R&D expense · 2015–2025

Pearson R&D expense

$10.6M+37.5% · FY2025

Pearson (PSO) reported $10.6M in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, +37.5% year on year.

$50.4M2015$31.1M2016$18.0M2017$18.7M2018$16.6M2019$14.1M2020$16.5M2021$12.3M2022$9.9M2023$7.7M2024$10.6M2025
Pearson — R&D expense, 2015–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$10.6M+37.5%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$7.7M−22.9%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$9.9M−19.5%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$12.3M−25.2%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$16.5M+16.9%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$14.1M−14.8%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$16.6M−11.3%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$18.7M+3.6%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$18.0M−41.9%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$31.1M−38.4%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$50.4M—Open →

R&D expense — Research and development expense is what the company charged to R&D in the income statement for the year. Most companies report no R&D at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the roughly 40% of filers that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2015–2025 compound annual growth −14.5%

Figures are reported under IFRS in GBP and converted to US dollars at ECB reference rates — fiscal 2025 average 0.758 GBP/$ for income items, year-end 0.743 GBP/$ for balance-sheet items.

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Wikipedia

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Pearson R\&D expense}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/pearson/research-and-development-expense}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 20-F · 0001193125-26-104945 · March 13, 2026

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