BUR.L - Burford Capital Limited
| Previous close | 800.00 |
| Open | 811.00 |
| Bid | 821.00 x 0 |
| Ask | 822.50 x 0 |
| Day's range | 803.65 - 843.43 |
| 52-week range | 380.20 - 2,045.00 |
| Volume | 387,514 |
| Avg. volume | 2,489,968 |
| Market cap | 1.778B |
| Beta (3Y monthly) | 1.77 |
| PE ratio (TTM) | 4.76 |
| EPS (TTM) | 174.10 |
| Earnings date | 25 Jul 2017 - 31 Jul 2017 |
| Forward dividend & yield | 0.07 (0.84%) |
| Ex-dividend date | 2019-11-14 |
| 1y target est | 27.05 |
- Simply Wall St.
Do Insiders Own Shares In Burford Capital Limited (LON:BUR)?
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- Stockopedia
The Burford Capital share price amp;ndash; where next?
The Burford Capital (LON:BUR) share price has risen by 18.6% over the past month and it’s currently trading at 803.96p. The move follows a sharp pull back in t8230;
- Reuters - UK Focus
UPDATE 1-Britain's Burford takes legal action to get share data from LSE
Burford Capital began legal action on Monday against the London Stock Exchange seeking trading data it said it needs to investigate alleged manipulation of its share price. Burford, a company which specialises in financing litigation, raised concerns about trading activity on Aug. 12 after a sharp fall in its shares, alleging 'spoofing' and 'layering', where traders make and cancel orders to influence share prices, and said it was investigating. London-listed Burford last month commissioned a report from Columbia University academic and data analyst Joshua Mitts to assess publicly available market data on its shares.
- Reuters
Britain's Burford takes legal action to get share data from LSE
Burford Capital began legal action on Monday against the London Stock Exchange seeking trading data it said it needs to investigate alleged manipulation of its share price. Burford raised concerns about trading activity on Aug. 12 after a sharp fall in its shares, alleging 'spoofing' and 'layering', where traders make and cancel orders to influence share prices, and said it was investigating. A spokesperson for the LSE was not immediately able to comment when contacted by Reuters about the legal action by litigation financing specialist Burford.
- Yahoo Finance UK
Burford Capital goes to court to find who shorted its stock
Burford said there were 'strong grounds' to believe the huge decline in its share price was largely as a result of unlawful trading.
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What You Must Know About Burford Capital Limited's (LON:BUR) Beta Value
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- Fool.co.uk
Is Burford Capital share price set to recover from Muddy Waters’ short attack?
Could it be time snap up Burford Capital shares, as the litigation funder continues its fight-back against short-seller Muddy Waters?
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Warning! I think the Burford Capital share price could fall another 30%
Further reputational damage could send shares in Burford Capital Limited (LON:BUR) down to book value
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US short-seller Muddy Waters doubles down on Burford Capital attack
Muddy Waters Research has put out its third report attacking Burford Capital in a month.
- Reuters - UK Focus
UPDATE 2-Woodford listed fund hits record low on valuation cut
Shares in Woodford Capital Patient Trust, the listed fund run by money manager Neil Woodford, hit a record low on Friday after the trust's administrator said it would cut the valuation of one of its biggest holdings. Veteran money manager Woodford froze his flagship equity income fund on June 3 because it could not meet redemption requests, a move which has prompted outcry from lawmakers and investors, a probe by regulators and share price losses or outflows from his other two funds. Link Fund Solutions said on Friday it would cut the valuation of WPCT's stake in IH Holdings, a unit of cold fusion technology firm Industrial Heat.
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Finance firm Burford Capital caught up in sex tape claim
A former Burford client alleges an executive there traded confidential documents for a sex tape related to an oil billionaire.
- Reuters - UK Focus
UPDATE 2-UK shares bag gains after delayed stock market open
The main index rose 0.7% with all sectors in the black, while the FTSE 250 index outperformed with a 1% rise owing to gains in the local currency. The outage, which was the longest in eight years and delayed trading for almost two hours, came during a volatile week for global financial markets, which were hit by worries about an impending recession and a prolonged U.S.-China trade spat. The FTSE 100's weekly run, which had dragged the index to six-month lows at one point, has placed it on course for its worst month in nearly four years.
- Reuters - UK Focus
UPDATE 2-Burford brings in caretaker CFO in governance overhaul
Burford Capital, the litigation funder embroiled in a stand-off with short-seller Muddy Waters, on Thursday confirmed plans for a dual U.S. listing as it replaced its finance chief over investor concerns about her marriage to the CEO. Burford was pitched into crisis last week after Muddy Waters issued a report challenging its accounts and governance structure, including the concentration of influence in the hands of Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth O'Connell and Chief Executive Christopher Bogart, her husband.
