BUR Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Burford Capital | NYSE:BUR)

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: Capital provision, which is the provision of capital to the legal industry or in connection with legal matters, both directly and through investment in the group's managed funds; 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.

Burford Capital trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BUR.

As of January 30, 2025, BUR stock price declined to $14.31 with 850,255 million shares trading.

BUR has a beta of 1.01, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. BUR has a correlation of 0.22 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BUR has a market cap of $3.14 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, BUR traded as high as $17.70 and as low as $6.09.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BUR belongs to (by Net Assets): IWM, IWN, VTWO, VTWV, RSSL.

BUR has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -5.8%, while SPY returned +24.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in BUR shares. However, BUR has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +4.7% and +9.8%, while SPY returned +4.7% and +2.3%, respectively. This indicates BUR has been having a stronger performance recently.

BUR support price is $14.05 and resistance is $14.67 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BUR shares will trade within this expected range on the day.