Valuation
26% of the score
52median 13
RELX PLC is valued at 16.3x its operating profit before acquisition amortisation (EBITA), including debt: an ordinary multiple.
25x
20x
15x
10x
6x
16.3x
Full points at 6x or less, none from 25xfull points
RELXRELX PLC
$33.08-29% 1Y
$33.08
$27.2052 weeks$46.84
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 72 out of 100, Above average
Today's price. Only valuation depends on it.
Above average. RELX PLC scores higher than 87% of the 1,794 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by return on capital and return on new capital, with nothing holding it far back.
Industrials median 53 · all companies 50
Return on capital
18% of the score
90median 34
Over 6 years the business earned 20% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
20%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
6 years agolatest 26%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
79median 49
For every dollar of operating profit earned over 6 years, yearly profit grew by 8 cents. It did so while using less capital than before.
-5%
12%
8.5%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points
Capital allocation
14% of the score
85median 64
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countDown 1% a year over 5 years: buybacks
755%
-3%
-1%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 0.9% a year, sales 6.2%
10012%
-2%
-5.3%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
53median 62
Today's operating margin of 32% is 1.16x its normal 27%: above its usual level. Normal is half the 10 year median, half the last four years, so a margin that has held is not taken for a peak.
2x
1.5x
1x
0.7x
1.2x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow 32%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
74median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Net debt to EBITDA1.9x a year of EBITDA
654.5x
0.5x
1.9x
0 pointsfull points
Interest coverOperating profit covers interest 10x
831.5x
12x
10.2x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
93median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
Cash against profitOperating cash flow was 1.37x profit over 3 years
1000.7x
1x
1.3x
1.4x
0 pointsfull points
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 5.2% of assets
868%
0%
-8%
-5.2%
0 pointsfull points
How the RyuScore works
Each criterion earns 0 to 100 points on the scale drawn under it, and the RyuScore is their average weighted 26, 18, 16, 14, 12, 8 and 6. Scales bend in the company's favour between their ends, so an ordinary figure is never already near zero. Where a criterion cannot be measured from the filings it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up; a company needs 60% of the weight covered, and always a price, to get a score.
Built from the company's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC and today's share price. Banks, insurers and property trusts are not scored: their debt is their raw material, so these yardsticks mean something else there. Figures as of 2025-12-31, latest annual report FY2025.
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