A director at Burford Capital Ltd maiden bought 25,283 shares at 13.250USD and the significance rating of the trade was 80/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last two ...
Full Article at IIR has reaffirmed its Recommended rating for PIA after undertaking a review post the appointment of a new Portfolio Manager, Harding Loevner. The full report can be found on the IIR website. On 26 July 2021, Pengana International Equities Limited (PIA) announced a fully franked dividend of 1.35 cents per share for the June quarter. This represents an 8% increase on the March quarter dividend and takes the total dividends declared for FY21 of 5.1 cents per share, fully franked....
Feature article - Safer harbour REITs: an update This month's feature article is an excerpt from a sector paper originally published in May. The paper provides an update on our 2019 research, identifying more secure real estate income REIT opportunities. We see the benefits of these “safer harbour†REITs as being apparent in both good and bad markets. In the past 12 months, the basket of 16 REITs has outperformed the sector by over 11%, and also outperformed the wider market. It has beate...
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Research: Burford Capital (BUR): Putting fears to rest 03-Jun-2020 / 16:25 GMT/BST Hardman & Co Research: Putting fears to rest Burford has announced its results for 2019. As previously indicated, these were lower than in the previous year. Revenue fell 17% from $430m in 2018 to $357m. Profit after tax, on Burford's basis, declined 31% from $329m to $226m. As announced earlier, there will be no final dividend so only the interim dividend of ¢4.17 was paid for FY19. Unusually, Burford has also released a trading update for early 2020 alongside its...
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Feature article - Privatisation: Whose flame has burnt the brightest? Much of the UK’s privatisation programme took place between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s: subsequent sales have been few. Undoubtedly, privatisation attracted many private investors to the market, many for the first time. Following the 50.2% sale of British Telecom (BT) shares in 1984, which was the first mass privatisation, other utility stocks were sold off, notably British Gas (BG), the English and Welsh water compa...
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Research: Burford Capital (BUR): Mixture of strong and weak activity in 2019 26-Feb-2020 / 14:10 GMT/BST Hardman & Co Research: Mixture of strong and weak activity in 2019 Burford recently released its first-ever trading statement, covering cash activity in 2019. Group-wide commitments set a new record of $1.57bn, a 24% increase. Overall deployments were almost flat compared with 2018, at £1.07bn. In both, the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) and fund arrangements increased their share. It was, however, a quiet second half for realisations on-balance ...
Burford recently released its first-ever trading statement, covering cash activity in 2019. Group-wide commitments set a new record of $1.57bn, a 24% increase. Overall deployments were almost flat compared with 2018, at £1.07bn. In both, the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) and fund arrangements increased their share. It was, however, a quiet second half for realisations on-balance sheet in the core litigation finance business. 2019 profits will be lower than in 2018, with Burford indicating that ne...
We recently published a paper, Share ownership: For the many, not the few, based on a statistical survey of share ownership, produced jointly with Argus Vickers, the share analysis service. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has now issued its equivalent survey. This paper compares its results with ours. Although there are, inevitably, differences in the detail, the two surveys reach the same conclusions. The two key themes from the surveys are that: i) investors from the Rest of the World...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is due to publish its most up-to-date survey on share ownership in mid-January, which identifies the beneficial owners and decision- makers of the stock market. Hardman & Co has worked together with the share analysis service, Argus Vickers, to jointly produce its own survey, which anticipates the conclusions of the ONS survey but goes into much greater detail. Our work does not use a sample of 200 quoted companies as the ONS historically has, but rather ...
In the aftermath of a dramatic period, Burford has provided additional disclosure that greatly improves understanding of its fair value process and its conservatism. The timing of when fair value adjustments are made has been well explained previously, with clear objective criteria. How the amount of each valuation change is determined has also had some clarification, with an objective core overlaid by adjustments that involve some judgement. Detailed data have also been provided on the 20 concl...
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Research: Burford Capital (BUR): Strong evidence that fair value is fair 17-Oct-2019 / 13:29 GMT/BST Hardman & Co Research: Strong evidence that fair value is fair In the aftermath of a dramatic period, Burford has provided additional disclosure that greatly improves understanding of its fair value process and its conservatism. The timing of when fair value adjustments are made has been well explained previously, with clear objective criteria. How the amount of each valuation change is determined has also had some clarification, with an objective ...
Burford has announced its interim results for 1H’19 and has produced another excellent set of figures. After stripping out third-party interests, revenue was up 40% to $287m and earnings grew 36% to $225m. Litigation investment was again the star, with income also increasing 36% to $265m. While this saw some benefit from the recent Petersen transaction, there were strong results beyond that with the rest of the portfolio producing a first-half RoIC of 78%. These brought total recoveries to $1....
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Research: Burford Capital (BUR) Results don't need to be appealed 05-Aug-2019 / 09:40 GMT/BST Hardman & Co Research: Results don't need to be appealed Burford has announced its interim results for 1H'19 and has produced another excellent set of figures. After stripping out third-party interests, revenue was up 40% to $287m and earnings grew 36% to $225m. Litigation investment was again the star, with income also increasing 36% to $265m. While this saw some benefit from the recent Petersen transaction, there were strong results beyond that with the rest of...
Burford has made a double announcement about the Petersen case. Argentina had appealed to the US Supreme Court over the decision about where the case will be heard. The Court has declined to hear the appeal, so proceedings will take place in the US. Burford has also sold another 10% of its entitlement in the case for $100m; implying a market price of $1bn, ca.25% above the value implied by the smaller July 2018 transaction. Additional disclosure is that the sale took place to 11 institutional in...
Hardman & Co Research Hardman & Co Research: Burford Capital (BUR): Petersen appeals to investors 09-Jul-2019 / 11:16 GMT/BST Hardman & Co Research: Petersen appeals to investors Burford has made a double announcement about the Petersen case. Argentina had appealed to the US Supreme Court over the decision about where the case will be heard. The Court has declined to hear the appeal, so proceedings will take place in the US. Burford has also sold another 10% of its entitlement in the case for $100m; implying a market price of $1bn, ca.25% above the value implied by the smaller July 2018 tr...
This Investment Research Paper addresses the issue of renewable power generation in the UK and in mainland Europe, which – after the deep-seated financial crisis of 2008/09 and the ensuing recession – now has better prospects of achieving critical mass. It also considers investment perspectives. In recent years, there has been a major shift in favour of renewable generation. It has been led by wind generation, mainly on-shore but also increasingly off-shore. In the UK’s case, there has be...
Burford has announced access to almost $1bn of new capital, which, combined with its balance sheet, gives a new and financially attractive structure for how the next $1.6bn of litigation finance investments will be made. The most significant part of this is a new strategic capital relationship with a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). The SWF and Burford have committed a $1bn pool of capital, with the former supplying $667m. Burford will supply the remaining one-third of the capital, but receive 60% o...
Burford has placed 10.41m new shares with institutional investors through an accelerated bookbuild. The price per share was 1850p, making a total of £192.6m ($251.2m) raised before expenses. The funding will be applied to business expansion, with new geographies such as parts of the United States that have not been fully addressed yet, Australia and Germany specifically mentioned as well as adding to the team in existing locations. The announcement also mentions new products, which have been th...
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