{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"176369","rtpr_id":"nBw1msYDha-20261022","ticker":"REL","exchange":"LSE","all_tickers":["REL"],"title":"REG-RELX PLC TRADING UPDATE - October 2026","author":"Business Wire","published_at":"2026-10-22T06:00:00.153Z","article_body":"TRADING UPDATE - October 2026\n\n \n\n7.00am BST\n\n22 October 2026\n\nTRADING UPDATE - October 2026\n\nRELX, the global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools,\nreports strong underlying revenue growth for the first nine months of 2026 and\nreaffirms the full year outlook.\n Highlights \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth year to date +7% \n \n*Our improving long-term growth trajectory continues to be driven by the \n ongoing shift in business mix towards higher growth analytics and decision \n tools that deliver enhanced value to our customers \n \n*We continue to develop these products by leveraging deep customer \n understanding to combine our unique content and comprehensive data sets with \n advanced technologies \n \n \n   \n \n \n \nFull year outlook \n \n \n \n \n *We continue to see positive momentum across the group, and we expect another \n year of strong underlying growth in revenue and adjusted operating profit, as \n well as strong growth in adjusted earnings per share on a constant currency \n basis \n \n \n   \n\n Risk \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth YTD +8%. \n \n*Strong growth continues to be driven across segments by our deeply embedded, \n AI-enabled analytics and decision tools leveraging our unique contributory and \n proprietary datasets. \n \n \n * Business Services continues to be driven by Financial Crime Compliance and \n digital Fraud & Identity solutions, and strong new sales. \n \n*Insurance continues to be driven by the further innovation and adoption of \n contributory databases and market specific solutions, and strong new sales. \n \n \n \n \n *Full year outlook: We expect continued strong underlying revenue growth with \n underlying adjusted operating profit growth exceeding underlying revenue \n growth. \n \n \n   \n \n \n \nScientific, Technical & Medical \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth YTD +6%. \n \n*Strong growth supported by the increasing pace of new product introductions, \n and strong new sales. The improving long term growth trajectory continues to \n be driven by the evolution of the business towards higher growth, higher value \n analytics and decision tools. \n \n \n * Databases, Tools & Electronic Reference continues to be driven by the \n rollout and adoption of our AI-enabled solutions, built on industry-leading \n trusted content. Our recently launched research-grade AI workspace (LeapSpace) \n is receiving very positive customer feedback, and is seeing rapid usage \n growth. \n \n*Primary Research continues to be driven by volume growth, with article \n submissions growing very strongly. \n \n \n \n \n *Full year outlook: We expect continued strong underlying revenue growth with \n underlying adjusted operating profit growth exceeding underlying revenue \n growth. \n \n \n   \n \n \n \nLegal \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth YTD +10%. \n \n*Strong growth continues to be driven by higher growth, higher value legal \n analytics and tools, and strong new sales. \n \n \n * Law Firms & Corporate Legal continues to be driven by the adoption of \n our \n integrated AI-enabled legal research and analytics platform with its \n comprehensive, verified, trusted content and continuously expanding agentic \n capabilities. \n \n*Government & Academic and News & Business continue to be driven by the \n extension of analytics and decision tools. \n \n \n \n \n *Full year outlook: We expect continued strong underlying revenue growth with \n underlying adjusted operating profit growth exceeding underlying revenue \n growth. \n \n \n   \n \n \n \nExhibitions \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth YTD +4%. \n \n*Strong ongoing growth, reflecting the strong growth profile of our event \n portfolio, moderated by the impact of Middle East disruption. We continue to \n make good progress on value-enhancing digital initiatives for our customers. \n \n*Full year outlook: We continue to expect strong underlying revenue growth, \n excluding the Middle East impact, with an improvement in adjusted operating \n margin over the prior full year. \n \n \n   \n \n \n \n  \n 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. \n\n\n-ENDS-\n ENQUIRIES: Paul Sullivan (Investors) Paul Abrahams (Media) \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n+44 (0)20 7166 5751 \n+44 (0)20 7166 5724 \n\n\nDISCLAIMER REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS\n\nThis announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of\nSection 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of\nthe US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements are\nsubject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes\nof RELX PLC (together with its subsidiaries, “RELX”, “we” or\n“our”) to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking\nstatement. We consider any statements that are not historical facts to be\n“forward-looking statements”. The terms “outlook”, “estimate”,\n“forecast”, “project”, “plan”, “intend”, “expect”,\n“should”, “could”, “will”, “believe”, “trends” and similar\nexpressions may indicate a forward-looking statement. Important factors that\ncould cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from estimates or\nforecasts contained in the forward-looking statements include, among others:\nregulatory and other changes regarding the collection or use of personal data;\nchanges in law and legal interpretation affecting our intellectual property\nrights and internet communications; current and future geopolitical, economic\nand market conditions; research integrity