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BUR
Burford Capital Ltd
NYSE· Financial Services· Asset Management· CUSIP G17977110
$3.37+10.49%Price as of Oct 23, 00:52 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Burford Capital Ltd (BUR) is listed on NYSE and classified in Asset Management, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey and has 172 employees. The company is worth $740.04M. Revenue was $413.36M in fiscal 2025, down 24.3% from the year before. Net income was $62.57M. The share price is 70.3% below its 52-week high of $11.35. It pays a dividend yielding 1.87%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $25.7M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $740.04M
- P/E
- —
- Forward P/E
- 5.4x
- P/B
- 0.9x
- Dividend yield
- 1.87%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- -$8.51
- ROE
- -72.12%
- Profit margin
- 0.00%
- Revenue growth
- -37.20%
- Beta
- 1.05
- 52-week high
- $11.35
- 52-week low
- $2.86
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Cliff AsnessAddedAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$25.7M6.27M shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Israel EnglanderHeldMillennium Management · Q2 2026$5.73M1.4M shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Renaissance TechnologiesHeldRenaissance Technologies · Q2 2026$4.76M1.16M shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Ken GriffinReducedCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$4M975.93K shares · 0.0% of portfolio- Steve CohenNew positionPoint72 Asset Management · Q2 2026$3.58M873.32K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Baillie GiffordHeldBaillie Gifford & Co · Q2 2026$1.62M395.65K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▼ -71.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $302.84▼ -69.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 6 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $8.92 | $12.75 | $15.60 | $8.15 | $10.56 | $9.67 | |
| P/E | 19.3x | 31.9x | 19.3x | 5.7x | 58.2x | — | 14.9x |
| P/S | 5.4x | 4.7x | 5.1x | 3.1x | 5.6x | 10.6x | 5.9x |
| P/B | 1.2x | 0.8x | 1.2x | 1.5x | 1.0x | 1.4x | 1.2x |
| EPS | $0.28 | $0.66 | $2.74 | $0.14 | -$0.13 | $0.65 | |
| Dividend yield | 0.99% | 0.71% | 0.99% | 0.81% | 1.55% | 1.78% | — |
| Payout | 20.80% | 22.50% | 19.09% | 4.60% | 90.00% | — | — |
| Profit margin | 20.98% | 15.14% | 26.82% | 56.17% | 9.56% | -13.23% | 39.90% |
| ROE | 4.31% | 2.56% | 6.05% | 26.65% | 1.75% | -1.70% | 8.13% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
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Earnings
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Earnings
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Earnings
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Cash flow
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Operating
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Dividends
$0.68
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 9.3% required return, from the stock’s beta.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Dividends $0.68÷ 1 =$0.68
$0.68
1 methods answered, across 1 families.
$0.51
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$3.37
-79.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FINVFinVolution Group | $3.13 | 3.0x | 0.3x | 9.90% | 11.58% | $738.97M |
| WASHWashington Trust Bancorp Inc | $39.23 | 11.8x | 1.4x | 5.71% | 12.02% | $748.29M |
| TIGRUP Fintech Holding Ltd | $4.06 | 7.7x | 0.8x | 0.00% | 13.57% | $730.17M |
| PRAAPra Group Inc | $19.96 | — | 0.7x | 0.00% | -20.25% | $751.45M |
| LULufax Holding Ltd | $0.84 | — | 0.1x | 0.00% | -2.29% | $728.02M |
| RCBCRiver City Bank - Common stock | $53.86 | 11.5x | 1.3x | 0.35% | — | $753.76M |
About the company
- 172
- Saint Peter Port, Guernsey