Currently, there are 218.32M common shares owned by the public and among those 188.61M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -17.10% and -21.40% over the past three months. BUR shares are trading -14.43% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -21.23% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $11.17 and touched a high of $15.73 over the same period. BUR has an average intraday trading volume of 1.12 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -15.54%, -18.00%, and -19.45% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Burford Capital Limited (NYSE: BUR) shares accounts for 60.19% of the company’s 218.32M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.39B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.04. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 11.77, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.93. The company has a PEG of 0.23 and a Quick Ratio of 3.44 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.73. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 6.78% over the week and 3.61% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Burford Capital Limited (BUR) will achieve an EPS of 0.36 for the current quarter, 0.45 for the next quarter and 1.74 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.31 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.31. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.24 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 134.39%, and 18.03% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 50.43% over the next five years, compared to -7.52% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the BUR, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Wedbush stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on June 11, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $18. Deutsche Bank coverage for the Burford Capital Limited (BUR) stock in a research note released on September 06, 2024 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $18. Berenberg was of a view on June 22, 2023 that the stock is Buy, while B. Riley Securities gave the stock Buy rating on May 13, 2022, issuing a price target of $15. Wedbush on their part issued Outperform rating on June 04, 2021.
