Short interest in Burford Capital Ltd (NYSE:BUR) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 6.05M to 7.67M. This put 3.84% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Burford Capital gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Burford Capital's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 506.32K shares traded per day, it would take 15.14 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.