David Schwimmer (Chief Executive Officer) and Michel-Alain Proch (Chief Financial Officer) will present the Group's FY 2025 Preliminary Results on Thursday 26th February via webcast.
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David Schwimmer, CEO said:
“We have achieved another year of very strong financial performance, driving continued top line momentum through significant investment in our product right across the business, bold strategic choices and an enduring focus on partnership with our customers. Our unmatched combination of trusted data and infrastructure is translating into deep customer engagement: in Q4 alone, major financial institutions signed long-term contracts worth £1.9 billion to access our leading data and workflow. With our LSEG Everywhere data strategy, we are positioning ourselves as the partner of choice for licensed, trusted data as the use of AI in decision-making scales – and we are seeing very positive signs of adoption. In Post Trade Solutions, we have aligned ourselves strategically with key customers through their investment in the business.
“Through the transformation of our systems and the use of AI and other technologies, we continue to deliver material operating leverage, with earnings growth significantly exceeding revenue growth. Given our strong cash generation and balance sheet, we also accelerated returns to shareholders in 2025, buying back £2.1 billion of our shares as well as growing the dividend 15%. Today we’re announcing our plan to execute a further £3 billion of share buybacks over the next 12 months.
“We are very excited about the opportunities ahead of us: with our leading, trusted data, ongoing investment in product innovation and the depth and breadth of our customer relationships, we are very well positioned for continued growth.”
Financial highlights
(all growth rates are expressed on an organic, constant currency basis, unless otherwise stated)
- Total income (excl. recoveries) +7.1%; +5.8% on a reported basis
- Broad-based growth: Data & Analytics +5.0%; FTSE Russell +7.3%; Risk Intelligence +11.7%; Markets +8.9%
- ASV1 growth at December 2025 +5.9%; adding a number of new KPIs relating to growth and retention
- Improving profitability: Adjusted EBITDA +11.8%, margin +150bps, constant currency margin +210bps. EBITDA +10.6% on a reported basis
- Strong adjusted earnings growth: Adjusted EPS +15.7% on a reported basis to 420.6p, driven by revenue growth and increased efficiency. Reported EPS +85.1%
- Excellent cash conversion: equity free cash flow £2.4 billion, combining good profit growth and reducing capital intensity
Strategic progress
- LSEG Everywhere: agreed trusted, AI-ready data partnerships with leading platforms including Anthropic, Databricks, Microsoft, Open AI, Rogo and Snowflake, based on MCP2 infrastructure
- Significant innovation across the Group: launch of Open Directory with Microsoft; approval of Private Securities Market and first trade on Digital Markets Infrastructure; development of DigitalAssetClear; and private markets indices partnership between FTSE Russell and StepStone
- Strategic transformation of Post Trade Solutions with investment from 11 leading banks for a 20% stake
- Significant shareholder returns: £2.1 billion returned via buybacks in 2025, £415 million year-to-date and a further £3 billion planned to be completed by Feb 2027; final dividend +15.7% to 103.0p per share3, to be paid on 20 May 2026 to all shareholders on the share register at the record date of 17 April 2026, subject to shareholder approval. The ex-dividend date is 16 April 2026
2026 guidance
- Organic constant currency growth in total income (excl. recoveries) of 6.5-7.5%
- Constant currency EBITDA margin +80-100 bps
- Capex intensity c 9.5%
- Equity free cash flow at least £2.7 billion
- Underlying effective tax rate 24-25%
This release contains revenues, costs and earnings and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the twelve months ended 31 December 2025. FY 2025 is compared against FY 2024 on a statutory reporting basis. Constant currency variances are calculated on the basis of consistent FX rates applied across the current and prior year period (GBP:USD 1.278 GBP:EUR 1.181). Organic growth is calculated on a constant currency basis, adjusting the results to remove disposals from the entirety of the current and prior year periods, and by including acquisitions from the date of acquisition with a comparable adjustment to the prior year. Within the financial information and tables presented, certain columns and rows may not cast due to the use of rounded numbers for disclosure purposes.
1 Annualised Subscription Value (ASV) metric is based on subscription revenues in Data & Analytics, FTSE Russell, Risk Intelligence and data solutions within Markets. Organic, constant currency variance
2Model Context Protocol; open-source standard for connecting AI applications to source data
3 ISIN: GB00B0SWJX34; TIDM: LSEG