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Relx plc (RELX): Financial Statements and Key Figures

Relx plc (ticker RELX) is classified by the SEC under industry code 7389, Services-Business Services, NEC, and is listed on NYSE. It files its annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Form 20-F and reports in GBP. Its fiscal 2025 ended on 31 December 2025; the annual report for that year was filed on 19 February 2026. For that year it reported revenue of GBP 9,590 million, net income of GBP 2,065 million and total assets of GBP 14,757 million at the year end. Fiscal years 2016 to 2025 are shown below.

The figures are as the company filed them, standardised by reporting tag; the filing is the authority. For education and analysis, not investment advice.

Key Figures

Money in GBP millions; earnings per share in GBP. Free cash flow is the cash from operating activities less capital expenditures. Total debt is short-term plus long-term debt, or the total the company itself tags when that is larger. A margin is the profit line divided by revenue; return on equity is net income divided by the average of shareholders' equity at the start and the end of the year. A blank cell means the company does not report the line under a standard tag; it does not mean zero.

Table 1: Key figures of Relx plc by fiscal year
Fiscal year2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
year ended on31 Dec31 Dec31 Dec31 Dec31 Dec31 Dec31 Dec31 Dec31 Dec31 Dec
Revenue (GBP millions)6,8897,3417,4927,8747,1107,2448,5539,1619,4349,590
Net income (GBP millions)1,1501,6481,4221,5051,2241,4711,6341,7811,9342,065
Earnings per share, diluted (GBP)0.550.810.710.770.630.760.850.941.031.12
Cash from operating activities (GBP millions)1,7411,9141,9852,0891,5962,0162,4012,4572,6082,836
Free cash flow (GBP millions)1,6901,8631,9292,0421,5531,9882,3652,4272,5882,815
Total assets (GBP millions)13,32312,28313,99913,78914,14513,85815,82914,91715,13314,757
Total debt (GBP millions)5,3645,3507,0517,1937,4306,1676,7306,4976,5447,267
Shareholders' equity (GBP millions)2,3202,3532,3292,1662,0993,2323,7763,4603,4812,366
Gross margin63.9 %64.2 %64.7 %65.0 %65.0 %64.6 %64.4 %64.9 %65.0 %66.3 %
Operating margin24.8 %26.0 %26.2 %26.7 %21.4 %26.0 %27.2 %29.3 %30.3 %31.6 %
Net margin16.7 %22.4 %19.0 %19.1 %17.2 %20.3 %19.1 %19.4 %20.5 %21.5 %
Return on equity49.6 %70.5 %60.7 %67.0 %57.4 %55.2 %46.6 %49.2 %55.7 %70.6 %

Last twelve months: not shown. No quarterly reports in XBRL (the company files annual, half-year or current reports only): no last-twelve-month figures, none estimated.

Charts

Figure 1: Revenue and net income by fiscal year (GBP millions)

Figure 2: Cash from operating activities and free cash flow by fiscal year (GBP millions)

Compound Growth

The compound annual growth rate is the single yearly rate that, applied every year, takes the first value to the last one: the last value divided by the first, raised to the power of one over the number of years, less one. It uses only the two end values, so an unusual first or last year moves it a great deal.

  • Revenue: 6,889 in fiscal 2016 to 9,590 in fiscal 2025 (GBP millions), 9 years: 3.7 % a year.
  • Diluted earnings per share: 0.55 in fiscal 2016 to 1.12 in fiscal 2025 (GBP per share), 9 years: 8.2 % a year.

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Same Industry

The first 12 in alphabetical order of the 17 other companies in the data with the industry code 7389 (Services-Business Services, NEC), in alphabetical order; the index lists every company.

Source

The annual report first filed for each fiscal year, with a link to its index page on EDGAR, the SEC's filing system. A later annual report repeats earlier years for comparison and sometimes restates them; where a value was taken from a later report, the last column gives the date of the latest one used.

Table 2: The filing behind each fiscal year
Fiscal yearYear endedFormFiledOn EDGARLater report used, filed
202531 Dec 2025Form 20-F19 Feb 2026filing index
202431 Dec 2024Form 20-F20 Feb 2025filing index19 Feb 2026
202331 Dec 2023Form 20-F22 Feb 2024filing index19 Feb 2026
202231 Dec 2022Form 20-F23 Feb 2023filing index19 Feb 2026
202131 Dec 2021Form 20-F17 Feb 2022filing index19 Feb 2026
202031 Dec 2020Form 20-F18 Feb 2021filing index20 Feb 2025
201931 Dec 2019Form 20-F20 Feb 2020filing index22 Feb 2024
201831 Dec 2018Form 20-F28 Feb 2019filing index23 Feb 2023
201731 Dec 2017Form 20-F22 Feb 2018filing index17 Feb 2022
201631 Dec 2016Form 20-F22 Feb 2018filing index18 Feb 2021
  • The figures are as filed with the SEC and standardised by reporting tag. The filing is the authority: check it before relying on a number.
  • A blank cell means the company does not tag that line, or the tagged figure is withheld as incomplete. It does not mean zero.
  • Currency: every figure is in the currency the company reported that year (GBP here). Nothing is converted.
  • Per-share figures are adjusted for stock splits detected from the company's own restated figures, except where a year is flagged; the as-filed values are in the filings.
  • For a bank, broker, insurer or other financial company (SIC codes 6000 to 6799) net debt, EBITDA, the current ratio and debt to equity are not meaningful and the tools show them as n/m.
  • A fiscal year is named after the calendar year in which it ends. The data is updated from time to time, not daily; this company's figures were loaded on 13 November 2026.

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