RELXRELX PLC
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and typical volatility.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -50% · now 23% below its 52-week high.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can RELX take a bad year?
RELX PLC carries $7.14B of net debt at 1.89× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.89×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.76× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 10.2×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 29%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $7.27B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $131M
- Net debt
- $7.14B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.78B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.03B
- Debt / equity
- 3.07×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.92×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 29%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −50%
- Below its 52-week high
- 23%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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