LON:BURBurford Capital Share Price, Forecast & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Burford Capital Limited Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add GBX 493 -14.80 (-2.91 %) (As of 07/3/2020 04:00 PM ET) Add Share Today's Range 480.38Now: GBX 493▼ 511.5850-Day Range 425MA: GBX 486.71▼ 57052-Week Range 250.43Now: GBX 493▼ 1,795Volume480,054 shsAverage Volume590,227 shsMarket Capitalization£1.08 billionP/E Ratio5.10Dividend Yield1.81%BetaN/A ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartDividendInsider TradesHeadlines Burford Capital Limited is a global finance company focused on law. The Company provides investment capital, investment management, financing and risk solutions with a focus on the litigation and arbitration sector. The Company's segments include provision of litigation investment, provision of litigation insurance, exploration of new initiatives related to application of capital to the litigation and arbitration sector until such time as those initiatives mature into full-fledged independent segments and investment management activities. The Company's provision of litigation investment segment reflects litigation and arbitration-related investment activities. The Company's provision of litigation insurance segment reflects the United Kingdom and Channel Islands litigation insurance activities. The Company's businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a range of legal finance and advisory activities.Read More Beat the Market (BTM) Rank™ 3.3 Analyst's Opinion Consensus RatingBurford Capital has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.57, and is based on 5 buy ratings, 1 hold rating, and 1 sell rating.Price Target Upside/DownsideAccording to analysts' consensus price target of GBX 1,199.67, Burford Capital has a potential upside of 143.3% from its current price of GBX 493.Amount of Analyst CoverageBurford Capital has only been the subject of 4 research reports in the past 90 days. Previous Next 3.0 Community Rank Outperform VotesBurford Capital has received 373 “outperform” votes. (Add your “outperform” vote.)Underperform VotesBurford Capital has received 255 “underperform” votes. (Add your “underperform” vote.)Community SentimentBurford Capital has received 59.39% “outperform” votes from our community.MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Burford Capital and other stocks. Vote “Outperform” if you believe BUR will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote “Underperform” if you believe BUR will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. Previous Next 1.7 Dividend Strength Dividend YieldBurford Capital pays a meaningful dividend of 1.81%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.Dividend GrowthBurford Capital does not have a long track record of dividend growth.Dividend CoverageThe dividend payout ratio of Burford Capital is 0.06%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Previous Next 3.0 Company Ownership Insider Buying vs. Insider SellingIn the past three months, Burford Capital insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought £241,500 in company stock and sold GBX 0 in company stock. Previous Next 1.4 Earnings and Valuation Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the MarketThe P/E ratio of Burford Capital is 5.10, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 16.40.Price to Book Value per Share RatioBurford Capital has a P/B Ratio of 0.70. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities. Previous Next Analyst Opinion: 3.3Community Rank: 3.0Dividend Strength: 1.7Insider Behavior: 3.0Valuation: 1.4 5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -Overall Beat the Market Rank™2.48 out of 5 stars Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange LON Industry N/A Sub-IndustryN/A SectorN/A Current SymbolLON:BUR Previous Symbol CUSIPN/A CIKN/A Webwww.burfordcapital.com PhoneN/ADebt Debt-to-Equity Ratio44.05 Current Ratio2.29 Quick Ratio2.28Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio5.10 Forward P/E RatioN/A P/E GrowthN/A Sales & Book Value Annual Sales£364.05 million Price / Sales2.96 Cash FlowGBX 105.23 per share Price / Cash Flow4.68 Book ValueGBX 701.10 per share Price / Book0.70Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)N/A Net IncomeN/A Net MarginsN/A Return on EquityN/A Return on AssetsN/AMiscellaneous EmployeesN/A Outstanding Shares218,650,000Market Cap£1.08 billion Next Earnings DateN/A OptionableNot Optionable LSE:BUR Rates by TradingView Receive BUR News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for BUR and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Burford Capital (LON:BUR) Frequently Asked Questions How has Burford Capital's stock been impacted by COVID-19 (Coronavirus)? Burford Capital's stock was trading at GBX 401.20 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BUR shares have increased by 22.9% and is now trading at GBX 493. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus. Do Wall Street analysts recommend investors buy shares of Burford Capital? 7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Burford Capital in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Burford Capital. How often does Burford Capital pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Burford Capital? Burford Capital announced a dividend on Thursday, July 25th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 14th will be paid a dividend of GBX 0.04 per share on Thursday, December 5th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.2%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 14th. The official announcement can be viewed at this link. View Burford Capital's dividend history. What price target have analysts set for BUR? 7 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Burford Capital's stock. Their forecasts range from GBX 570 to GBX 2,600. On average, they anticipate Burford Capital's stock price to reach GBX 1,199.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 143.3% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Burford Capital. Has Burford Capital been receiving favorable news coverage? News articles about BUR stock have trended negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Burford Capital earned a daily sentiment score of -2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news about Burford Capital. What other stocks do shareholders of Burford Capital own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Burford Capital investors own include Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), CVS Group (CVSG), Vermilion Energy (VET), Afren (AFR), Code Rebel (CDRBQ), Diageo (DEO), DP Eurasia (DPEU), IQE (IQE), Keywords Studios (KWS) and Comstock Mining (LODE). Who are Burford Capital's key executives? Burford Capital's management team includes the following people: Mr. Christopher P. Bogart, Chief Exec. Officer (Age 53)Mr. Adam R. Gerchen, PresMr. Daniel Hall, Co-Founder, Co-Head of Global Corp. Intelligence, Asset Tracing, Enforcement Bus. & DirectorMs. Elizabeth O'Connell, Chief Financial Officer (Age 52)Mr. Quentin Pak, Director of Lead Operations What is Burford Capital's stock symbol? Burford Capital trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "BUR." How do I buy shares of Burford Capital? Shares of BUR and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock. What is Burford Capital's stock price today? One share of BUR stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 493. How big of a company is Burford Capital? Burford Capital has a market capitalization of £1.08 billion and generates £364.05 million in revenue each year. What is Burford Capital's official website? The official website for Burford Capital is www.burfordcapital.com. This page was last updated on 7/5/2020 by MarketBeat.com Staff 30 Days of MarketBeat All Access for $1.00 Sign up for MarketBeat All Access to gain access to MarketBeat's full suite of research tools: Best-in-Class Portfolio Monitoring View the latest news, buy/sell ratings, SEC filings and insider transactions for your stocks. Compare your portfolio performance to leading indices and get personalized stock ideas based on your portfolio. Stock Ideas and Recommendations Get daily stock ideas top-performing Wall Street analysts. Get short term trading ideas from the MarketBeat Idea Engine. 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