RELX PLC (LSE:REL) is beginning to prove its doubters wrong by showing that artificial intelligence could accelerate growth rather than disrupt its business, although analysts believe further evidence is needed before the shares secure a substantial re-rating.
Following first-half results from the FTSE 100 giant, Deutsche Bank retained its 'buy' recommendation and lifted its target to 3,100p from 3,050p, while UBS reiterated its 'buy' rating and 3,600p price target, implying almost 47% upside from the latest close of 2,451p.
RELX has been one of several data and software publishers hit hard by investor fears that AI could undermine their business models, eroding demand for the subscription products and specialist tools.
But UBS analyst Jo Barnet-Lamb said the results showed "AI-led organic acceleration", with growth at the Scientific, Technical & Medical division increasing to 6% and Legal advancing to 10%.
Adoption of products including LeapSpace and Lexis+ with Protégé continues to rise, supporting what UBS described as a "multi-year growth and upsell opportunity".
Group organic revenue increased 7%, while margins expanded by 70 basis points – well ahead of the 20 basis points expected by analysts.
Deutsche Bank's Steve Liechti said the rapid introduction of products and increasing usage suggested RELX was "only at the beginning of the growth/upside journey".
He argued that "AI worries look overplayed" because rivals using large language models cannot easily access or replicate RELX's proprietary content, data infrastructure and embedded tools.
Barnet-Lamb agreed that structural disruption was unlikely, noting that the first-half figures showed "no evidence of AI-related disruption". However, he expects the wider "AI overhang" to weigh on the shares in the near term.
RELX shares trade at 17.6 times forecast 2026 earnings, well below its five-year average of 24.1 times, the UBS analyst noted, calling it "a re-rating story" requiring continued delivery to close the widening gap between earnings momentum and share-price performance.
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SummaryCompaniesUnderlying growth reached 7% in the six months to end-JuneOperating profit rose 9% as margin up 70 basis pointsLegal unit grew 10%LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - Information and analytics group RELX (REL.L), opens new tab reported accelerating growth in its scientific and legal divisions on Thursday, providing some relief to investors worried about the impact of AI companies like Anthropic on its business.
The British company reported underlying growth of 7% in the six months to end-June, while adjusted operating profit rose 9% as it improved its margin by 70 basis points.
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The performance of its scientific, technical and medical division and its legal unit was notable, with the former up by a record 6% and the latter up by 10%.
RELX reiterated its forecast for another year of "strong underlying growth" in revenue and adjusted operating profit.
Chief Executive Officer Erik Engstrom said an improving growth trajectory was driven by the shift towards higher-growth analytics and decision tools, underpinned by AI.
Shares in RELX and its rivals like Wolters Kluwer (WLSNc.AS), opens new tab and Thomson Reuters have been hit by concerns about the long-term impact of AI companies, such as Anthropic's push into the legal sector, on their business.
RELX's shares rose 2.6% after its results, which analysts at Citi said should be taken positively. But they are still trading 35% lower than they were a year ago.
Chief Financial Officer Nick Luff said RELX was applying generative AI capabilities to its trusted and curated data to help its customers in the legal, scientific, and financial services sectors.
He said hundreds of thousands of professionals were using the tools such as Lexis+ with Protege daily.
"We serve professional markets where trust really matters, where people care about getting the right answer that they can absolutely rely on," he said in an interview on Thursday.
"If you think of doctors, researchers, lawyers and banks, they are making high-value decisions where being roughly right is not good enough."
RELX reported revenue of £4.87 billion ($6.51 billion) and adjusted operating profit of £1.73 billion for the period.
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RELX PLC (LSE:REL) shares rose 1.5% to 2,491p on Thursday after the FTSE 100 group delivered higher first-half revenue and profit as growing demand for its analytics and decision-making tools helped lift margins.
The information and analytics group reported underlying revenue growth of 7%, with adjusted operating profit increasing 9% to £1.7 billion as margins improved to 35.5% from 34.8%.
The company said continued process improvements allowed it to keep cost growth below revenue growth.
Growth was led by continued strength in Risk and Exhibitions, alongside accelerating momentum in the Scientific, Technical & Medical and Legal divisions.
Chief executive Erik Engstrom said growth was supported by strong performances across Risk and Exhibitions, alongside accelerating growth in its scientific, technical, medical and legal operations. Publishing and data-led divisions drove growth, while the exhibitions business also remained strong.
With worries about how AI might affect the business having hit the shares this year, Engstrom added: "The ongoing evolution of artificial intelligence is enabling us to add more value to our customers, to develop and launch higher value-add products at a faster pace, and continue to manage cost growth below revenue growth.
"This evolution has been a key driver of our business for well over a decade, and will remain a key driver of customer value and growth in our business for many years to come."
The board raised the interim dividend by 7% to 20.9p per share, with £1.75 billion of its planned £2.25 billion share buyback completed during the half.
For the full year, RELX continues to expect strong underlying growth in revenue and adjusted operating profit, alongside strong constant-currency growth in adjusted earnings per share.
Relx NYSE: RELX reported stronger first-half results, with management pointing to broad-based growth across its four divisions and continued momentum from AI-enabled analytics and decision tools.
