London Stock Exchange Group reported a 56.5% jump in pretax profit to £1.97 billion for 2025, driven by broad revenue gains across all divisions. Total income reached £8.99 billion, with adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation rising 9% to £4.52 billion, lifting the EBITDA margin to 50.3%. The financial markets infrastructure company also announced £3 billion in additional share buybacks.

Earnings per share rose 85.1% to 238.4 pence, while the adjusted measure gained 15.7% to 420.6 pence. Data and Analytics, the group's largest division, grew 5% on an organic, constant currency basis. Annualised subscription value climbed 5.9% in December 2025, and financial institutions signed long-term contracts worth £1.9 billion across workflow products during the year.

LSEG returned £2.1 billion to shareholders through buybacks in 2025 and plans to execute a further £3 billion by February 2027. The full-year dividend rose 15.4% to 150 pence per share. Chief Executive David Schwimmer highlighted the company's data strategy, noting that partnerships with Anthropic, Databricks, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Rogo under the LSEG Everywhere programme are driving adoption as AI use in decision-making scales.