RELX lines up another £100M buyback as its 2026 repurchases roll on
RELX does not make headlines the way a chip foundry or an AI lab does, which is rather the point of the business. It sells data, analytics, and the dull certainty of recurring revenue, and it returns the proceeds to shareholders on a metronome. The latest beat of that metronome arrived this week.
The company said it will conduct a new £100m share buyback in July, the next instalment of the roughly £2.25bn it intends to deploy on repurchases across 2026.
The stated purpose is the conventional one: to reduce the company’s capital, with the shares bought back held in treasury. The programme is executed by independent financial institutions under the usual UK and EU market-abuse rules, which keep the company at arm’s length from the trading itself.
The July tranche follows a steady run of earlier buybacks through the year, including a £200m programme that ran in the first...
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