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How Burford Capital Limited stacks up
BUR · against 161 other Financial Services companies listed in US-listed
Profitability
2/ 100
Near the bottom of its peers.
Ranked #158 of 162 · scores higher than 2% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score12 peers with a profitability score of 0–9, including BUR · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 2?
Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.Mainly because of its return on assets and return on invested capital, which are weaker than most Financial Services peers.
- a lower return on assets: weaker than 99% of peers. Return on assets: -18.2% vs peer median 2.6%
- a lower return on invested capital: weaker than 98% of peers. Return on invested capital: -31.4% vs peer median 6.3%
- Operating margin is not reported, so it is left out of the score.
Metric by metric
Position: dot = BUR, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | BUR | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 157 reported | -31.4% | 7.1% | 3% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 84 reported | Not reported | 23.1% | — | — | 33% |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 183 reported | -18.2% | 2.6% | 1% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 176 reported | -72.1% | 10.4% | 1% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 200 reported | 0.0% | 83.0% | 1% | Context only |
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Ranking by profitability score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around BUR| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 566.9B USD | 99 | 48 | |
| 2 | 2.7B USD | 98 | 63 | |
| 2 | 31.1B USD | 98 | 65 | |
| 4 | 4.2B USD | 97 | 55 | |
| 4 | 2.7B USD | 97 | 58 | |
| 155 | 18.7B USD | 5 | 19 | |
| 156 | 385M USD | 4 | 36 | |
| 156 | 3.9B USD | 4 | 40 | |
| 158 | 2.0B USD | 2 | 26 | |
| 158 | 832M USD | 2 | 17 | |
| 160 | 5.7B USD | 1 | 3 | |
| 160 | 33M USD | 1 | 39 | |
| 162 | 249M USD | 0 | 31 |
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score