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Burford Capital (BUR) guidance and outlook

Burford Capital's 10-Q filed Nov 4, 2026 makes 15 forward-looking statements.

Guidance and outlook

Forward-looking statements, 10-Q filed Nov 4, 2026

• Our largest business is providing capital to clients engaged in ongoing legal disputes, which they can use both to pay the legal fees and expenses associated with disputes and to monetize the expected future value of disputes.
• We do not expect this volatility to have a significant impact on the performance of our legal finance portfolio or our financial results.
• Inevitably, some of our matters (and thus our cash realizations from them) in jurisdictions impacted by court backlogs have been slowed by these dynamics, and we saw impact from that in our financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025 as extensions of expected duration reduced the fair value of certain assets.
• As part of our fair value methodology, we discount the expected future cash flows.
• Given the much-reduced value of the YPF-related assets, we no longer intend to provide YPF-specific financial information unless the YPF-related assets again become individually financially significant, nor will we continue to provide financial information about our business on an ex-YPF basis other than as needed to understand historical financial information.
• The timing of realizations is difficult to forecast and is rarely in our control.
• In addition to legal finance assets funded directly through our balance sheet, our Principal Finance segment also selectively allocates balance sheet capital through interests in certain private funds, which tend to target a lower overall risk return profile.
• As of September 30, 2026, Moody’s had affirmed our existing credit ratings and negative outlook and assigned a senior secured note rating, while S&P had affirmed our senior unsecured note rating and stable outlook and assigned a senior secured note rating.
• We manage our business with appropriate levels of leverage and have laddered debt maturities with an overall weighted average maturity in excess of the expected weighted average life of our legal finance assets.
• Going forward, we expect to continue to be an opportunistic issuer of debt securities and may issue new debt securities from time to time to fund our growth, or refinance future debt maturities, among other things.
• We do not intend to declare interim dividends for the year ending December 31, 2026; we will evaluate the potential for future dividends as our portfolio matures and our leverage level reduces.
• Over the longer term, we expect to continue to fund our business operations principally through proceeds realized from our capital provision assets, supplemented as appropriate by access to the capital markets and other financing arrangements.

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What does Burford Capital expect?

Our largest business is providing capital to clients engaged in ongoing legal disputes, which they can use both to pay the legal fees and expenses associated with disputes and to monetize the expected future value of disputes. We do not expect this volatility to have a significant impact on the performance of our legal finance portfolio or our financial results. Inevitably, some of our matters (and thus our cash realizations from them) in jurisdictions impacted by court backlogs have been slowed by these dynamics, and we saw impact from that in our financial results for the year ended December

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Updated Nov 8, 2026. Read automatically from SEC filings and public data; errors are possible. Not investment advice.