issues or changes in the payment\nmodel for our scientific, technical and medical research products; competitive\nfactors in the industries in which we operate and demand for our products and\nservices; our inability to realise the future anticipated benefits of\nacquisitions; compromises of our cybersecurity systems or other unauthorised\naccess to our databases; changes in economic cycles, trading relations,\ncommunicable disease epidemics or pandemics, severe weather events, natural\ndisasters and terrorism; failure of third parties to whom we have outsourced\nbusiness activities; significant failure or interruption of our systems; our\ninability to retain high-quality employees and management or to develop\ncapabilities in emerging technologies at an appropriate pace; changes in tax\nlaws and uncertainty in their application; exchange rate fluctuations; adverse\nmarket conditions or downgrades to the credit ratings of our debt; changes in\nthe market values of defined benefit pension scheme assets and in the market\nrelated assumptions used to value scheme liabilities; breaches of generally\naccepted ethical business standards or applicable laws; and other risks\nreferenced from time to time in the filings of RELX PLC with the US Securities\nand Exchange Commission. You should not place undue reliance on these\nforward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this\nannouncement. Except as may be required by law, we undertake no obligation to\npublicly update or release any revisions to these forward-looking statements\nto reflect events or circumstances after the date of this announcement or to\nreflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.\n\nNotes for Editors\n\nAbout RELX\n\nRELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools\nfor professional and business customers. RELX serves customers in more than\n180 countries and territories and has offices in about 40 countries. It\nemploys more than 37,000 people around 40% of whom are in North America.\n\nThe shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London,\nAmsterdam and New York stock exchanges using the following ticker symbols:\nLondon: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX. The market capitalisation is\napproximately £51bn/€61bn/$68bn.\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021401922/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021401922/en/)\n\nRELX PLC\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nBw1msYDha-20261022","title":"REG-RELX PLC TRADING UPDATE - October 2026","author":"Business Wire","ticker":"REL","created":"2026-10-22T06:00:00.153Z","tickers":["REL"],"exchange":"LSE","article_body":"TRADING UPDATE - October 2026\n\n \n\n7.00am BST\n\n22 October 2026\n\nTRADING UPDATE - October 2026\n\nRELX, the global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools,\nreports strong underlying revenue growth for the first nine months of 2026 and\nreaffirms the full year outlook.\n Highlights \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth year to date +7% \n \n*Our improving long-term growth trajectory continues to be driven by the \n ongoing shift in business mix towards higher growth analytics and decision \n tools that deliver enhanced value to our customers \n \n*We continue to develop these products by leveraging deep customer \n understanding to combine our unique content and comprehensive data sets with \n advanced technologies \n \n \n   \n \n \n \nFull year outlook \n \n \n \n \n *We continue to see positive momentum across the group, and we expect another \n year of strong underlying growth in revenue and adjusted operating profit, as \n well as strong growth in adjusted earnings per share on a constant currency \n basis \n \n \n   \n\n Risk \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth YTD +8%. \n \n*Strong growth continues to be driven across segments by our deeply embedded, \n AI-enabled analytics and decision tools leveraging our unique contributory and \n proprietary datasets. \n \n \n * Business Services continues to be driven by Financial Crime Compliance and \n digital Fraud & Identity solutions, and strong new sales. \n \n*Insurance continues to be driven by the further innovation and adoption of \n contributory databases and market specific solutions, and strong new sales. \n \n \n \n \n *Full year outlook: We expect continued strong underlying revenue growth with \n underlying adjusted operating profit growth exceeding underlying revenue \n growth. \n \n \n   \n \n \n \nScientific, Technical & Medical \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth YTD +6%. \n \n*Strong growth supported by the increasing pace of new product introductions, \n and strong new sales. The improving long term growth trajectory continues to \n be driven by the evolution of the business towards higher growth, higher value \n analytics and decision tools. \n \n \n * Databases, Tools & Electronic Reference continues to be driven by the \n rollout and adoption of our AI-enabled solutions, built on industry-leading \n trusted content. Our recently launched research-grade AI workspace (LeapSpace) \n is receiving very positive customer feedback, and is seeing rapid usage \n growth. \n \n*Primary Research continues to be driven by volume growth, with article \n submissions growing very strongly. \n \n \n \n \n *Full year outlook: We expect continued strong underlying revenue growth with \n underlying adjusted operating profit growth exceeding underlying revenue \n growth. \n \n \n   \n \n \n \nLegal \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth YTD +10%. \n \n*Strong growth continues to be driven by higher growth, higher value legal \n analytics and tools, and strong new sales. \n \n \n * Law Firms & Corporate Legal continues to be driven by the adoption of \n our \n integrated AI-enabled legal research and analytics platform with its \n