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Burford Capital - Shares spike 250p on results

September 2018

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  • Epic Code:
  • BUR
  • Price:
  • 1838p
The shares spiked over £2 to a new high of nearly £19 after Burford Capital reported results were ahead of expectations. The company, which lends money to law firms or large corporates in order for them to fund large corporate cases on a “no win no fee” or “no win low fee” basis, said interim results showed pretax profit up 14% to US$165m on sales that rose 17% to US$205.2m. Eps increased 21% to 77 US  cents, while cash receipts encouragingly jumped 61% to US$299m leaving the balance sheet relatively under geared at 0.39x net debt / equity.As an example of the pace of growth at end of 2016, it had funded US$368m of commitments across 21 cases. While it didn’t disclose cumulative commit ...

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