Burford Capital (BUR) stock
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Key facts on BUR
| Since its 2024 high | Down 77% |
| Latest filing | 8-K, Nov 4 |
BUR in the news
BUR catalysts
After its last 4 reports it closed -0.3% on average, higher 2 of 4 times.
Why BUR scores -3
Poorfor quality, not price, 4 of 14 chart checks firingWhat the Quality Score means
- +4Chart checks 4 of 14 firing right now, one point each
- −3Long-term trend below a falling 200-day average, down over one year, down over two years
- Profit subtracts
- Growth subtracts
- Volatility subtracts
- Cash flow subtracts
How BUR ranks in Financial Services
BUR is #10 of 12 by Quality Score.
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When does BUR report earnings, and what happens after?
Expected to report Thu Feb 25, before the open (in 107 days).
What an earnings report is: every 3 months, a company tells everyone how much it sold and earned. We read the figures, the outlook, and how the stock moved after.
What BUR reported on Nov 4, 2026
The quarter
The figures are not read from the release yet.
“Timing of realizations varies during quarters, though decrease in YTD26 realizations is due to the non-recurrence of single asset that generated a recovery of $94 million in 2025”
Where the sales came from
BUR's results filing gives no sales by line in a table we read. Its annual report gives the year's, in About.
The outlook
No outlook figures read from this release.
In the company's words
“Private funds portfolio expected to decline in size in coming years with focus on funding portfolio from the balance sheet”
From its results filing (SEC filing · Nov 4)
The numbers
- $870M
- today
- -$1.4B
- down 402% on the year
- -$292M
- last 12 months
Sales grew 4.7% a year over 5 years, fiscal 2020 to 2025.
Its share count grew 0.4% a year over 5 years.
Close after the report, last 4
| Reported | Gap | Reaction | 5 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 2026 | +4.0% | +9.8% | -3.7% |
| Aug 6, 2026 | -0.5% | +0.7% | +2.6% |
| May 8, 2026 | -3.9% | -0.4% | -6.2% |
| Feb 26, 2026 | -10.5% | -11.1% | -12.6% |
BUR sales and profit by year
Sales grew in two of the last six years, to $413M in 2025. It made a profit in six of the seven years.
BUR has 4 of 14 chart checks firing
BUR RSI today: 51.1, below its 50-day and 200-day averages
RSI 51.1, MACD above signal, below both averages. Not scored.
The deep dive on BUR
- What it does and how it makes moneyAnnual report, filed Feb 26, 2026
- Where it stands
- Who holds and trades it
Is BUR's dividend covered? What its financials say
Its free cash flow over the last four quarters was -$292M, while it paid dividends.
| Dividend | $0.12 a share a year |
| Paid out | About $28.1M a year |
| Free cash flow | -$292M |
BUR's officers and directors
Officers and directors with a Form 4 in the last 12 months.
About Burford Capital
Burford Capital Ltd provides capital against the underlying value of litigation and legal assets, known as legal finance, serving the legal industry with financial products and services. Its business is funding clients engaged in ongoing legal disputes to pay legal fees and monetize the expected future value of disputes, focusing on large, complex matters. The company has two reportable segments: Principal Finance, which earns maximum revenue and allocates capital to legal finance assets from its balance sheet and through interests in private funds managed by the company, and Asset Management and Other Services, which manages legal finance assets for third-party investors and provides other services to the legal industry.
What Burford Capital says it competes with
“The legal finance industry is highly competitive and evolving as new competitors enter the market, which has affected and could affect our competitiveness in the future.”
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What does BUR's Quality Score say?
BUR scores -3 today, which Breakaway calls Poor. It is #10 of 12 in Financial Services by Quality Score, with 4 of 14 chart checks firing. Breakaway does not say whether to buy any stock: the score does not know your situation, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Please do your own research.
What is BUR's Quality Score?
BUR scores -3 today, which Breakaway calls Poor (below zero). That is #10 of 12 in Financial Services by Quality Score. The score adds up the chart checks, the trend, the company's filed sales, its profits, the news, insider trades, and Congress trades. The section above lists the lines behind BUR's -3.
When does BUR report earnings?
Expected to report Thu Feb 25, before the open, a date Breakaway expects from the company's usual timing; the company has not confirmed it. BUR closed higher after 2 of its last 4 reports. Past behavior, not a forecast.
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