Relx reports strong trading momentum

(Sharecast News) - Relx reported strong trading momentum for the first nine months of 2025 on Thurdsay, with underlying revenue up 7%, driven by continued growth in analytics and decision tools across its business lines. The FTSE 100 group reaffirmed its full-year guidance, citing positive momentum and expectations for another year of strong growth in revenue, adjusted operating profit, and adjusted earnings per share on a constant currency basis.

It said its "improving long-term growth trajectory" reflected a higher-quality business mix and an accelerating shift toward data-driven analytics and AI-powered decision tools.

"We continue to develop and deploy these tools by leveraging deep customer understanding to combine leading content and data sets with powerful artificial intelligence and other technologies," Relx said.

In its risk division, underlying revenue rose 8% year to date, supported by strong demand for AI-enabled analytics across all segments.

Financial crime compliance and digital fraud and identity solutions continued to deliver robust new sales in business services, while insurance benefited from the extension of product offerings and favourable market conditions.

The group said it expected full-year adjusted operating profit growth in the risk division to slightly exceed revenue growth.

It said its scientific, technical and medical unit posted 5% underlying revenue growth, with steady demand across databases, tools, and electronic reference platforms.

Relx said its newly-launched end-to-end AI-powered researcher solution had received "very positive feedback", while primary research volumes continued to expand on strong article submissions.

It said it expected adjusted operating profit growth to marginally outpace revenue growth for the full year.

In legal, revenue grew 9% as the business continued to pivot toward higher-value digital solutions.

Growth was led by law firm and corporate legal clients, where double-digit gains reflected the "continued success of Lexis+ AI, our integrated generative AI platform".

Usage of Protégé, the company's next-generation AI legal assistant, also rose sharply, with its latest expansion, Protégé General AI, "very positively received".

Relx said it anticipated operating profit growth in the division to exceed revenue growth.

The exhibitions arm delivered 8% revenue growth, benefiting from an improved event portfolio and progress on digital initiatives designed to enhance customer value.

Relx said it expected the division's adjusted operating margin to improve over the prior year.

The company said it continued to see "positive momentum across the group" heading into the final quarter, supported by sustained growth in its analytics-led products and services.

At 0927 BST, shares in Relx were down 1.94% at 3,440p.

Reporting by Josh White for Sharecast.com.