RELX changes
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- Price
- $40.09 → $40.10(+0.0%)
- Recent events
- Oct 22, 2026: RELX issued its nine-month trading update. Underlying revenue grew 7% in the first nine months of 2026. Risk grew 8%, STM 6%, Legal 10% and Exhibitions 4%. Middle East disruption slowed Exhibitions. RELX kept its outlook for strong underlying growth in revenue and adjusted operating profit in 2026, and strong growth in adjusted EPS at constant currency. Oct 22, 2026: RELX started the last £125m share buyback tranche of 2026, to run until December 2, 2026. It completes the £2,250m buyback target for 2026. On October 21, RELX cancelled 87 million shares that it held in treasury, which left 1,741 million shares in issue. Sep 7, 2026: RELX started a new £125m share buyback tranche, to run until October 21, 2026. With the earlier tranches, the 2026 buybacks reach about £2,125m of the £2,250m target. This total is our sum of RELX's own announcements. Sep 4, 2026: RELX announced that it had completed its acquisition of Doctrine, a French legal AI platform used daily by 27,000 legal professionals across France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Luxembourg. The deal extends Lexis+ AI into continental Europe. RELX did not disclose the price. Jul 23, 2026: RELX reported H1 2026 results: revenue of £4,871m, up 7% on an underlying basis, and adjusted operating profit of £1,727m, up 9%. All four segments grew, led by Legal at +10% revenue and +13% profit. The interim dividend rose 7% to 20.9p, and £1,750m of shares were repurchased in the half. Apr 28, 2026: RELX agreed to acquire Doctrine, a French legal AI platform, to expand LexisNexis's legal AI offering across continental Europe, including France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. Apr 23, 2026: In an AGM trading update, RELX said it had started 2026 well across all four business areas and reaffirmed full-year guidance for strong underlying growth in revenue, profit, and earnings per share. removed: Mar 5, 2026: The analysts downgraded their view of competitors Wolters Kluwer and Thomson Reuters on AI disruption risk. Feb 12, 2026: RELX reported full-year 2025 results: revenue of £9,590m, up 7% on an underlying basis, and adjusted operating profit of £3,342m, up 9%. Adjusted earnings per share grew 10% to 128.5p. The board raised the full-year dividend 7% to 67.5p and set a £2,250m share buyback target for 2026. Feb 3, 2026: RELX shares fell about 14% in a single day after Anthropic launched a Claude legal plug-in aimed at in-house legal teams, part of a broader selloff in legal and data-analytics stocks, including Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer, on fears of AI disruption to subscription research businesses.