Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

12th Sep 2013 09:01

African Minerals: Deutsche Bank cuts target price from 550p to 450p and retains a buy recommendation. Citi lowers target price from 380p to 320p keeping a buy recommendation.Aggreko: Deutsche Bank reduces target price from 2100p to 1870p, while staying with its buy recommendation.ARM Holdings: Goldman Sachs raises target price from 1400p to 1500p and retains its strong buy recommendation. Numis ups target price from 750p to 800p maintaining a reduce rating.Ashmore Group: Morgan Stanley lowers target price from 420p to 410p, while its equal-weight rating remains unchanged.Aveva: Goldman Sachs increases target price from 3600p to 4450p and reiterates a strong buy recommendation.Barclays: Investec cuts target price from 345p to 330p downgrading from buy to add.Barratt Developments: Citi moves target price from 315p to 330p and maintains a neutral rating.Berendsen: Investec increases target price from 828p to 958p, while downgrading from buy to add.Betfair: Jefferies raises target price from 930p to 1175p and keeps a buy recommendation.Bodycote: Citi takes target price from 525p to 665p upgrading to neutral.Bovis Homes Group: Panmure Gordon shifts target price from 801p to 806p and reiterates its hold recommendation.Blinkx: Goldman Sachs increases target price from 152p to 215p and stays with its buy recommendation.British American Tabacco: Societe Generale cuts target price from 3650p to 3550p and maintains its hold recommendation.Fidessa: Goldman Sachs raises target price from 2050p to 2630p, while retaining a neutral rating.Greene King: JP Morgan downgrades to neutral with a target price of 880p.Imagination Technologies: Goldman Sachs ups target price from 310p to 390p and stays with its buy recommendation.Kier Group: Liberum Capital increases target price from 1500p to 1800p and stays with its buy recommendation. Investec raises target price from 1500p to 1955p maintaining a buy recommendation. Numis takes target price from 1670p to 1950p, but downgrades to add.Kingfisher: Bank of America moves target price from 400p to 450p leaving its neutral rating unchanged. Cantor Fitzgerald raises target price from 300p to 400p and retains a hold recommendation. Deutsche Bank takes target price from 360p to 400p reiterating a hold recommendation. Societe Generale ups target price from 392p to 414p leaving its hold recommendation unaltered.Marston's: JP Morgan cuts target price from 180p to 160p and downgrades to neutral.Melrose: Citi moves target price from 295p to 305p, while downgrading to neutral.Micro Focus: Goldman Sachs shifts target price from 770p to 775p, while downgrading from neutral to sell.Mitchells & Butlers: JP Morgan downgrades to underweight with a target price of 410p.Oxford BioMedica: N+1 Singer shifts target price from 4p to 3.60p retaining its buy recommendation.Oxford Resources: N+1 Singer ups target price from 1390p to 1425p maintaining a hold recommendation.Pace: Goldman Sachs takes target price from 330p to 370p and retains a neutral rating.Playtech: JP Morgan raises target price from 800p to 825p keeping its overweight rating.Premier Foods: Investec ups target price from 120p to 160p, but downgrades from buy to hold.Reed Elsevier: Jefferies takes target price from 700p to 884p and reiterates its buy recommendation.Restaurant Group: JP Morgans ups target price from 620p to 665p retaining an overweight rating.SABMiller: Nomura reduces target price from 3300p to 2800p and downgrades from neutral to reduce.Sage Group: Goldman Sachs takes target price from 366p to 410p and reiterates a neutral rating.Spectris: Citi increases target price from 2326p to 2650p and maintains a buy recommendation.Spirax-Sarco-Engineering: Citi raises target price from 2905p to 3040p, while downgrading to hold.Spirent Communications: Goldman Sachs moves target price from 165p to 175p and stays with a neutral rating.Telecity: Goldman Sachs ups target price from 1200p to 1230p keeping a buy recommendation.Thalassa Holdings: WH Ireland raises target price from 185p to 310p and retains a buy recommendation.TUI Travel: JP Morgan upgrades to overweight with a target price of 410p.Vedanta Resources: Alphavalue shifts target price from 1126.20p to 1121.60p, while upgrading from sell to reduce.WANdisco: Panmure Gordon downgrades from buy to hold with an unchanged target price of 1149p.Wolfson Microelectronics: Goldman Sachs moves target price from 145p to 160p, but still recommends selling.Young & Co's Brewery: JP Morgan ups target price from 910p to 980p, while downgrading to neutral.