With 0.67 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.78 million shares. During the session, the Publishing company that operates in wider Communication Services sector, reached to the highest price of $16.055 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $15.855. The 52-week range on PSO shows that it touched its highest point at $17.90 and its lowest point at $11.78 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.53. With its current market cap of 10.81 billion, PSO has annualized dividend of $0.31 while the current yield stands at 1.93%. PSO paid its most recent dividend on 1742515200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1742515200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.60.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of PSO was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.63%, but this was up by 0.95% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -5.07% while six-month performance rose 2.58%. The stock gained 27.67% in the past year, while it has lost -1.24% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PSO yields 0.81 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.94. For the next quarter, that number is 0.35. This implies an EPS growth rate of 10.69% for this year and 10.22% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.42% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 13.71%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 679.27 million PSO shares are outstanding with a float of 679.22 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-30, short shares totaled 1.77 million, which was 27.0 higher than short shares on 1743379200. In addition to Mr. Omar Paul Abbosh as the firm’s CEO & Executive Director, Ms. Sally Kate Miranda Johnson serves as its CFO & Executive Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.02783 of PSO’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PSO since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With PSO analysts setting a high price target of 17.0 and a low target of 17.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 17.0. Based on these targets, PSO could surge 6.78% to reach the target high and rise by 6.78% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 6.78% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.62059 being high and $0.59702 being low. For PSO, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.61273.