Chief Executive Erik Engstrom said underlying revenue grew 7% in the first half, while underlying adjusted operating profit rose 9%. Adjusted earnings per share increased 11% at constant currency. Engstrom said all four business areas “continued to perform well,” with Risk maintaining strong growth, STM stepping up to strong growth, Legal posting a further acceleration, and Exhibitions continuing to grow despite some event-related disruption.
Chief Financial Officer Nick Luff said the group’s adjusted operating margin improved by 70 basis points to 35.5%. Cash conversion was 98%, and leverage stood at 2.3 times net debt to EBITDA at the end of June. Relx increased its interim dividend by 7% to GBP 0.209 per share.
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Luff said the company spent GBP 103 million on two acquisitions in the first half and completed GBP 1.75 billion of its planned GBP 2.25 billion share buyback program for the year. Total free cash flow was more than GBP 1.1 billion, while net debt stood at GBP 8.7 billion at the end of June.
Risk, STM and Legal Drive Profit Growth Ahead of Revenue Engstrom said the Risk division delivered 8% underlying revenue growth and 10% underlying adjusted operating profit growth. He attributed the performance to “deeply embedded AI-enabled analytics and decision tools,” supported by contributory and proprietary data sets. More than 90% of Risk revenue comes from machine-to-machine interactions, he said.
Within Risk, Business Services, which accounts for more than 40% of divisional revenue, continued to benefit from demand for financial crime compliance and digital fraud and identity solutions. Insurance, also around 40% of divisional revenue, saw growth from broader adoption of contributory databases and market-specific solutions.
STM revenue rose 6% on an underlying basis, while underlying adjusted operating profit increased 8%. Engstrom said growth was supported by a shift toward higher-growth, higher-value analytics and decision tools, as well as new product introductions. He cited continued rollout and usage growth of AI-enabled tools, including LeapSpace, which he described as a “research-grade AI workspace” that has been positively received by customers.
In primary research, Relx said article submissions grew more than 20% in the first half, while the number of articles published increased 7%, in line with the company’s long-term average. In response to an analyst question, Engstrom said submissions may moderate over time to low double-digit growth, but he expects strong volume growth to continue for years. He said Relx is becoming “more selective” in what it publishes as part of its quality positioning.
Legal posted 10% underlying revenue growth and 13% underlying adjusted operating profit growth. Engstrom said double-digit growth in law firms and corporate legal, which represent about 70% of divisional revenue, was driven by adoption of Lexis+ with Protégé, the company’s AI-enabled legal platform with an integrated agentic assistant.
AI Tools Remain Central to Strategy Management repeatedly pointed to AI-enabled products as a key driver of Relx’s improving growth profile. Engstrom said the company’s strategic direction is unchanged, with long-term growth supported by a business mix shift toward analytics and decision tools. He said the evolution of artificial intelligence is enabling Relx to add more value for customers and launch products faster.
On LeapSpace, Engstrom said it should be viewed both as an evolution of ScienceDirect AI and as a product with substantial new functionality. He said customer feedback has been “very, very positive,” with users citing time savings and support for critical thinking. Active users nearly doubled over a 90-day period from March to June, he said, while usage grew faster than the user base.
In Legal, Engstrom said new sales are now “pretty much” 90% from the AI-enabled platform, while roughly three-quarters of renewal value is coming from Lexis+ with Protégé. He said the initial move to the AI-enabled platform is a starting point for future growth rather than the endpoint. Luff cited the integration of Lex Machina into Lexis+ Protégé as an example of additional functionality being added to the platform.
Luff said token costs associated with AI usage remain less than 1% of the company’s overall cost base. He said Relx sees managing token costs effectively for customers as a competitive advantage, supported by how the company configures its technology and pre-processes underlying content.
Exhibitions Growth Moderated by Timing and Travel Disruption Exhibitions delivered 6% underlying revenue growth, while underlying adjusted operating profit increased 2%. Engstrom said the division’s performance reflected strong ongoing growth in the event portfolio, partly offset by travel disruption, event cycling, timing and the rescheduling of some events to the second half.
Luff said events still to run in the Middle East represent about 3% of divisional revenue, or less than 0.5% of group revenue. He said Relx is still planning to run most of those events but acknowledged uncertainty around their performance. He also said travel disruption affected participation from or through the Middle East at events outside the region.
Management Reiterates Full-Year Growth Expectations For the full year, Relx said it expects continued strong underlying revenue growth in Risk, STM and Legal, with underlying adjusted operating profit growth exceeding underlying revenue growth in each of those divisions. For Exhibitions, excluding uncertainty around remaining Middle East events, the company continues to expect strong underlying revenue growth and an improvement in adjusted operating margin over the prior full year.
Luff said Relx continues to target cost growth below revenue growth across its businesses. He said the gap between revenue growth and profit growth has widened in recent years, helped by revenue acceleration and internal use of generative AI to improve efficiency.
Engstrom said Relx’s objectives remain to sustain strong long-term growth in Risk, continue improving growth trajectories in STM and Legal, and sustain strong long-term growth in Exhibitions. He said the combination of business mix changes and process innovation should support strong earnings growth and improving returns.
About Relx (NYSE:RELX)RELX plc is a global provider of information, analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The company supplies content, data and analytical services that support decision-making across scientific, technical and medical research, legal and regulatory practice, and risk and business analytics. RELX's offerings are largely delivered via digital platforms and subscription services designed for institutions, corporations and professionals who require specialized, high-value information and workflow solutions.
