Burford Capital Limited (NYSE:BUR) has a beta value of 1.00 and has seen 3.01 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $3.04B, closed the last trade at $13.9 per share which meant it lost -$0.47 on the day or -3.27% during that session. The BUR stock price is -13.17% off its 52-week high price of $15.73 and 23.02% above the 52-week low of $10.70. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 3.92 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 1.80 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Burford Capital Limited (BUR) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.00. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 0 out of 1 have rated it as a Hold, with 1 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.36.
Burford Capital Limited (NYSE:BUR) trade information
Sporting -3.27% in the red in last session, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the BUR stock price touched $13.9 or saw a rise of 7.95%. Year-to-date, Burford Capital Limited shares have moved 2.96%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -4.66%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Burford Capital Limited (NYSE:BUR) have changed 8.09%. Short interest in the company has seen 4.67 million shares shorted with days to cover at 3.5.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $18, which means that the shares’ value could jump 22.78% from current levels. The projected low price target is $18.0 while the price target rests at a high of $18.0. In that case, then, we find that the current price level is -29.5% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -29.5% from current levels.
Burford Capital Limited (BUR) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 11.11% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 46.08%.
2 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 159.02M for the current quarter. 2 have an estimated revenue figure of 183.81M for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 137.28M and 226.03M respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 15.84% for the current quarter and 46.08% for the next.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -7.52% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 123.03% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 47.59%.
BUR Dividends
Burford Capital Limited is expected to release its next earnings report in August this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.12 at a share yield of 0.90%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.
Burford Capital Limited (NYSE:BUR)’s Major holders
Insiders own 9.23% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 64.50% with a share float percentage of 71.06%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Burford Capital Limited having a total of 294.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are MITHAQ CAPITAL SPC with over 10.54 million shares worth more than $137.6 million. As of 2024-06-30, MITHAQ CAPITAL SPC held 4.8137% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 10.52 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $137.3 million and represent 4.8029% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF and AIM Sector Funds (Invesco Sector Funds)-INVESCO SMALL CAP VALUE FUND . As of May 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 2.30% shares in the company for having 5.04 shares of worth $70.02 million while later fund manager owns 3.41 shares of worth $47.39 million as of Apr 30, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 1.56% of company’s outstanding stock.