Relx PLC RELX
What this company does
Written from the business description in RELX PLC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +6.2% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +11.0%, earnings per share at +12.1%.
The share count fell from 1.93B to 1.82B over the period.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Each GBP of equity produced 71 cents of profit this year.
The share count changed between 2017 and 2020, but the exact year can't be marked here — the underlying count wasn't on file for every year in that stretch.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue £B | 9.6 | 9.4 | 9.2 | 8.6 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 6.0 |
| Operating income £B | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| EBITDA £B | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
| Income tax £B | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Net income £B | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| Free cash flow £B | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| EPS, diluted £ | 1.12 | 1.03 | 0.94 | 0.85 | 0.76 | 0.63 | 0.77 | 0.71 | 0.81 | 0.55 | · |
| Dividend / sh £ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| ROE % | 70.6 | 55.7 | 49.2 | 46.6 | 55.2 | 57.4 | 67.0 | 61.5 | 72.2 | 50.7 | · |
| Shares out B | 1.82 | 1.86 | 1.88 | 1.91 | 1.93 | 1.93 | · | · | 0.00 | · | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
This company against its peers
Reconciled in 11 of 19 fiscal years. 43 checks could not be computed.