RELX operates through distinct business lines that include Elsevier, which provides scientific, technical and medical journals, books and online platforms such as research and discovery tools; Legal and Professional services, which deliver legal, regulatory and compliance content and workflow solutions; Risk & Business Analytics, which offers data, analytics and decision tools for insurance, banking, corporate and government risk assessment; and Exhibitions, which organizes industry trade shows and events.
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New report underscores how climate events, inflation and geographic volatility are reshaping home insurance loss trends
, /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today released the 2026 LexisNexis U.S. Home Trends Report, providing an updated analysis of by-peril claims trends in the U.S. home insurance industry to help carriers make more informed, strategic decisions. Examining loss cost, claims frequency and severity, the report also offers insights into seasonality shifts, catastrophic claims and geographic patterns, including trends by U.S. state.
Key Takeaways from the 2026 LexisNexis U.S. Home Trends Report
Map showing the highest-cost property loss peril by state in 2025. All Peril severity reached an all-time high in 2025, increasing 25.9% from 2024 and 93.2% compared to 2019. While All Peril loss cost decreased 4.4% and frequency decreased 23.8% from 2024 to 2025, loss cost remained the third highest in seven years and 50.0% higher than in 2019. The U.S. experienced 23 climate disasters with $1 billion or more in damages in 2025, totaling $115 billion in damages and marking the third highest year of billion-dollar climate events on record. The Los Angeles wildfires accounted for more than half of that total at $61.2 billion, demonstrating how a single catastrophic event can significantly affect loss trends.1 Fire and Lightning were the defining perils of 2025, with loss cost increasing 76.8% and severity rising 67.3% year over year, driven largely by the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. "U.S. home insurers continue to face increasing pressure and uncertainty as they contend with a 'perfect storm' of rising severity, rising inflation-driven replacement costs and a reshaping of loss patterns in the face of shifting climate-driven catastrophes," said George Hosfield, vice president and general manager, home insurance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions. "The data reinforces the need for insurers to turn to multi-source datasets and analytics to help assess risk more accurately, benchmark performance and adapt to these volatile market conditions."
All Peril Trends
The U.S. home insurance industry continued to experience a long-term upward trend in loss cost across all perils combined. Although All Peril loss cost decreased in 2025, it was still the third most expensive year for loss cost within the last seven years. Severity rose significantly, reaching its highest level in seven years and increasing 93.2% compared to 2019. The rise in severity offset lower claim frequency, which continued its general downward trend since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Download the full 2026 LexisNexis U.S. Home Trends Report to explore how state-level loss cost and seasonality shifts are contributing to market volatility, including why California experienced the highest loss cost in 2025 and how wind and hail activity affected several central U.S. states. Fire and Lightning Perils
Fire and Lightning were the defining perils of 2025, with loss cost increasing 76.8%, frequency increasing 6.0% and severity rising 67.3% year over year from 2024. The dramatic increase was driven largely by the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires. The fires cost an estimated $61.2 billion, making them the highest-cost climate disaster in the U.S. in 2025 and the costliest recorded wildfire in U.S. history.2 Download the full 2026 LexisNexis U.S. Home Trends Report to see how the timing of the Los Angeles fires affected Fire and Lightning loss patterns, including a shift in the peril's typical seasonality. Wind and Hail Perils
Wind loss cost decreased 50.4% and severity decreased 12.0% from 2024 to 2025, while frequency decreased 43.9%. The year-over-year decreases were likely driven by the lower number of catastrophe Wind claims in 2025. Despite lower Wind loss costs overall, wind-related risk remained significant. A central tornado outbreak in mid-March was the second costliest billion-dollar weather event of the year, costing an estimated $11 billion.3 Hail loss cost decreased 38.4% in 2025 from its seven-year high in 2023, and frequency decreased 35.4% from 2023. Severity remained flat compared to 2024. Download the full 2026 LexisNexis U.S. Home Trends Report for additional context on catastrophe claims, billion-dollar hail events and the states most affected by severe convective weather across the central U.S. Non-Weather-Related Perils
Non-Weather-Related Water loss cost decreased 6.4% and frequency decreased 7.8% from 2024 to 2025, while severity rose 2.5%. Severity for the peril increased 63.16% between 2019 and 2025, likely due to inflation and rising material and labor costs associated with remediating water damage. Liability loss cost decreased 4.0% and frequency decreased 14.6% from 2024 to 2025, while severity increased 12.8% year over year. The report notes this may be anecdotal evidence of social inflation, a term that describes how liability claims costs are increasing above general economic inflation, related to increasing litigation costs.4 Download the full 2026 LexisNexis U.S. Home Trends Report for additional findings on Theft and Other Perils, including how declining frequency and rising severity are contributing to shifting loss trends across non-weather-related claims. "Broader loss trends are important, but they are only the starting point," continued Hosfield. "The real opportunity for carriers is using those trends to help better understand what to look for at the individual-property level. If wildfire risk is expanding into new areas, carriers having insight into the fortification and condition of specific homes can help support more informed assessment decisions. If a state is seeing distinct water-loss patterns, understanding the interior risk characteristics of the properties they insure can be key. By connecting national, state and peril-level trends with more granular property intelligence, carriers can make more informed underwriting, pricing and portfolio decisions."
