Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

7th Mar 2013 07:25

Admiral: Nomura raises target price from 1350p to 1493p keeping a buy recommendation.African Barrick Gold: Nomura cuts target price from 435p to 200p and downgrades from neutral to reduce.Aggreko: Investec increases target price from 1750p to 1940p upgrading from hold to buy.Anglo American: Nomura downgrades from neutral to reduce.Antofagasta: Goldman Sachs moves target price from 1075p to 1100p and upgrades to neutral.Ashtead Group: Cantor Fitzgerald raises target price from 500p to 650p reiterating abuy recommendation.Aviva: Panmure Gordon reduces target price from 425p to 340p and downgrades from buy to hold. Investec puts both its target price (prev.: 422p) and its buy recommendation under review.Avocet Mining: Liberum Capital upgrades to buy.Britvic: Investec raises target price from 315p to 447p retaining a buy recommendation.Balfour Beatty: Investec puts its target price (prev.: 200p) under review, while keeping its sell recommendation.Brammer: Canaccord Genuity raises target price from 372p to 410p and reiterates its buy recommendation.Bunzl: UBS upgrades from sell to neutral.Capita Group: Berenberg ups target price from 870p to 955p and keeps a buy recommendation.Centamin: Nomura reduces target price from 145p to 70p, while staying with its buy recommendation.Cineworld Group: Canaccord Genuity shifts target price from 350p to 360p, while its buy recommendation is reiterated. Investec moves target price from 295p to 310p and retains a buy rating.Clear Debt Group: Cantor Fitzgerald downgrades from buy to sell.Cobham: Investec puts both its target price (prev.: 205p) and its hold recommendation under review.Compass Group: Barclays shifts target price from 8.15p to 8.40p retaining an overweight rating.Daily Mail and General Trust: Credit Suisse raises target price from 700p to 830p, while its outperform rating is kept.Diageo: Credit Suisse moves target price from 1975p to 2350p and stays with its outperform rating.Fenner: Investec increases target price from 420p to 455p maintaining a hold recommendation.Griffin Mining: Panmure Gordon cuts target price from 134p to 80p, while reiterating its buy recommendation.IMI: Investec places both its target price (prev.: 1245p) and its hold recommendation under review.International Personal Finance: JP Morgan takes target price from 346p to 394p and reiterates a neutral rating.Iofina: Investec revises target price from 117p to 164p, while leaving its buy recommendation unchanged.ITV: Westhouse Securities shifts target price from 141p to 144p and downgrades from buy to add. Panmure Gordon raises target price from 145p to 180p maintaining a buy recommendation.John Wood Group: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 870p to 930p and maintains a buy recommendation.Legal & General Group: Bank of America takes target price from 155p to 172p reiterating a neutral rating.Melrose: JP Morgan increases target price from 279p to 292p keeping an overweight rating. UBS shifts target price from 260p to 275p, while downgrading from buy to neutral.Meggitt: Investec takes target price from 480p to 520p and maintains a buy recommendation.Millennium & Copthorne Hotels: Jefferies moves target price from 475p to 510p, while retaining a hold recommendation.Moneysupermarket.com: Citigroup takes target price from 190p to 240p and maintains a buy recommendation.Nichols: Canaccord Genuity raises target price from 820p to 1000p and upgrades to buy. Panmure Gordon increases target price from 830p to 900p, while reiterating its hold recommendation.Novae Group: Canaccord Genuity ups target price from 500p to 515p and leaves its buy recommendation unchanged.Pennon Group: Credit Suisse shifts target price from 660p to 670p, while staying with its neutral rating.Patrofac: Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 1950p to 1825p and keeps a buy recommendation.Petropavlovsk: Nomura cuts target price from 760p to 240p downgrading from buy to reduce.Polymetal International: Nomura reduces target price from 1530p to 900p and downgrades from buy to neutral.Randgold Resources: Nomura cuts target price from 7075p to 4650p maintaining a reduces rating.Reckitt Benckiser: Credit Suisse moves target price from 4250p to 4900p and reiterates a neutral rating.Reed Elsevier: JP Morgan reduces target price from 795p to 685p, while leaving its overweight rating unchanged.Rotork: Jefferies ups target price from 2600p to 3005p maintaining a hold recommendation.SAB Miller: Credit Suisse revises target price from 3300p to 4000p, while retaining an outperform rating.Schroders: Canaccord Genuity raises target price to 1450p, while maintaining a sell recommendation.SDL: Panmure Gordon increases target price from 524p to 536p leaving its hold recommendation unaltered.Segro: Goldman Sachs upgrades to buy with a target price of 285p.Senior: Investec ups target price from 220p to 250p and upgrades from hold to add.Serco Group: Jefferies raises target price from 655p to 750p and keeps a buy recommendation. Westhouse Securities downgrades to neutral with a target price of 630p.Severn Trent: Credit Suisse increases target price from 1460p to 1530p and reiterates a neutral rating.Spirax-Sarco Engineering: Investec places both its target price (prev.: 2315p) and its hold recommendation under review.Standart Life: Panmure Gordon revises target price from 375p to 420p, while staying with its buy recommendation.Travis Perkins: Credit Suisse moves target price from 1050p to 1190p leaving its neutral rating unchanged.TUI Travel: Credit Suisse ups target price from 210p to 322p retaining a neutral rating.Tullett Prebon: Espirito Santo raises target price from 326p to 364p and keeps a buy recommendation.United Utilities: Credit Suisse increases target price from 610p to 660p and maintains an underperform rating.