Thursday broker round-up

8th Nov 2012 09:01

AB Foods: Credit Suisse ups tagged from 1,300p to 1,450p, outperform rating kept.Aviva: Panmure Gordon keeps buy rating and 425p target.Balfour Beatty: Panmure Gordon keeps buy rating and 310p target.BTG: Jefferies keeps hold rating and 360p target; Panmure Gordon keeps hold rating and 400p target.Chemring: Credit Suisse keeps neutral rating and 330p target.Dairy Crest: Jefferies keeps buy rating and 400p target; Panmure Gordon maintains buy rating and 385p target.Electrocomponents: Panmure Gordon reiterates sell rating and 175p target.Experian: Jefferies keeps hold rating and 1,200p target.Fenner: Panmure Gordon cuts target from 465p to 460p, buy rating kept.Howden: Panmure Gordon keeps hold rating and 110p target.Imagination Tech: UBS upgrades to neutral, target lifted from 470p to 480p.JD Wetherspoon: Panmure Gordon raises target from 520p to 615p, buy rating kept.Land Securities: Jefferies keeps hold rating and 849p target; Panmure Gordon keeps hold rating and 820p target.Marks & Spencer: HSBC upgrades to overweight, target lifted from 350p to 450p.Marshalls: Panmure Gordon keeps hold rating and 95p target.Micro Focus: Merchant Securities retains hold rating, institutes 600p target (previously under review).Morrison: Jefferies keeps buy rating and 330p target; Seymour Pierce retains reduce rating; Panmure Gordon maintains sell rating and 240p target.Pennon: Nomura cuts target from 755p to 730p, neutral rating kept.Randgold Resources: HB Markets downgrades to hold.Reed Elsevier: Jefferies keeps buy rating and 635p target.Rightmove: Westhouse Securities upgrades to neutral, target lifted from 1,434p to 1,506p.RSA: Panmure Gordon reiterates hold rating and 110p target.Sainsbury: Seymour Pierce keeps hold rating, 310p target under review.Severn Trent: Nomura cuts target from 1,645p to 1,550p, neutral rating kept.Spirax Sarco: Jefferies keeps hold rating and 2,045p target.Spirent Communications: Jefferies keeps buy rating and 169p target; Panmure Gordon cuts target from 188p to 184p, buy rating kept.Sportech: Panmure Gordon keeps buy rating and 71p target.SuperGroup: Seymour Pierce keeps buy rating and 750p target; Panmure Gordon upgrades from hold to buy, target lifted from 662p to 750p.Talvivaara: Seymour Pierce keeps hold rating.Tate & Lyle: Jefferies keeps buy rating and 800p target.United Utilities: Nomura downgrades from buy to neutral, target cut from 715p to 660p.Vedanta: Jefferies keeps hold rating and 1,100p target.BC