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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions leverages the power of data, advanced analytics platforms and integrated AI solutions to provide insights that help businesses across multiple industries and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit LexisNexis Risk Solutions and RELX.
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1 "2025 in Review: U.S, Billion-Dollar Disasters," Climate Central, https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/2025-in-review
2 "2025 in Review: U.S, Billion-Dollar Disasters," Climate Central, https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/2025-in-review
3 "2025 in Review: U.S, Billion-Dollar Disasters," Climate Central, https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/2025-in-review
4 "Social Inflation," National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), https://content.naic.org/insurance-topics/social-inflation
On July 15, 2026, we present a DCF analysis for RELX PLC (RELX), a company that has experienced significant price declines over the past year. The current price
Integration of LexisNexis Health Intelligence platform with Agenium's no-code SaaS platform can help life insurers adopt EHRs at scale and enable straight-through processing
, /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis® Risk Solutions has announced at the Association of Home Office Underwriters (AHOU) 2026 annual conference the integration of its digital health data platform, LexisNexis® Health Intelligence, with Agenium's modern, no code configurable platform, building on the companies' existing alliance. This latest integration makes it easier for life insurers to access medical records and related insights, such as electronic health records (EHRs) and sets the stage for carriers to receive decision-grade curated medical insights from LexisNexis Risk Solutions, reflecting the company's commitment to advancing intelligence for risk decisions and more efficient digital workflows.
LexisNexis Health Intelligence streamlines how insurers access medical EHR data, enabling more informed decisions, improved efficiency and a better life insurance application experience for consumers. The new integration of Health Intelligence directly into Agenium's configurable platform provides life insurers another avenue to request, manage and receive medical records. Agenium's decision engine can further accelerate the ingestion of LexisNexis Risk Solutions medical data and insights for life insurance companies, enabling faster underwriting decisions.
"Our innovations are designed to provide the life insurance industry the ability to fast-track their electronic health record adoption, utilizing our hybrid network orchestration approach with data sourced from national EHR organizations, Health Information Exchanges and directly from applicants' healthcare portals via a consumer-driven process," said Debra Gangelhoff, vice president and general manager, life insurance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions. "And now, we can offer another way for carriers to integrate and configure their desired workflows in the most efficient way via Agenium's no-code technology while increasing life insurers' usability of the data from our decision-ready medical and behavioral data insights solutions."
"As Carriers embrace end-to-end digital experiences, including real-time risk scoring and underwriting decisions at the point-of-sale, they will need seamless access to medical data and health insights," said Michael Risley, CEO of Agenium.
"Agenium provides a modern integration layer that allows carriers to seamlessly connect their various point-of-sale application platforms and their home office new business and underwriting platforms with a single interface to these innovative Lexis Nexis solutions."
Tom Scales, principal analyst, Celent, says, "We are beyond the need for a simple digital experience. Consumers expect more. Agents will sell in the easiest and most favorable way for their customer and themselves. The investment is not optional anymore."1
The LexisNexis Health Intelligence integration with Agenium is now live and in production for select life insurance carriers, joining LexisNexis® Instant ID® and LexisNexis® Life Data Prefill to offer a powerful solution set from application to underwriting.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions expects to continue building on this collaboration, expanding integrations and capabilities, such as access to consolidated, critical risk data from EHRs as well as advanced models with easy to ingest scores, to support evolving insurer needs and industry demands.
For more information, connect with the life insurance experts from LexisNexis Risk Solutions at AHOU, April 19-20, booth 514.
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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions leverages the power of data, advanced analytics platforms and integrated AI solutions to provide insights that help businesses across multiple industries and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit LexisNexis Risk Solutions and RELX.
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Agenium, a leader in disruptive platform technology, accelerates digital innovation of the complete underwriting and new business process for Life, Health, and Annuity carriers and distributors. The Agenium Platform is a modern, no-code SaaS platform that provides a secure, scalable, and flexible architecture with complete integration to a carrier's legacy environment and all 3rd party data sources. Using the latest rules, predictive AI, and data analytics, our 30+ carriers are rapidly increasing auto decisioning, reducing manual intervention, and improving time to issue and profitability. Speed to market is paramount, and the Agenium Platform enables clients to enter production in weeks or months, positioning them to capitalize on new revenue growth opportunities - a more complete solution at a fraction of the cost of other vendors. See more at: agenium.ai
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1 Top Tech Trends Previsory: Life Insurance, 2026 Edition | Celent
Relx (NYSE: RELX - Get Free Report) and UMeWorld (OTCMKTS:UMEWF - Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and risk. Risk and Volatility Relx has a beta of
Shares in FTSE 100 giant RELX PLC (LSE:REL) fell 2.7% to 2,664p despite the information and analytics group reporting a strong start to 2026 and reaffirming its full-year outlook.
In a statement ahead of its annual meeting, the group pointed to positive momentum across all four divisions and said it continues to invest in artificial intelligence, combining large proprietary data sets with new technologies to launch products and drive usage.
Growth was said to be increasingly driven by a shift towards higher-value products, particularly AI-enabled analytics tools that help customers make decisions and manage risk.
