BURFORD CAPITAL LTD (BUR)
Financials · Litigation Finance / Legal Lending · NYSE
A global legal finance platform that capitalizes major litigation and legal disputes for the world's largest law firms and corporations, generating returns from portfolio growth and case outcomes.
What BURFORD CAPITAL LTD does
Burford Capital is the world's largest dedicated provider of capital for legal finance, offering financial products and services to businesses and law firms engaged in ongoing legal disputes. The company provides capital ranging from $5 million to hundreds of millions to fund legal fees, expenses, and monetize expected future dispute values. Burford manages a global legal finance portfolio of $7.5 billion grown organically since its 2009 inception and through private funds where it earns asset management income.
Themes: ["Legal finance / litigation finance"]
Fundamentals
- Price$4.24 as of 2026-07-09 close
- Market cap$700M as of 2026-07-10
- 1-year return-71.0% as of 2026-07-09 close
- P/E14.99 as of 2026-07-10
- Net margin+15.1% as of 2026-07-10
- Gross margin+99.5% as of 2026-07-10
- ROE-77.3% as of 2026-07-10
- Debt / equity2.90 as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue growth (YoY)+9.0% as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+9.0% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.74 as of 2026-07-10
Dividend: yield +3.0%; 4-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Adverse litigation outcomes and timing of case resolution directly impact returns on legal finance assets"]
Competitors & peers
- Litigation Capital Management
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-10. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-09.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.