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Burford Capital (BUR) Competitors

GBX 1,067
+17.00 (+1.62%)
(As of 07/26/2024 ET)

BUR vs. PSH, ICP, SDRC, SDR, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW

Should you be buying Burford Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burford Capital include Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Burford Capital vs.

Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and Burford Capital (LON:BUR) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.

Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Burford Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Pershing Square pays out 436.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Burford Capital pays out 485.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pershing Square is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Burford Capital has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Burford Capital has a consensus price target of GBX 1,600, suggesting a potential upside of 49.95%. Given Pershing Square's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Burford Capital is more favorable than Pershing Square.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pershing Square
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
Burford Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than Burford Capital. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Burford Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pershing Square£3.14B2.21£2.49B£10.54358.06
Burford Capital£1.18B1.98£321.16M£2.06517.96

6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.5% of Burford Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.6% of Burford Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Burford Capital received 381 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Pershing SquareN/AN/A
Burford CapitalOutperform Votes
381
74.56%
Underperform Votes
130
25.44%

In the previous week, Pershing Square had 3 more articles in the media than Burford Capital. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Pershing Square and 0 mentions for Burford Capital. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Burford Capital's score of 0.60 indicating that Burford Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square Positive
Burford Capital Positive

Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 27.26%. Burford Capital's return on equity of 22.66% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pershing Square79.14% 22.66% 11.83%
Burford Capital 27.26%13.82%10.89%

Summary

Pershing Square beats Burford Capital on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BUR and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BUR vs. The Competition

MetricBurford CapitalAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.34B£827.46M£3.14B£1.57B
Dividend Yield0.89%6.46%4.62%8.65%
P/E Ratio517.96973.01483.701,851.73
Price / Sales1.9815,080.222,282.31312,118.10
Price / Cash3.2856.1449.5827.71
Price / Book1.031.411.472.73
Net Income£321.16M£47.19M£395.78M£176.67M
7 Day Performance1.23%0.08%0.28%0.04%
1 Month Performance5.85%1.58%1.83%1.60%
1 Year Performance3.44%5.68%13.62%93.09%

Burford Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PSH
Pershing Square
0 of 5 stars
0.00 / 5 stars
GBX 4,094
-2.8%
N/A+28.5%£7.53B£3.14B388.43N/ANews Coverage
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0 of 5 stars
0.00 / 5 stars
GBX 2,146.57
+1.6%
N/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
0 of 5 stars
0.00 / 5 stars
GBX 2,165
-2.0%
N/A+0.0%£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750News Coverage
High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.4587 of 5 stars
1.46 / 5 stars
GBX 377.60
-2.6%
GBX 432
+14.4%
-16.4%£6.08B£2.99B1,573.336,438News Coverage
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
1.0073 of 5 stars
1.01 / 5 stars
GBX 1,105
-1.2%
GBX 1,048.20
-5.1%
+22.8%£5.24B£753.30M1,601.452,277Gap Down
High Trading Volume
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
0 of 5 stars
0.00 / 5 stars
GBX 1,032
-0.8%
N/A+17.7%£5.18B£584.29M1,001.94N/ADividend Announcement
MNG
M&G
0.4037 of 5 stars
0.40 / 5 stars
GBX 202.70
-1.3%
GBX 224.17
+10.6%
+1.4%£4.82B£6.28B1,689.176,101
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
0 of 5 stars
0.00 / 5 stars
GBX 3,115
-2.5%
N/A+36.6%£3.75B£540M776.812,021
ATST
Alliance Trust
0 of 5 stars
0.00 / 5 stars
GBX 1,196
-1.3%
N/A+17.9%£3.40B£649.98M572.253Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
Positive News
UKW
Greencoat UK Wind
0 of 5 stars
0.00 / 5 stars
GBX 139.60
-1.8%
N/A-2.9%£3.20B£234.38M332.38N/ADividend Announcement
News Coverage

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This page (LON:BUR) was last updated on 7/27/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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