Relx (LON:REL) Trading Down 14.4% – Here’s Why

Relx Plc (LON:REL) shares traded down 14.4% on Wednesday . The stock traded as low as GBX 2,142 and last traded at GBX 2,214. 17,229,896 shares were traded during trading, a decline of 3% from the average session volume of 17,756,586 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 2,585.

Relx News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting Relx this week:

• Positive Sentiment: RELX has continued its 2026 buyback, purchasing further treasury shares this week — a sign management is supporting the stock and reducing float. RELX Continues 2026 Buyback with Further Treasury Share Purchase RELX Adds to Buyback Programme With New Treasury Share Purchase
• Neutral Sentiment: RELX updated its total voting rights (issued share capital ~1.828bn) — a routine disclosure tied to share purchases; informative but not a direct catalyst. RELX Updates Total Voting Rights to 1.82 Billion Shares
• Negative Sentiment: Market reports say Anthropic’s new AI offerings have accelerated a selloff in legal-software and data analytics names — investors fear faster commoditization of specialized datasets and tools, pressuring valuations for companies like RELX. Anthropic’s new AI tools deepen selloff in data analytics and software stocks, investors say
• Negative Sentiment: Coverage explains how Anthropic’s latest models are specifically hitting legal-software vendors, prompting sharp re-rating across the subsector and contributing to RELX weakness. Why Anthropic’s latest AI tool is hammering legal-software stocks
• Negative Sentiment: Broader market commentary: FTSE and other UK data/software names pulled back amid AI worries and risk-off rotation, amplifying pressure on RELX as a data/charts/index constituent. FTSE 100 falls back from record high amid AI worries; gold heads for best day since 2008 – as it happened
• Negative Sentiment: Opinion pieces and market primers highlight that UK “data champions” are under scrutiny as generative AI advances, creating headline risk and short-term selling pressure on incumbents such as RELX. UK data champions under siege as the AI revolution gathers pace: Alex Brummer

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities analysts have commented on the company. Royal Bank Of Canada restated an “overweight” rating on shares of Relx in a research note on Tuesday, October 21st. JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated an “overweight” rating and set a GBX 5,070 price objective on shares of Relx in a research report on Friday, January 16th. UBS Group restated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 4,570 price objective on shares of Relx in a research note on Friday, October 17th. Finally, Citigroup initiated coverage on Relx in a research note on Monday, January 12th. They issued a “neutral” rating and a GBX 3,178 target price on the stock. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Relx has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of GBX 4,222.50.

Relx Price Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 216.69, a quick ratio of 0.45 and a current ratio of 0.48. The firm has a market capitalization of £40.08 billion, a P/E ratio of 21.32, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.69 and a beta of 0.48. The business has a fifty day moving average of GBX 2,983.24 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 3,301.81.

Relx Company Profile

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs over 33,000 people, of whom almost half 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.