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London Stock Exchange Group PLC

LSEG#49 of 134 by buybacks

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Buybacks · TTM to Jun 2026£3.92B≈ $5.18B · reported in GBP
Buyback yield—repurchases ÷ market cap
Dividends · TTM to Jun 2026£757Mdividend yield —
Shareholder yield—buybacks + dividends ÷ market cap
Shares outstanding · 5 yr−10.9%499M shares (2026)
Buybacks ÷ free cash flow104%payout incl. dividends 124%
Buybacks and dividends by fiscal year
Cash returned to shareholders, in GBP. Fiscal years end in December.
Shares outstanding
Share count down 10.9% over roughly five years. Falling is what a real buyback looks like.
Quarterly repurchases
Last 8 reported quarters, in GBP. Orange bars mark quarters where the company issued more shares than it bought.

Fiscal-year detail

From the cash-flow statement as reported, in GBP. Negative repurchases mean net share issuance.

Fiscal yearRepurchasesDividendsFree cash flow
FY2025Dec 2025£2.15B£718M£3.50B
FY2024Dec 2024£1.05B£642M£2.39B
FY2023Dec 2023£1.24B£611M£1.87B
FY2022Dec 2022£383M£567M£1.77B
FY2021Dec 2021£55.0M£426M£1.94B
FY2020Dec 2020£4.00M£257M£750M
FY2019Dec 2019£5.00M£221M£642M

Repurchases in FY2025 were +104.6% versus the prior year.

About London Stock Exchange Group PLC

London Stock Exchange Group plc provides financial markets infrastructure and data products in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Data & Analytics, FTSE Russell, Risk Intelligence, and Markets. It offers data, analytics, and AI tools through an open and interoperable architecture; real-time data and news, text, reference, and legal entity information; and cross-asset models and analytics solutions, such as Yield Book fixed income, Li…

Market cap
GBX 41.8B
P/E (trailing)
32.1×
Fiscal year end
December
ISIN
GB00B0SWJX34
Reporting currency
GBP
Data updated
Oct 10, 2026
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