Friday broker round-up UPDATE

22nd Nov 2013 08:04

African Barrick Gold: Westhouse Securities upgrades to neutral with a target price of 170p.Antofagasta: Investec cuts target price from 737p to 716p and keeps a sell recommendation.Bank of Georgia: Numis raises target price from 2101p to 2662p and maintains a buy recommendation. Canaccord Genuity increases target price from 1610p to 2100p reiterating a hold recommendation.Centrica: Goldman Sachs reduces target price from 447p to 399p, while its buy recommendation is kept.Close Brothers Group: Numis moves target price from 1015p to 1023p reiterating its reduce rating.Computacenter: Credit Suisse raises target price from 595p to 734p retaining an outperform rating.Daily Mail & General Trust: Canaccord Genuity takes target price from 751p to 886p, while maintaining a hold recommendation.easyJet: Liberum Capital increases target price from 1500p to 1600p and stays with its buy recommendation.Faroe Petroleum: Canaccord Genuity lowers target price from 164p to 156p, while staying with its buy recommendation.Fuller Smith & Turner: Panmure Gordon raises target price from 834p to 900p leaving its hold recommendation unaltered.Future: Numis places both its target price (prev.: 16p) and its hold recommendation under review.Glencore Xstrata: Liberum Capital downgrades to sell.Intermediate Capital: Numis cuts target price from 500p to 436p and keeps its hold recommendation.Investec: Numis ups target price from 518p to 550p retaining a buy recommendation.Johnson Matthey: Deutsche Bank increases target price from 3050p to 3650p and retains a buy recommendation. Goldman Sachs takes target price from 3400p to 3550p reiterating a buy recommendation. Citi raises target price from 2700p to 3100p and retains a neutral rating.London Stock Exchange: Goldman Sachs ups target price from 1250p to 1310p, but still recommends selling.Meggitt: Jefferies raises target price from 365p to 550p, while keeping a hold recommendation.Merlin Entertainment: Deutsche Bank initiates with a target price of 395p and a buy recommendation.MITIE: Jefferies ups target price from 285p to 315p and maintains a hold recommendation.Randgold Resources: Liberum Capital downgrades to hold with a target price of 5410p.Royal Mail: Nomura starts with a target price of 400p and a neutral rating.Sainsbury: Credit Suisse raises target price from 285p to 345p, while leaving its underperform rating unchanged.Serco Group: Credit Suisse upgrades from neutral to outperform with a target price of 500p.Thomas Cook Group: Alphavalue shifts target price from 154.8p to 155.5p, while downgrading from add to reduce.William Hill: Barclays upgrades to overweight with a target price of 440p.