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RELX

RELX · Industrials

Last earnings Oct 23, 2026

Key results

Revenuequarter

9%

Adjusted operating profit 1,727m ( 1,652m); underlying growth +9%: Continuous process innovation to manage cost growth below revenue growth led to an improvement in the group adjusted operating margin to 35.5% (34.8%).

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Adjusted operating marginquarter

35.5%

Adjusted operating profit 1,727m ( 1,652m); underlying growth +9%: Continuous process innovation to manage cost growth below revenue growth led to an improvement in the group adjusted operating margin to 35.5% (34.8%).

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

RELX 2026 I Interim Results 5 Operating and financial review Risk Six months ended 30 June 2025 GBPm 2026 GBPm Change in GBP Change at constant currency Underlying growth Revenue 1,748 1,810 +4% +7% +8% Adjusted operating profit 660 697 +6% +9% +10% Adjusted operating margin 37.8% 38.5% Strong fundamentals continuing to drive underlying revenue growth.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Underlying revenuequarter

8%

Underlying revenue growth of +8%.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

RELX 2026 I Interim Results 6 Operating and financial review Scientific, Technical & Medical Six months ended 30 June 2025 GBPm 2026 GBPm Change in GBP Change at constant currency Underlying growth Revenue 1,323 1,370 +4% +6% +6% Adjusted operating profit 491 519 +6% +8% +8% Adjusted operating margin 37.1% 37.9% Improving underlying revenue growth driven by continued development of analytics and tools.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Underlying revenue growth of +6%.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

RELX 2026 I Interim Results 7 Operating and financial review Legal Six months ended 30 June 2025 GBPm 2026 GBPm Change in GBP Change at constant currency Underlying growth Revenue 900 959 +7% +9% +10% Adjusted operating profit 188 208 +11% +12% +13% Adjusted operating margin 20.9% 21.7% Further improvement in underlying revenue growth driven by AI-enabled legal analytics and tools.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Underlying revenuefull-year

10%

Underlying revenue growth of +10%, a further step up in growth from full year 2025.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

RELX 2026 I Interim Results 8 Operating and financial review Exhibitions Six months ended 30 June 2025 GBPm 2026 GBPm Change in GBP Change at constant currency Underlying growth Revenue 581 575 -1% +1% +6% Adjusted operating profit 234 226 -3% -1% +2% Adjusted operating margin 40.3% 39.3% Continued strong underlying revenue growth.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

AI analysis

Latest earnings event · reported Jul 23, 2026

Based on: Earnings release (6-K exhibit) + parent 6-K — transcript not held

Adjusted operating margin ·
35.5%
EX-99 · Jul 23, 2026

Headline figures

MetricLatest earnings eventPrior qtrYear ago
Revenue9%——
Adjusted operating margin35.5%——
Underlying revenue8%——

EX-99 · Jul 23, 2026

Guidance · company-stated

Direction: Reiterated

Company outlook — Reiterated

“1 23 July 2026 RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS TO 30 JUNE 2026 RELX, the global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools, reports results for the first half of 2026 and reaffirms the full year outlook.”

Classified from the release's primary full-year outlook statement.

Next earningsNo verified date on fileNo date is estimated or imported

Margin

Adjusted operating margin35.5%

Capital allocation

Dividend: We are declaring an interim dividend of 20.9p (19.5p), an increase of +7%.

Share buybacks: Of the previously announced 2,250m share buyback, 1,750m was completed in the first half.

General educational research only — not investment advice.Every figure is as stated in the held documents; values marked “computed from stated figures” are arithmetic on those stated figures. Guidance shown is the company’s own stated guidance. No price targets, no recommendations, no consensus estimates.

Event summary

July 2026 RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS TO 30 JUNE 2026 RELX, the global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools, reports results for the first half of 2026 and reaffirms the full year outlook

Based on: Earnings release (6-K exhibit) + parent 6-K — transcript not held

Guidance & outlook

Direction: Reiterated

Company outlook — Reiterated (“reaffirms”)
“1 23 July 2026 RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS TO 30 JUNE 2026 RELX, the global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools, reports results for the first half of 2026 and reaffirms the full year outlook.”