In the data and analytics-focused Risk arm, revenues were supported by demand for financial crime compliance and fraud solutions.
Legal also delivered strong growth, helped by the uptake of its AI-powered research platform, including Lexis+ with Protégé.
Scientific, Technical & Medical saw improving growth as more customers adopted advanced data tools.
Exhibitions benefited from a stronger events portfolio and digital initiatives.
Looking ahead, RELX said it expects underlying revenue growth to remain strong across the group,, with adjusted operating profit growing faster than revenue, reflecting operational leverage.
The company also guided to continued growth in adjusted earnings per share on a constant currency basis, maintaining its trajectory of steady expansion.
The collaboration accelerates digital risk processing by integrating comprehensive data and analytics directly into AI-enabled digital underwriting workflows
, /PRNewswire/ -- Cytora and LexisNexis® Risk Solutions have announced a strategic relationship to embed best-in-class data and advanced analytics from LexisNexis Risk Solutions directly into the Cytora platform to help U.S. commercial insurance companies scale their ability to assess, predict and manage risk.
For U.S. commercial insurers, a centralized and automated approach to underwriting can help deliver unparalleled insight into risk selection. Commercial insurers leveraging Cytora's configurable, LLM-powered platform can tailor essential information from LexisNexis Risk Solutions to their own unique underwriting criteria, helping to enhance speed and accuracy in critical processes such as submission triage and entity resolution.
This approach empowers commercial insurers to automatically enrich submissions with crucial external information, minimizing manual lookups and reducing friction across underwriting workflows. As a result of the collaboration, commercial insurers can substantially improve the speed of their risk decisioning.
Cytora's platform digitizes each incoming risk, augments it with external data sources, evaluates it against configured rules and routes it for automated or manual underwriting. LexisNexis Risk Solutions brings industry-leading data analytics solutions to provide a more thorough picture of risk, as well as proprietary linking technology for individual business entity resolution, to help ensure that risk information is transformed into decision-ready assets across the entire policy lifecycle, from new business to claims and renewals. The incorporation of U.S. commercial business firmographics data via LexisNexis® Commercial Data Prefill represents the first step in integrating additional LexisNexis Risk Solutions commercial insurance products into the Cytora platform.
Juan de Castro, COO at Cytora, said: "This collaboration marks a significant milestone in Cytora's mission to build one of the world's most comprehensive data ecosystems for insurers. LexisNexis Risk Solutions is renowned for providing essential information and advanced data analytics to the insurance industry. By integrating their robust risk data directly into our platform, we are providing our commercial insurance clients with the intelligence needed to accelerate their decision-making and enhance control over risk selection. Together, we can enable underwriters to operate on a more complete, tailored view of the client risk profile, helping to optimize operational efficiency and drive profitability across all lines of business."
David Zona, senior vice president and general manager, U.S. commercial and life insurance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, said: "Working with Cytora represents a strategic leap forward, specifically benefitting U.S. commercial insurers. By combining cutting-edge AI with unparalleled data intelligence, we can transform underwriting from a reactive process into a proactive, insight-driven discipline and at the same time deliver innovation at scale through precision risk assessment, while reducing friction. This empowers our mutual commercial insurer customers to help streamline critical processes, leverage sophisticated data analytics to best understand granular and book-of-business risk and accelerate their decision-making using highly automated workflows to drive sustainable growth."
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Cytora is the pioneer of Generative AI applied to commercial insurance workflows that digitize risk workflows at unparalleled levels of performance, configurability and scalability across the enterprise. With Cytora, brokers, insurers and reinsurers uplift their premiums, improve control over risk selection and transform service.
About LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data, sophisticated analytics platforms and technology solutions to provide insights that help businesses across multiple industries and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
For the insurance industry, LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a leading provider of data and advanced analytics solutions, helping leading insurance companies automate and improve critical business processes, reduce expenses, combat fraud and gain pivotal insights to differentiate and deliver higher levels of customer experience across multiple lines of business. Please visit https://risk.lexisnexis.com/insurance for more information.
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Relx Plc (NYSE: RELX - Get Free Report) has been given an average recommendation of "Moderate Buy" by the seven ratings firms that are covering the company, Marketbeat reports. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have issued a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the
Paris, France / New York, NY, April 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RELX Group, which owns LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a global leader in information, analytics, and AI-powered legal workflow solutions, today announced it has offered to acquire Doctrine, France-based Legal AI platform recognized for its advanced AI tools in legal search, analysis, drafting and practitioner workflows, including Flow Litigate and Flow Counsel.
This proposed acquisition would accelerate the delivery of enhanced, trusted, intuitive and authoritative legal AI workflow solutions in France and across key European jurisdictions, including Germany, Spain and Italy and should assist customers to improve productivity and achieve better outcomes.
Sean Fitzpatrick, Chief Executive Officer, Global Legal, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, said:
“We are excited about the prospect of welcoming Doctrine, so that we can serve customers in France, across Europe, and beyond in even greater ways. Doctrine’s customer-centric innovation approach, powerful platform, and expert talent, complement LexisNexis’s global capabilities in authoritative legal AI workflow solutions, and we look forward to delivering even more value to customers.”
