Huge positive momentum Pearson

Because her big gain of 21 percent since early this year, the share is one of the better shares the sector. The average stock of the publishing sector yielded the this year a loss of 10 percent. Other strong performing shares of the sector are Mondadori Editore Cofina and RCS Mediagroup. Among the outperformers in the sector are Cofina , RCS Mediagroup and Mondadori Editore .

Momentum publishing sector

On average the sector trades now at 16 times the earnings per share. The sector trades at 4,32 times the book value per share. Since 2012 the sector has plus of 164 percent and since 2007 a plus of 108 percent.

For this year Pearson 's revenue will be around 4,15 billion GBp. This is according to the average of the analysts' estimates. This is slightly lower than 2017's revenue of 4,51 billion GBp.

Historical revenues and results Pearson plus estimates 2018

The analysts expect for 2018 a net profit of 484 million GBp. The majority of the analysts expects for this year a profit per share of 59 GBp. Based on this the price/earnings-ratio is 15,08.

For this year most of the analysts expect a dividend of 19 GBp per share. The dividend yield is then 2,13 percent. The average dividend yield of the publishers is a limited 1 percent.

Recent target prices around 815 GBp

Barclays , Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse recently provided recommendations for the stock.

Pearson 's market capitalization is based on the number of outstanding shares around 724,82 billion GBp. The Pearson stock was the past 12 months quite unstable. Since last November the stock is even 33 percent higher. This year the stock price moved between 651 and 973 GBp. Since 2008 the stock price is almost 49 percent higher.

Historical stock prices Pearson

At 17.53 the stock trades 1,87 percent lower at 890 GBp.

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