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Pearson

Pearson has it' headquarter based in London. The core activities of Pearson are in the publishing sector. The global publishers lost over the past 10 years on average 26 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is -11 percent lower and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a minus of 26 percent.

The past year was a profitable year for the Pearson investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in Pearson. The stock gained around 9 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a bad period for the investors. The stock lost around 30 percent. Pearson's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 495,9 billion GBp and 446,8 billion GBp. Pearson's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 83,8 billion GBp and 22,26 billion GBp.

The English company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years Pearson's dividend yield was at around 238 percent per year. In the period 2011 till 2015 Pearson paid it's investors each year a higher dividend per share. So we could call Pearson a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Pearson' balance mostly consists of equity

At the end of 2015 the English company's balance sheet was worth 1163,5 billion GBp. Of the total balance sheet 522,1 billion GBp (44,87 percent) was financed by debt. The English company's price/earnings-ratio was 43. So the market valued the stock at 43 times the 2015' earnings per share. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the English company's market capitalization equaled around 598,59 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the English company had around 813,3 million stocks listed on the exchanges.

All the company's financial reports are available here. More information about Pearson can be found it's website. .