Guillaume Carrère, Chief Executive Officer of Doctrine, said:
“From the start, we have been obsessed with one thing: building cutting-edge AI solutions for legal professionals across Europe. Joining RELX is the natural next chapter for that mission. LexisNexis brings unparalleled depth of content, global reach and a shared conviction that AI, applied responsibly, will transform how legal work gets done. For our customers, this means faster access to a richer set of capabilities; for our team, it means joining a company that recognises and will invest behind the technical and product excellence we have built.”
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, Doctrine combines a comprehensive corpus of case law, legislation and regulatory content for civil law jurisdictions with a suite of AI-powered research, drafting and analytics tools. The platform is used daily by 27,000 legal professionals across France, Italy, Germany and Spain, including law firms ranging from solo practitioners to top-tier Anglo-American firms, multinational corporations and public entities including French ministries, local authorities, and universities.
The proposed acquisition is subject to the completion of applicable information and consultation procedures with the relevant employee representative bodies and customary regulatory consents. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. The two companies will continue to operate separately in the interim.
About Doctrine
Doctrine is a leading legal AI and intelligence platform for civil law jurisdictions in Europe. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, Doctrine combines a comprehensive corpus of case law, legislation and regulatory content with AI-powered research, drafting and analytics tools. The platform is used daily by legal professionals at law firms, corporates and public institutions across France, Italy, Germany and Spain. For more information, visit www.doctrine.fr.
About LexisNexis® Legal & Professional
As part of RELX, LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides AI-powered legal, regulatory, business information, analytics, and workflows that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,900 employees worldwide. It has a long tradition in the French market, grounded in the ownership of JurisClasseur since 1993.
About RELX
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and territories and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 37,000 people, around 40% of whom 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. The total market capitalization is approximately £47.7bn, €55.1bn, $64.4bn.
LexisNexis® Life Insurance Consumer Experience Study Explores Pain Points and Potential Ways to Improve the Life Insurance Application Process
, /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today announced findings from a new consumer research study examining attitudes and perceptions about the life insurance application process, as the industry looks for ways to deliver faster life insurance underwriting and reduce life insurance application dropout rates. The research asked life insurance applicants about the effort involved and the time it takes to complete an application, offering updated insight into where the process creates challenges that can leave applicants less satisfied and, in some cases lead them to abandon the process entirely. The study also explored applicants' attitudes toward sharing their medical information with life insurers – and found that patient portals were the preferred method, compared to medical record exchanges and manual processes. The findings imply that life insurance carriers may be missing out on some new ways to align to consumer behavior and preferences which can shorten timelines and improve the applicant experience.
Key Findings:
79% of applicants cited the amount of required effort is the lead reason for abandoning the life insurance application process. Among life insurance applicants who abandoned the process, 63% pointed to the time required as one of the top reasons for dropping out. Among those who completed or abandoned the life insurance application process and find the process time unacceptable, 91% say it negatively impacts their overall satisfaction. 60% said a reason for abandonment was having to fill in all their medical details, and 56% said it was too difficult to gather all the information about health care providers for the life insurance application. Online patient portals are applicants' preferred method of sharing medical information with a life insurance carrier, outranking medical record exchanges and manual processes. Online patient portal adoption is already widespread – 82% of life insurance applicants report having access to a patient portal for their primary care physician (PCP), and 91% have used one within the past 12 months. Preference for online patient portals is driven largely by ease of use (77%), completeness of information (74%) and speed of record retrieval (65%). Below, LexisNexis Risk Solutions expands on these key findings, outlined in a newly published report highlighting the specific areas of the life insurance application process where applicants experience the greatest challenges.
Life insurance application pain point: Effort
In the report, 79% of applicants cited the amount of required effort as the lead reason for abandoning the life insurance application process. The research highlights the fact that effort, time and medical exams influence how life insurance applicants respond to the process. The greatest sources of effort stem from providing detailed medical information — 60% of applicants describe the hassle in filling out medical conditions and 56% mentioned it is too difficult to collect doctor information.
Life insurance application pain point: Time
Among life insurance applicants who abandoned the application process, 63% pointed to the time required as one of the top reasons for dropping out. Even applicants who complete the process experience meaningful friction: 36% of these respondents indicated time to complete an application is a pain point. Among those who completed the application process and find the process time unacceptable, 91% say it negatively impacts their satisfaction with the application process.
When application timelines extended beyond expectations, nearly one-third (33%) considered switching to a different carrier, and 26% considered abandoning their application altogether. The study identifies a clear threshold for acceptability. Nineteen percent of applicants view application timelines of five weeks or longer as highly unacceptable, compared with 1% for two-week timelines and 5% for timelines of three to four weeks.
Patient Portals Preferred for Medical Information Sharing
Online patient portals are applicants' preferred method for sharing their medical information, outranking medical record exchanges and manual processes. Applicants underscored their preference for online patient portals – 77% indicated preference is driven by ease of providing access to medical records, 74% cited completeness of medical information and 65% prefer online patient portals based on the speed of record retrieval. Adoption of online patient portals is already widespread – 82% of applicants have access to a patient portal through their PCP, and 91% have accessed it multiple times in the past 12 months.
