Stock · REL.L · Industrials
United Kingdom · Large Cap · Revenue 12 mo. £9.7B
Price as of 11/06/2026
RELX PLC, together with its subsidiaries, provides information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in North America, Europe, and internationally.
RELX PLC, together with its subsidiaries, provides information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in North America, Europe, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Risk; Scientific, Technical & Medical; Legal; and Exhibitions. The Risk segment offers information-based analytics and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with technology and algorithms to assist clients in evaluating and predicting risk, as well as a portfolio of commercial healthcare products. Its Scientific, Technical & Medical segment provides scientific and medical information and data sets for science and healthcare. The Legal segment provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics. Its Exhibitions segment combines digital tools and data to help customers connect in-person and online, discover new markets, source products, generate leads, and transact. The company was formerly known as Reed Elsevier PLC and changed its name to RELX PLC in July 2015. RELX PLC was incorporated in 1903 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
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Summary
56.1 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €3.4B (2025), it supports €38B. The remaining €24.6B of the market value assume it grows 7.0% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
7.0%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 18.5×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 19.8× to 25.8×, median 21.9×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q3 2026
4 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., EBIT margin, FCF margin
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 87.28% | 13.10% | Rank 99 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 1,876.10% | 19.33% | Rank 100 |
| EBIT margin | 31.11% | 11.28% | Rank 94 |
| FCF margin | 29.77% | 8.50% | Rank 97 |
| Gross margin | 63.70% | 28.98% | Rank 96 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 1.65% | 5.15% | Rank 31 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 9.77% | 8.01% | Rank 54 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 12.14% | 12.89% | Rank 47 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 0.22% | 4.02% | Rank 1 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.71% | 4.42% | Rank 39 |
| FCF yield | 5.46% | 3.98% | Rank 70 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 6.20 | 2.08 | Rank 12 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 19.93 | 19.47 | Rank 49 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −18.65% | −0.01% | Rank 18 |
| Share price, 6 months | 23.09% | −1.43% | Rank 91 |
| Share price, 3 months | 19.94% | 0.53% | Rank 95 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −6.54% | −16.36% | Rank 82 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 0.12% | 1.39% | Rank 60 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −1.77% | −0.44% | Rank 70 |
| Dividend streak in years | 16 | 5 | Rank 88 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 2.06% | 0.27% | Rank 68 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 16.03% | 39.65% | Rank 8 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 1.91 | 1.38 | Rank 37 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 3.10 | 0.61 | Rank 5 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 36.27% | 32.95% | Rank 36 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, £B | EBIT margin | FCF, £B | Shares | Net debt, £B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6.9 | 24.8% | 1.7 | 2.08B | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 7.4 | 25.9% | 1.9 | 2.04B | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 7.5 | 26.2% | 2.0 | 1.99B | 6.3 |
| 2019 | 7.9 | 26.7% | 1.7 | 1.96B | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 7.1 | 21.5% | 1.2 | 1.94B | 7.0 |
| 2021 | 7.2 | 26.0% | 1.7 | 1.94B | 6.1 |
| 2022 | 8.6 | 27.2% | 2.0 | 1.93B | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 9.2 | 29.3% | 2.4 | 1.90B | 6.3 |
| 2024 | 9.4 | 30.3% | 2.6 | 1.88B | 6.4 |
| 2025 | 9.6 | 31.1% | 2.9 | 1.84B | 7.2 |
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Selected fundamental metrics for Relx PLC.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 26.9 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 23.5 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 87.3% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 16.0% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 3.10 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 2.3% | 2.0% |
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|---|---|---|
| REL.L | Relx PLCthis page | |
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| CPRT | Copart Inc | locked |
| GPN | Global Payments Inc | locked |
| WKL.AS | Wolters Kluwer N.V. | locked |
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