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XMUN:RDEB

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XMUN:RDEB
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Price: 29.98 EUR 0.47%
Market Cap: €37.2B
Financial profile · Q2 FY2026

A recurring information platform combining steady growth with rising operating leverage

RELX has delivered sustained revenue growth and expanding operating profitability across the multi-year record, showing operating leverage in a scalable information-and-analytics model. It also produces substantial operating cash with contained capital spending, allowing recurring shareholder distributions while acquisitions and debt remain meaningful uses of capital.

What is developing

The latest comparable period extends the established pattern: revenue rose modestly while operating income grew faster and free cash flow remained positive. Reported net income and EPS accelerated more sharply because lower net interest expense and a positive non-recurring item supplemented operating growth, so the underlying model appears reinforced rather than fundamentally changed.

What matters next

Whether operating cash flow growth catches up with the higher capitalised-development spending base while cash conversion remains stable.

GBP
Metric FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025
6.9B 7.3B 7.5B 7.9B 7.1B 7.2B 8.6B 9.2B 9.4B 9.6B
(2.5B) (2.6B) (2.6B) (2.8B) (2.5B) (2.6B) (3B) (3.2B) (3.3B) (3.2B)
4.4B 4.7B 4.8B 5.1B 4.6B 4.7B 5.5B 5.9B 6.1B 6.4B
(2.7B) (2.8B) (2.9B) (3.1B) (2.9B) (2.8B) (3.2B) (3.3B) (3.3B) (3.4B)
(2.4B) (2.5B) (2.6B) (2.8B) (2.6B) (2.6B) (3B) (3B) (3.1B) (3.1B)
(342m) (313m) (287m) (294m) (311m) (242m) (252m) (279m) (258m) (248m)
1.7B 1.9B 1.9B 2.1B 1.8B 1.9B 2.3B 2.6B 2.8B 3B
(162m) (147m) (170m) (251m) (146m) (104m) (177m) (268m) (254m) (245m)
194m 181m 197m 301m 151m 125m 182m 300m 281m 273m
(36m) 15m (33m) 51m (118m) 42m (10m) (72m) (6m) 9m
(14m) (15m) (9m) (13m) (11m) (9m) (5m) (1m) (1m) 3m
1.5B 1.7B 1.7B 1.8B 1.5B 1.8B 2.1B 2.3B 2.6B 2.8B
(302m) (411m) (300m) (332m) (261m) (326m) (481m) (507m) (613m) (672m)
1.2B 1.3B 1.4B 1.5B 1.2B 1.5B 1.6B 1.8B 1.9B 2.1B
(8m) (8m) (6m) (4m) 16m 0 2m (7m) (10m) (13m)
1.2B 1.6B 1.4B 1.5B 1.2B 1.5B 1.6B 1.8B 1.9B 2.1B
0.55 0.80 0.71 0.77 0.64 0.76 0.85 0.94 1.03 1.12