TRADING UPDATE - October 2026
Summary by AI BETAClose X
7.00am BST
22 October 2026
TRADING UPDATE - October 2026
RELX, the global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools, reports strong underlying revenue growth for the first nine months of 2026 and reaffirms the full year outlook.
Highlights
Full year outlook
|
Risk
Scientific, Technical & Medical
Legal
Exhibitions
|
| Underlying growth rates are calculated at constant currency, and exclude the impact of acquisitions, disposals, assets held for sale, print and print-related, exhibition cycling, and timing effects. |
-ENDS-
ENQUIRIES:
|
Paul Sullivan (Investors) +44 (0)20 7166 5751 |
Paul Abrahams (Media) +44 (0)20 7166 5724 |
DISCLAIMER REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 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. We consider any statements that are not historical facts to be “forward-looking statements”. The terms “outlook”, “estimate”, “forecast”, “project”, “plan”, “intend”, “expect”, “should”, “could”, “will”, “believe”, “trends” and similar expressions may indicate a forward-looking statement. Important factors that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from estimates or forecasts contained in the forward-looking statements include, among others: regulatory and other changes regarding the collection or use of personal data; changes in law and legal interpretation affecting our intellectual property rights and internet communications; current and future geopolitical, economic and market conditions; research integrity issues or changes in the payment model for our scientific, technical and medical research products; competitive factors in the industries in which we operate and demand for our products and services; our inability to realise the future anticipated benefits of acquisitions; compromises of our cybersecurity systems or other unauthorised access to our databases; changes in economic cycles, trading relations, communicable disease epidemics or pandemics, severe weather events, natural disasters and terrorism; failure of third parties to whom we have outsourced business activities; significant failure or interruption of our systems; our inability to retain high-quality employees and management or to develop capabilities in emerging technologies at an appropriate pace; changes in tax laws and uncertainty in their application; exchange rate fluctuations; adverse market conditions or downgrades to the credit ratings of our debt; changes in the market values of defined benefit pension scheme assets and in the market related assumptions used to value scheme liabilities; breaches of generally accepted ethical business standards or applicable laws; and other risks referenced from time to time in the filings of RELX PLC with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this announcement. Except as may be required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this announcement or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Notes for Editors
About RELX
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and territories and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 37,000 people around 40% of whom are in North America.
The shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York stock exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX. The market capitalisation is approximately £51bn/€61bn/$68bn.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021401922/en/
Latest directors dealings
- 9 minutes ago Power Probe PLC
- 10 minutes ago Origin Enterprises (CDI)
- 26 minutes ago NATWEST GROUP
- 30 minutes ago SThree
- 56 minutes ago GSK