stock score today?

PSO scores 57/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 20, 2026: technical 68, fundamental 45. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is PSO a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 57 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the PSO score calculated?

100 weighted scorers feed it today: 38 fundamental, scored against Communication Services ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.