"We conducted this research to get updated insights on how life insurance applicants respond to the process, what impacts satisfaction and what ultimately drives abandonment," said Justin Baker, associate vice president, life insurance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions. "Life insurance applicants indicated that providing medical data continues to be a key driver of time and dissatisfaction and they are ready for a new, easier process for sharing medical information. We confirmed that despite conventional industry understanding of preference, there are many opportunities for the life insurance industry to positively influence the consumer experience, considering that when healthier consumers drop out, business opportunities are lost and costs increase."
"Solving for multiple areas of friction at once allows life insurance carriers to align the application experience with consumer expectations, instead of simply relocating the problem," said Baker. "Life insurers that streamline medical record collection and align with how consumers already access their health data can improve customer satisfaction, reduce application dropout rates and drive stronger business outcomes."
For more information on the LexisNexis® Life Insurance Consumer Experience Study and to download a copy of the research, visit "Reimagining Medical Data Sharing in Life Insurance Underwriting." To learn more about how LexisNexis Risk Solutions is helping life insurers get electronic medical records faster to shorten decision timelines, improve costs and benefit their customers, explore LexisNexis® Health Intelligence and our approach to consumer mediated consent.
About the Research
LexisNexis Risk Solutions commissioned a third-party research firm to conduct an online survey and collect feedback from a representative sample of consumers considered to be "in the life insurance market." The firm completed 2,502 surveys among consumers aged 25 to 75, who had shopped for or applied for a personal life insurance policy within the past five years. Results were analyzed across application outcomes to understand how friction affects consumer behavior and attitudes toward sharing medical information.
About LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions leverages the power of data, advanced analytics platforms and integrated AI solutions to provide insights that help businesses across multiple industries and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit LexisNexis Risk Solutions and RELX.
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RELX (RELX) is now rated a 'BUY' with a new ADR price target of $33.8, reflecting improved valuation and resilient fundamentals. RELX's data and workflow solutions, especially Lexis+, maintain a strong moat against generative AI disruption, supporting stable growth and margin expansion. Organic growth remains robust at 6-7%, with dividend yield above 2.75% and operating leverage from AI-driven efficiencies.
On May 13, 2026, RELX PLC RELX shares fell 3.5% to $31.62, reflecting a broader trend of declines over recent periods. The stock has traded within a 52-week range of $27.57 to $56.33, indicating significant volatility and a substantial drop from its previous highs.
GF Value™ verdict: Current price is $31.62, compared to a GF Value™ of $49.64, indicating a 36.3% undervaluation.GF Score™: 82/100, suggesting a strong investment opportunity based on key financial metrics.Most notable signal: No insider transactions have been recorded in the last 3 months, indicating a stable insider sentiment. Is RELX Overvalued or Undervalued? The current price of RELX PLC at $31.62 is significantly below the GF Value™ of $49.64, suggesting that the stock is undervalued by approximately 36.3%. This margin of safety provides a compelling opportunity for potential investors. The GF Valuation label indicates that the stock is significantly undervalued, which may imply a favorable entry point for those looking to invest in a company with strong fundamentals.
GF Value™ is GuruFocus' proprietary measure of intrinsic value, calculated from historical trading multiples, past business growth, and future performance estimates. The undervaluation of RELX is noteworthy, especially given the company's strong profitability and growth ranks, which could indicate potential for price appreciation once the market corrects its current perception of the stock.
How Does RELX's Valuation Compare to Its History? Metric Current Historical P/E (TTM) 20.9x 32.8x Forward P/E 16.2x - RELX's current P/E ratio of 20.9x is 36% below its 5-year median P/E of 32.8x, indicating that the stock is trading significantly lower than its historical valuation norms. This analysis aligns with the GF Value™ verdict, reinforcing the notion that the stock is undervalued in comparison to its historical performance.
What Does RELX's GF Score™ Tell Us? Metric Rating GF Score™ 82 Financial Strength 5/10 Profitability 9/10 Growth 9/10 Valuation 4/10 Momentum 2/10 The GF Score™ of 82/100 indicates that RELX has strong potential based on its profitability and growth metrics, which both rank at 9/10. However, the financial strength rating of 5/10 and a low momentum rank of 2/10 suggest areas of concern that investors should be aware of. Overall, while RELX demonstrates strong profitability and growth capabilities, its financial stability and stock price momentum are relatively weaker, which may warrant caution.
What Are Insiders Doing with RELX Stock? In the last three months, there have been no insider transactions reported for RELX PLC. This lack of activity suggests that insiders may not view the stock as an attractive buying opportunity at current levels, which could reflect a cautious sentiment regarding the company's near-term prospects. Without insider buying, investors may want to consider broader market signals and company performance before making decisions.
What This Means for Investors Based on the GF Value™ assessment, RELX PLC is currently undervalued. The significant discrepancy between the current price and the estimated GF Value™ suggests that there may be a buying opportunity for investors looking for stocks with solid growth and profitability fundamentals.
For the complete analysis, visit the RELX PLC RELX stock page. You can also explore the GF Value™ page for detailed valuation methodology, or use the GuruFocus Stock Screener to find similar opportunities.
Frequently Asked Questions What is RELX's GF Score™?
RELX's GF Score™ is 82/100, indicating a strong potential for long-term returns based on key financial metrics.
Is RELX overvalued or undervalued?
RELX is currently undervalued according to the GF Value™, with a significant margin of safety based on its current price compared to its intrinsic value.
What is RELX's P/E ratio?