comprehensive, verified, trusted content and continuously expanding agentic \n capabilities. \n \n*Government & Academic and News & Business continue to be driven by the \n extension of analytics and decision tools. \n \n \n \n \n *Full year outlook: We expect continued strong underlying revenue growth with \n underlying adjusted operating profit growth exceeding underlying revenue \n growth. \n \n \n   \n \n \n \nExhibitions \n \n \n \n \n *Underlying revenue growth YTD +4%. \n \n*Strong ongoing growth, reflecting the strong growth profile of our event \n portfolio, moderated by the impact of Middle East disruption. We continue to \n make good progress on value-enhancing digital initiatives for our customers. \n \n*Full year outlook: We continue to expect strong underlying revenue growth, \n excluding the Middle East impact, with an improvement in adjusted operating \n margin over the prior full year. \n \n \n   \n \n \n \n  \n 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. \n\n\n-ENDS-\n ENQUIRIES: Paul Sullivan (Investors) Paul Abrahams (Media) \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n+44 (0)20 7166 5751 \n+44 (0)20 7166 5724 \n\n\nDISCLAIMER REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS\n\nThis announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of\nSection 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of\nthe US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements are\nsubject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes\nof RELX PLC (together with its subsidiaries, “RELX”, “we” or\n“our”) to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking\nstatement. We consider any statements that are not historical facts to be\n“forward-looking statements”. The terms “outlook”, “estimate”,\n“forecast”, “project”, “plan”, “intend”, “expect”,\n“should”, “could”, “will”, “believe”, “trends” and similar\nexpressions may indicate a forward-looking statement. Important factors that\ncould cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from estimates or\nforecasts contained in the forward-looking statements include, among others:\nregulatory and other changes regarding the collection or use of personal data;\nchanges in law and legal interpretation affecting our intellectual property\nrights and internet communications; current and future geopolitical, economic\nand market conditions; research integrity issues or changes in the payment\nmodel for our scientific, technical and medical research products; competitive\nfactors in the industries in which we operate and demand for our products and\nservices; our inability to realise the future anticipated benefits of\nacquisitions; compromises of our cybersecurity systems or other unauthorised\naccess to our databases; changes in economic cycles, trading relations,\ncommunicable disease epidemics or pandemics, severe weather events, natural\ndisasters and terrorism; failure of third parties to whom we have outsourced\nbusiness activities; significant failure or interruption of our systems; our\ninability to retain high-quality employees and management or to develop\ncapabilities in emerging technologies at an appropriate pace; changes in tax\nlaws and uncertainty in their application; exchange rate fluctuations; adverse\nmarket conditions or downgrades to the credit ratings of our debt; changes in\nthe market values of defined benefit pension scheme assets and in the market\nrelated assumptions used to value scheme liabilities; breaches of generally\naccepted ethical business standards or applicable laws; and other risks\nreferenced from time to time in the filings of RELX PLC with the US Securities\nand Exchange Commission. You should not place undue reliance on these\nforward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this\nannouncement. Except as may be required by law, we undertake no obligation to\npublicly update or release any revisions to these forward-looking statements\nto reflect events or circumstances after the date of this announcement or to\nreflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.\n\nNotes for Editors\n\nAbout RELX\n\nRELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools\nfor professional and business customers. RELX serves customers in more than\n180 countries and territories and has offices in about 40 countries. It\nemploys more than 37,000 people around 40% of whom are in North America.\n\nThe shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London,\nAmsterdam and New York stock exchanges using the following ticker symbols:\nLondon: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX. The market capitalisation is\napproximately £51bn/€61bn/$68bn.\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021401922/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021401922/en/)\n\nRELX PLC\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026"},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-10-22T06:00:00.638453987Z","server_sent_at_ms":1792648800638},"received_at":"2026-10-22T06:00:00.836Z","source_url":"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021401922/en/"},"analysis":{"id":"164354","press_release_id":"176369","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Professional Services","sector":"Industrials"},"redFlags":["Exhibitions segment growth moderated by Middle East disruption"],"eventType":"guidance_update","narrative":"RELX reported +7% underlying revenue growth for the first nine months of 2026 and reaffirmed its full-year outlook.\n\nGrowth was broad-based: Legal led at +10%, Risk at +8%, Scientific, Technical & Medical at +6%, and Exhibitions at +4%, with AI-enabled analytics and decision tools cited as the key driver.\n\nManagement expects full-year underlying adjusted operating profit growth to exceed underlying revenue growth, alongside strong constant-currency adjusted EPS growth. 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