Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

3rd Apr 2014 09:05

Associated British Foods: Citi increases target price from 2350p to 3000p, while its neutral rating remains unchanged.Booker Group: Investec shifts target price from 172p to 178p retaining a buy recommendation.BSkyB: HSBC Holdings moves target price from 600p to 610p, while keeping its underweight rating.Burberry: Deutsche Bank cuts target price from 1600p to 1575p maintaining its hold recommendation.CSR: N+1 Singer raises target price to 777p and reiterates its hold recommendation.Daily Mail & General Trust: Jefferies increases target price from 800p to 1016p and maintains a buy recommendation.Direct Line Group: Berenberg ups target price from 230p to 254p and keeps a hold recommendation.easyJet: JP Morgan raises target price from 1725p to 1965p and reiterates an overweight rating.First Group: JP Morgan lowers target price from 165p to 156p and keeps an overweight rating.Glaxo Smith Kline: JP Morgan reduces target price from 1750p to 1700p leaving its neutral rating unchanged.Greene King: JP Morgan lowers target price from 960p to 940p maintaining a neutral rating.Heritage Oil: UBS reduces target price from 325p to 300p, while its buy recommendation is kept.HSBC Holdings: Investec reduces target price from 745p to 640p and downgrades from buy to hold.Hyder Consulting: Investec upgrades from hold to buy with a target price of 510p.Ithaca Energy: Canaccord Genuity lowers target price from 180p to 175p, while its buy recommendation is kept.Lonmin: RBC Capital cuts target price from 370p to 360p and retains an outperform rating.Marston's: JP Morgan reduces target price from 180p to 155p staying with its neutral rating.McBride: Investec places both its target price (prev.: 120p) and its buy recommendation under review. Panmure Gordon cuts target price from 120p to 100p downgrading from buy to hold.Merlin Entertainment: Deutsche Bank raises target price from 395p to 430p and stays with its buy recommendation.Minoan Group: WH Ireland shifts target price from 20p to 28p and stays with its speculative buy recommendation.Mitchells & Butlers: JP Morgan increases target price from 460p to 530p upgrading to overweight.Parkmead Group: Westhouse Securities initiates with a target price of 400p and a buy recommendation.Pennon Group: UBS takes target price from 725p to 795p and reiterates a buy recommendation.Polymetal International: Citi lowers target price from 452p to 450p and stays with its sell recommendation.Resolution: Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 375p to 300p maintaining a hold recommendation.Restaurant Group: JP Morgan shifts target price from 750p to 755p retaining an overweight rating.Rotork: RBC Capital initiates with a target price of 2800p and a neutral rating.Severn Trent: UBS takes target price from 1825p to 1885p leaving its neutral rating unaltered.Smith & Nephew: Numis downgrades from add to hold with a target price of 1000p.Spirax-Sarco Engineering: RBC Capital initiates with a target price of 3250p and an outperform rating.Tullow Oil: UBS cuts target price from 925p to 900p, while upgrading from neutral to buy.United Utilities: UBS ups target price from 750p to 775p keeping a neutral rating.Wincanton: Investec upgrades from hold to buy with a target price of 155p.