- Reuters
Burford brings in caretaker CFO in governance overhaul
Burford was pitched into crisis last week after Muddy Waters issued a report challenging its accounts and governance structure, including the concentration of influence in the hands of Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth O'Connell and Chief Executive Christopher Bogart, her husband. Burford, which is listed on London's junior AIM market, said O'Connell was handing the financial reins to caretaker Jim Kilman, the company's former principal investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Burford's structure is unusual in that none of the management sits on the board.
- Reuters - UK Focus
Burford to replace CFO amid shareholder concerns over her marriage
- Bloomberg
Muddy Waters’ Latest Target Is Missing a Big Point
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- For a company whose senior management team is staffed largely by hard-headed litigators, Burford Capital Ltd. is doing a lousy job of fighting off an attack by short-seller Carson Block.In a call with investors last week, Burford’s management declared confidently that its rebuttal of a highly critical report from Block’s Muddy Waters Research had “knocked it on the head.” Yet the shares of the London-listed company – which provides funding for corporate litigation – remain more than 40% below where they were when rumors of the impending short-campaign first emerged last week. This suggests Buford still hasn’t done enough to alleviate investor concerns, particularly regarding the company’s byzantine governance.In fairness, there’s blame on both sides here. It’s unhelpful that Muddy Waters declared a company with more than $400 million of cash and equivalents to be “arguably insolvent.” Comparing Burford’s accounting to Enron seemed calculated to encourage shareholders to sell first and ask questions later.As one might have expected from such a lawyer-heavy enterprise, Burford has responded vigorously, claiming it has identified trading patterns that demonstrate illegal market manipulation (something Muddy Waters denies). If proven, such behavior would be reprehensible. But it kind of misses the main point: How does Burford address some of the more reasonable issues raised by Block’s firm?A two-hour call with analysts and investors last week should have been the chance for Burford’s executives to shore up confidence. But shareholders have hardly recovered their nerve subsequently.Some of the answers in the session – such as how to better understand the company’s cash flow statement and how to clarify the book value of a prized piece of Argentinian litigation – were fuzzy. On governance matters the message was outright jarring. When asked, for example, why it was that Burford prefers to be listed on the less-regulated Aim market, its management team insisted that a switch to the main London market would be “expensive” and “burdensome.” “We’re not entirely clear of the benefits other than possibly, at a moment like this, it might make people feel any better,” the chief executive Chris Bogart said, although he did leave open the possibility of a second listing in the U.S.Saying that takes some gumption when your shares have just lost more than 1.5 billion pounds ($1.8 billion) of value, thereby burning countless U.K. retail investors as well as loyal institutional shareholders. (Bogart has taken a personal financial hit but he’s hardly on the breadline, having sold about 60 million pounds worth of shares last year).One reason why investors might indeed feel better about a main market listing is that Burford would then be bound by the U.K. Corporate Governance Code, instead of Guernsey’s, as is the case now. As I’ve pointed out, Burford’s governance is a long way from satisfactory. Given the level of managerial subjectivity involved in determining the value of the legal cases funded by the company (and by extension its profits), it’s troubling that the chief executive and finance director are husband and wife.Under the U.K. governance code, non-executive directors who serve for more than nine years are considered likely to have impaired independence. Yet all four members of Burford’s board, made up entirely of non-executives, exceed that tenure.One result of these arrangements is that Burford doesn’t have to disclose how much its top executives are paid. This seems remarkably coy. Would Burford investors who’ve done well backing the stock (until last week) care that much if those salaries were huge? The seeming reluctance to countenance change undermines the management’s insistence that Burford has a “strong focus on issues like governance and transparency.”“We are, after all, a firm run by lawyers,” Bogart said last week. “We know what it looks like when companies don’t do the right thing. That’s part of what we do every day for a living. And we have deliberately built a business that has high standards and high principles around these issues.”With respect, if Burford really was aware of how its governance practices look, it wouldn’t be run like this. It should rethink, quickly.To contact the author of this story: Chris Bryant at cbryant32@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: James Boxell at jboxell@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies. He previously worked for the Financial Times.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Yahoo Finance UK
Short seller denies Burford Capital claims of market manipulation: 'This is entirely normal'
Burford Capital was targeted by Muddy Waters Research last week. Burford claims its a victim of market manipulation.
