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Burford Capital Ltd BUR

· Financials · Finance Services

FY2025 10-K, filed 2026-02-26
SEC EDGAR

Filing evidence summary

Caution evidenceCoverage 5/5 core metrics

Latest reported annual revenue changed -24.3% from the prior reported annual observation.

Backward-looking filed evidence under visible rules - not a rating, forecast or investment advice. Missing data is never scored.

Evidence signals

  • Revenue contracted

    Latest reported annual revenue changed -24.3% from the prior reported annual observation.

    Why this surfaced

    Direction threshold: above +2% constructive; below -2% caution; otherwise monitor. This is not labeled one-year growth when filing periods have a gap. Period end 2025-12-31.

  • Operating margin compressed

    Operating margin changed -15.4 percentage points from the prior annual period.

    Why this surfaced

    Direction threshold: more than +1 percentage point constructive; below -1 point caution. Period end 2025-12-31.

  • Free cash flow was negative

    Latest reported free cash flow was -$29M.

    Why this surfaced

    Free cash flow = operating cash flow minus capital expenditures; positive is supporting evidence, not a valuation conclusion. Period end 2025-12-31.

  • No current rule-based risk flags

    2 filing-based checks were evaluable.

    Why this surfaced

    The full financial analysis shows each value, threshold, and sector limitation.

Core trend metrics

Latest annual revenue growth
-24.3%
as of 2025-12-31
Latest annual operating margin
56.2%
as of 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
-$29M
as of 2025-12-31
Debt / equity
0.87x
as of 2025-12-31
ROIC snapshot
5.7%
period varies

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Where to look next

Risk checks

0of 2 rule-based checks flagged

Financial movement

  • Cash→ flat
  • Long-term debt→ flat
  • Inventory→ flat
  • Receivables→ flat
  • Current assets→ flat

Source & freshness

Source
SEC EDGAR XBRL
Fetched
2026-09-06
Latest period end
2025-12-31
Filings
EDGAR ↗

Reported segment mix

figures as filed · share of the filed sum · change vs the prior period in the same filing
Fiscal year ending 2025-12-3110-K filed 2026-02-26prior period 2024-12-31 from the same filingView filing
By product or service
Revenue
  • Asset Management1$6.31M
    50.0%
    -24.3% yoy
  • Management Fee Income$5.11M
    40.5%
    -25.3% yoy
  • Performance Fee Income$1.2M
    9.5%
    -20.0% yoy

Members sum to $12.6M against $413M consolidated (residual $401M) - eliminations or corporate lines the filer did not tag on this axis.

Latest quarter
Quarter ending 2026-03-3110-Q filed 2026-05-08prior period 2025-03-31 from the same filingView filing
  • Asset Management1$284K
    50.0%
    -81.5% yoy
  • Management Fee Income$284K
    50.0%
    -81.5% yoy
  • Performance Fee Income$0
    0.0%
    no prior

Change is against the same quarter a year earlier, as reported in the same 10-Q.

Source: SEC DERA Financial Statement and Notes data sets. Dimensional XBRL facts on the business-segment, product/service and geographic axes; the engine keeps the accession of every figure. Descriptive and educational, not advice.

Peer percentiles

latest fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 · among 4,122 US-listed filers · 907 in Financials
MetricValuevs all filersvs sector
Revenue
latest fiscal-year revenue as filed
$413M
41stof 3,301
middle third
50thof 541
middle third
Revenue growth
latest fiscal-year revenue vs the prior fiscal year
-24.3%
6thof 3,135
bottom third
5thof 518
bottom third
Operating margin
operating income ÷ revenue
56.1%
98thof 2,819
top third
86thof 234
top third
Net margin
net income ÷ revenue
15.1%
80thof 3,263
top third
50thof 534
middle third
Free-cash-flow margin
(operating cash flow − |capex|) ÷ revenue
-7.1%
25thof 2,679
bottom third
19thof 307
bottom third
Return on equity
net income ÷ stockholders' equity (positive equity only)
2.6%
47thof 3,577
middle third
25thof 774
bottom third
Interest coverage
operating income ÷ interest expense (interest expense > 0)
1.6×
51stof 819
middle third
48thof 80
middle third
Stock comp ÷ revenue
stock-based compensation ÷ revenue · lower is ranked higher
3.4%
42ndof 2,895
middle third
49thof 422
middle third
Cash conversion
operating cash flow ÷ net income (net income > 0)
-0.5×
5thof 2,183
bottom third
7thof 673
bottom third
Cash-flow accrual ratio
(net income − operating cash flow) ÷ average total assets · lower is ranked higher
1.4%
13thof 3,577
bottom third
18thof 804
bottom third
Balance-sheet accrual ratio
change in net operating assets ÷ average net operating assets · lower is ranked higher
3.0%
53rdof 3,059
middle third
62ndof 734
middle third

Each filer's latest fiscal year as stored by the nightly crawl; fiscal year ends differ across the universe. A metric ranks only filers for which it is computable from filed facts. Ties split; a rank reads "better than N% of filers" in the metric's own direction. Descriptive and educational, not a rating.

Earnings quality

latest fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 · accruals and cash conversion as filed
Cash conversion
-0.46×
operating cash flow ÷ net income, latest fiscal year
Cash-flow accrual ratio
1.4%
(net income − operating cash flow) ÷ average total assets
Balance-sheet accrual ratio
3.0%
change in net operating assets ÷ average net operating assets
Cash-backed years
1 of 4
fiscal years where operating cash flow met or exceeded net income
Mean cash conversion
-3.68×
across the stored fiscal years with positive net income

Per fiscal year from filed facts: cash conversion = operating cash flow / net income (net income > 0); cash-flow accrual ratio = (net income - operating cash flow) / average total assets; balance-sheet accrual ratio = change in net operating assets / average net operating assets, NOA = (assets - cash) - (liabilities - debt). Descriptive; a missing input yields a missing ratio. High accrual ratios and cash conversion well below one are the measures the accruals literature associates with less persistent earnings; they are screens to read the cash-flow statement with, not conclusions. The per-year series is part of Pro risk analysis.

Point-in-time ledger

first-reported vs latest filing · periods since 2020-01-01 · 0 changed periods

No period on file has changed between its first report and the latest filing carrying it.

First filing reporting each period vs the latest filing carrying it (10-K and 10-Q only, periods since 2020, the extractor's winning tag per concept); a change under 0.5% is treated as rounding. A change can be a restatement, a reclassification or a re-tagging in a later comparative column; the two filings are linked so the reader can see which. Descriptive, not a verdict.

Notes by disclosure type

Not available for BUR yet: no footnote text blocks on file for this filer in the ingested DERA files.

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