RELX's P/E ratio is 20.9x, which is significantly below its 5-year median P/E of 32.8x, indicating that the stock is trading at a lower valuation compared to its historical levels.
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RELX PLC (RELX - Free Report) has been beaten down lately with too much selling pressure. While the stock has lost 11.4% over the past four weeks, there is light at the end of the tunnel as it is now in oversold territory and Wall Street analysts expect the company to report better earnings than they predicted earlier.
We use Relative Strength Index (RSI), one of the most commonly used technical indicators, for spotting whether a stock is oversold. This is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements.
RSI oscillates between zero and 100. Usually, a stock is considered oversold when its RSI reading falls below 30.
Technically, every stock oscillates between being overbought and oversold irrespective of the quality of their fundamentals. And the beauty of RSI is that it helps you quickly and easily check if a stock's price is reaching a point of reversal.
So, by this measure, if a stock has gotten too far below its fair value just because of unwarranted selling pressure, investors may start looking for entry opportunities in the stock for benefiting from the inevitable rebound.
However, like every investing tool, RSI has its limitations, and should not be used alone for making an investment decision.
Here's Why RELX Could Experience a TurnaroundThe RSI reading of 26.82 for RELX is an indication that the heavy selling could be in the process of exhausting itself, so the stock could bounce back in a quest for reaching the old equilibrium of supply and demand.
The RSI value is not the only factor that indicates a potential turnaround for the stock in the near term. On the fundamental side, there has been strong agreement among the sell-side analysts covering the stock in raising earnings estimates for the current year. Over the last 30 days, the consensus EPS estimate for RELX has increased 2.1%. And an upward trend in earnings estimate revisions usually translates into price appreciation in the near term.
Moreover, RELX currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), which means it is in the top 20% of more than 4,000 stocks that we rank based on trends in earnings estimate revisions and EPS surprises. This is a more conclusive indication of the stock's potential turnaround in the near term. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stocks here >>>> .
On June 03, 2026, we delve into the DCF analysis for RELX PLC (RELX), a company that has experienced significant price fluctuations recently. The stock has seen
Shared auto policy data will help commercial and multi-line insurers better segment and price risk for business owners
, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today announced the launch of LexisNexis® Current Carrier® Commercial, which is designed to provide critical insights that help commercial insurers overcome persistent data gaps and inefficiencies in policy verification. LexisNexis Current Carrier Commercial empowers insurers with actionable insights to help improve underwriting, rating and operational performance.
A contributory solution, LexisNexis Current Carrier Commercial utilizes proprietary data contributed by participating insurers to offer a more comprehensive view of a business' commercial policy history during the underwriting process. The information about current and prior insurance policy history along with drivers and vehicles can be easily aggregated into one view, which helps insurers make more informed decisions with greater efficiency, helping to close the information gaps in their own book of business. By contributing policy data, carriers not only gain access to a more comprehensive view of their prospects, but they also unlock broader value across the contributory data ecosystem, from automated prefill capabilities and renewal monitoring to enhanced claims handling and industry-level insights.
"Estimates show an average 425,000 new businesses launch each monthi, which can create challenges for commercial insurers who are underwriting these risks – from various process inefficiencies to undisclosed information or incomplete details on current insurance policies. According to LexisNexis Risk Solutions research, 68% of insurers believe that up to 30% of their commercial insurance claims may arise from undisclosed drivers," said Brandy Hoffmeister, senior director, insurance product management, at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. "With more than 37 years of experience delivering contributory solutions, we've seen firsthand how shared data can help empower carriers to see beyond their book, helping improve risk assessment, strengthen profitability and spark future innovation."
Key Benefits of Current Carrier Commercial:
Gain more insights: Access comprehensive insurance policy, undisclosed driver and vehicle information to support more informed decision-making, tiering and rating. Streamline coverage verification: Verify coverage details more quickly and efficiently. Reduce costs: Minimize expenses associated with unreliable or missing prior coverage information. Confirm policy information: Ensure better accuracy by confirming insurance policy details upfront, eliminating the need for manual collection. The solution aggregates data across four commercial auto insurance categories:
Policy Details Policyholder Information Vehicle Details Driver Details "Through this more holistic view, insurance carriers can help fine-tune risk segmentation, improve premium growth, reduce expenses and deliver a better customer experience," said Hoffmeister.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions continues to invest in innovation and enhance the value of its solutions like LexisNexis Current Carrier Commercial. Leveraging advanced content extraction techniques including the normalization of contributory data, the solution can easily find and pull specific pieces of information like names, dates or key data points from large amounts of text and/or documents to help insurers streamline coverage verification, risk segmentation and benefit from actionable insights.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Commercial Insurance
LexisNexis Risk Solutions works with the top 25 commercial auto carriers, reinforcing its role as a trusted data steward. LexisNexis Risk Solutions enforces strict data access protocols to ensure that information is available only to participating insurance companies and authorized affiliates.
LexisNexis Current Carrier Commercial joins the portfolio of commercial insurance solutions and commercial auto offerings such as LexisNexis® C.L.U.E.® Commercial and LexisNexis® Attract™ for Commercial. For more information, visit LexisNexis Current Carrier Commercial.
About LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data, sophisticated analytics platforms and technology solutions to provide insights that help businesses across multiple industries and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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+1 470.643.5848
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