Classified from the release's primary full-year outlook statement.

Capital allocation

Dividend: We are declaring an interim dividend of 20.9p (19.5p), an increase of +7%.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Share buybacks: Of the previously announced 2,250m share buyback, 1,750m was completed in the first half.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

RELX 2026 I Interim Results 11 Operating and financial review Six months ended 30 June 2025 2026 GBPm GBPm Free cash flow Adjusted cash flow 1,652 1,691 Interest paid (net) (144) (166) Cash tax paid* (300) (342) Acquisition and disposal related items (62) (20) Free cash flow before dividends 1,146 1,163 Ordinary dividends (824) (851) Free cash flow post dividends 322 312 * Net of cash tax relief on acquisition and disposal related items and including cash tax impact of disposals.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Six months ended 30 June 2025 2026 GBPm GBPm Reconciliation of net debt Net debt at 1 January (6,563) (7,201) Free cash flow after dividends 322 312 Acquisitions: total consideration (262) (103) Disposals: total consideration 11 62 Share repurchases (1,000) (1,750) Purchase of shares by the Employee Benefit Trust (75) (60) Fair value movements on cross-currency interest rate swaps not designated as hedges (68) 31 Other* (16) (76) Currency translation 208 52 Movement in net debt (880) (1,532) Net debt at 30 June (7,443) (8,733) * Includes share option exercise proceeds , leases and timing effects of acquisitions, disposals and transactions with non-controlling interests.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Share repurchases in the first half were 1,750m (2025: 1,000m).

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Dividends and share repurchases The interim dividend declared by the Board is 20.9p per share, an increase of 7%.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Strategy & priorities

We continue to make good progress on value-enhancing digital initiatives, with increased usage of our growing range of digital tools for both exhibitors and attendees at our face-to-face events.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Such intellectual property laws are subject to national legislative initiatives, cross-border initiatives such as those from the European Commission and increased judicial scrutiny in several jurisdictions in which we operate that could weaken such protections.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Talent The implementation and execution of our strategies and business plans depend on our ability to recruit, motivate, develop, and retain a diverse population of skilled employees and management.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Risks & headwinds

Failure or perceived failure, by us, our customers or suppliers, to comply with requirements for proper collection, use, sharing, storage, transfer and other processing of personal data may damage our reputation, divert time and effort of management and other resources, increase cost of operations, and expose us to risk of loss, fines and penalties, litigation, and increased regulation.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Compromises of our or our third-party service providers systems could adversely affect our financial performance, damage our reputation and expose us to risk of loss, fines and penalties, litigation and increased regulation.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes of RELX PLC (together with its subsidiaries, RELX , we or our ) to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Full year outlook: Aside from uncertainty around remaining events in the Middle East, we continue to expect strong underlying revenue growth with an improvement in adjusted operating margin over the prior full year.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

The application of tax law and practice is subject to some uncertainty and amounts are provided in respect of this.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

While we leverage technological evolution to increase the value of our proprietary data assets and deeply embedded analytics, failure to anticipate and quickly adapt to these changes, enhance the value of our solutions, or effectively integrate evolving technologies, could impact demand for our products and services and consequently adversely affect our revenue or the long-term returns from our investment in higher value-add information-based analytics and decision tools.

SEC original ↗RELX — Earnings release (6-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 23, 2026

Competitors

Competitors & peers

Same GICS sector — classification peers, not declared competitors

Thomson Reuters (TRI) IndustrialsFedEx (FDX) IndustrialsVertiv (VRT) IndustrialsCanadian National Railway (CNI) IndustrialsAerCap Holdings (AER) IndustrialsCanadian Pacific Kansas City (CP) IndustrialsGeneral Dynamics (GD) IndustrialsA. O. Smith (AOS) Industrials
Documents

Filings

324 documents

Earnings releases

79 documents

Presentations

0 documents

No presentations for RELX are held in this edition of the library.

Transcripts

0 documents

No transcripts for RELX are held in this edition of the library.

Mentioned by

8 companies

Other tracked companies whose held documents mention RELX by name or ticker. A mention is counted once per document, from the document text the library holds.

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