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: 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.

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

As of April 9, 2025, BUR stock price declined to $11.58 with 307,688 million shares trading.

BUR has a beta of 1.18, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. BUR has a correlation of 0.40 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BUR has a market cap of $2.54 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 price return of -26.6% while the SPY ETF lost -2.4%. However, in the short term, BUR had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning -9.3% vs -15.1% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, BUR shares have been beat by the market, returning -17.3% compared to an SPY return of -13.3%.

BUR support price is $11.44 and resistance is $12.04 (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.