Burford Capital (BUR)

• Market cap: $3B
• 1 day: -0.94%
• 5 days: -0.65%
• 1 month: -2.29%
• 3 months: -6.43%
• 6 months: 0.88%
• Year to date: 6.13%
• 1 year: -9.88%
• 5 years: 56.88%
• 10 years: 56.88%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: Asset Management

About: Burford Capital Ltd is a finance firm providing litigation finance, insurance, and risk transfer, law firm lending, corporate intelligence and judgment enforcement, and a wide range of investment activities. It operates in two segments: Principal Finance, which allocates capital to legal finance assets from its balance sheet, primarily as capital provision assets and in limited scope through interests in private funds managed by the company; Asset management and other services, which includes the provision of services to the legal industry, including litigation insurance; and other corporate. The geographical segments include the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and, Australia.

Employees: 160

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

57% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 33 | Existing positions closed: 21

27% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 11 [Q3] → 14 (+3) [Q4]

17% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 63 | Existing positions reduced: 54

15% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $5.72M | Put options by funds: $4.98M

7% more funds holding

Funds holding: 166 [Q3] → 178 (+12) [Q4]

0.56% less ownership

Funds ownership: 52.5% [Q3] → 51.94% (-0.56%) [Q4]

30% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $5.62B [Q3] → $3.92B (-$1.7B) [Q4]