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

Relx Plc (LON:REL)’s stock price traded down 14.4% during mid-day trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as low as GBX 2,142 and last traded at GBX 2,214. 17,229,896 shares changed hands 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 Roundup

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

REL has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a GBX 5,070 target price on shares of Relx in a research report on Friday, January 16th. Royal Bank Of Canada reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of Relx in a research note on Tuesday, October 21st. UBS Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a GBX 4,570 target price on shares of Relx in a research note on Friday, October 17th. Finally, Citigroup started coverage on shares of Relx in a research report on Monday, January 12th. They issued a “neutral” rating and a GBX 3,178 price target for the company. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of GBX 4,222.50.

Relx Stock Down 2.1%

The business has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 2,983.24 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 3,301.81. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 216.69, a current ratio of 0.48 and a quick ratio of 0.45. The stock has a market cap of £39.43 billion, a PE ratio of 20.97, a P/E/G ratio of 2.69 and a beta of 0.48.

About Relx

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.