Burford Capital is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides legal finance products and services, comprising legal finance, strategies and post-settlement finance and is engaged in asset management business. Co. has two operating business segments: capital provision, which includes the provision of capital to the legal industry or in connection with legal matters, both directly and through investment in Co.'s managed funds; and asset management and other services, which include the provision of services to the legal industry, including litigation insurance. We show 1 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our BUR shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute BUR market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing BUR market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing BUR's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of BUR versus a peer is one thing; comparing
BUR market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like BUR can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching BUR by allowing them to research the BUR market cap history. |
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