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Pearson H2 2025 earnings summary
Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.H2 2025 earnings summary27 Feb, 2026
Executive summary
Achieved 4% revenue/underlying sales growth and 6% profit increase in 2025, with margin expansion to 17.2%.
Embedded AI-driven innovation across products, improving learner engagement and outcomes, and delivering operational efficiencies.
Secured long-term enterprise contracts and strategic partnerships, growing revenue backlog to hundreds of millions through 2030.
Strategic focus on core assessments, virtual schools, and expansion in early careers and enterprise skilling.
2026 guidance includes further sales and profit growth, margin improvement, and continued investment in innovation.
Financial highlights
Adjusted EPS up 4% to GBP 0.645 (64.5p); 9% at constant FX rates.
Free cash flow conversion at 125% (98% excluding state aid recovery); free cash flow increased to GBP 527m.
Dividend increased by 5%; GBP 350 million share buyback commenced.
Net debt at GBP 1.1 billion; leverage at 1.3x EBITDA.
Return on capital up 80bps to 11.3%, over 250bps above post-tax WACC.
Outlook and guidance
2026 guidance: group sales of GBP 3.6bn and adjusted operating profit GBP 640–685 million.
Free cash conversion expected at 90–100%; effective tax rate ~25%; interest ~GBP 80 million.
Margin improvement of 40bps per annum targeted over the medium term.
Growth in all business units expected, with H2 weighting less pronounced than 2025.
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