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LSEG Targets Blackstone & Thomson Reuters Stake Buyback As Outlook Brightens

Anuj Singh by Anuj Singh
March 3, 2023
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London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG.L), which heightened its income growth outlook, has featured its successful amalgamation with Refinitiv. It has also declared its plans to buy back more of its shares on Thursday, March 2. It claims that this merger will significantly boost its capacity to generate cash. 

LSEG said that it would look forward to the green signal from shareholders to purchase more of its shares collectively from Blackstone (BX.N) and Thomson Reuters (TRI.TO). It had bought Refinitiv, a data analytics group from them, for $27 billion in January 2021.

LSEG has said that the buyback would be equivalent to 750 million pounds and to be completed by April 2024.

David Schimmer, the Chief Executive Officer of LSEG, said that the cartel of Blackstone and Thomson Reuters held more than 30 percent of LSEG shares at the time when the Refinitiv deal was completed. As of January 31, Thomson Reuters alone owned $5.6 billion worth of shares in LSEG.

Blackstone and Thomson Reuters, who own Reuters News, have been silent on all the questions from reporters about the developments.

The deal with Definitive will bring in 7.743 billion pounds ($9.28 billion) and an additional 2.728 billion from operating profits. The data analytics division of the business solely contributed a sum of 4.944 billion pounds ($5.9 billion). The income generated from the data analytics division surpassed its age-old exchange activities like share trading, which dates back more than 300 years.

Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) increased by 16.7 percent to 3.17 pounds. On the other hand, equity-free cash flow held its ground at 1.7 billion pounds before dividends.

Schwimmer has been pushing the plans for LSEG’s diversification since he took command of his office in 2018. He led the flagship 27 billion pounds Definitive deal with Thomson Reuters in the year 2021.

LSEG declared that they had already started the buyback in August 2022, and the worth of 300 million pounds has been completed. The buyback announced now for the 30 percent stake at the time of the deal is expected to be worth around 750 million.

Schimmer said that they are transitioning from integration to transformation. A strategic partnership with Microsoft and their well-planned investment in top-of-the-market infrastructure will enable them to build a strong foundation for longer-term sustainable growth. 

LSEG’s Target

LSEG’s total income was 7.743 billion pounds in the year 2022, which just slightly surpassed 7.733 billion pounds, estimated by analysts. This was higher than the 6.535 billion pounds made in 2021.

By 2025, it increased its forecast for revenue collaboration from 225 million to 350–400 million pounds.

Schimmer said the acquisition of Definitive and a well-thought-out partnership with the tech giant Microsoft of $2 billion in December will lead LSEG’s wagon of “shifting from integration to transformation”.

He told reporters that, as of now, they are generating massive amounts of cash.

There are talks that England is trying to convince Arm, a UK software technology company owned by Softbank, to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. The UK has reformed many of its capital market rules and regulations to contract the gap for listings with New York.

Schimmer refused to give any remarks as to whether he assumed that Arm would be having a listing in London.

Being the most global capital market in the world, Schimmer said that they are optimistic about the possibilities for this market. There are immense opportunities to reform for the betterment of the market.

He is also positive that after the current EU market access expires in June 2025, LSEG’s clearance arm back in London won’t be chopped off from the European Union.

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