Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

31st Jul 2014 09:30

Afren: Oriel places both target price and recommendation under review. Canaccord Genuity places both its target price (prev.: 150p) and its hold recommendation under review. Investec places its target price (prev.: 195p) under review and downgrades from buy to hold.Arbuthnot: Numis ups target price from 1130p to 1150p keeping a hold recommendation.Avocet Mining: Canaccord Genuity lowers target price from 8p to 6p retaining its sell recommendation.Barclays: Deutsche Bank moves target price from 275p to 285p and stays with its buy recommendation.Bodycote: Investec ups target price from 760p to 775p and stays with its buy recommendation.Centamin: Canaccord Genuity moves target price from 68p to 74p, while downgrading from a speculative buy to hold.Centaur Media: Westhouse Securities upgrades from add to buy with a target price of 71p.Chamberlin: FinnCap ups target price from 85p to 100p and upgrades to buy.Compass Group: Credit Suisse moves target price from 1120p to 1130p keeping an outperform rating.Countrywide: Numis upgrades from add to buy with a target price of 690p.Croma Security Solutions Group: WH Ireland moves target price from 40p to 50p maintaining a buy recommendation.Domino's Pizza: Canaccord Genuity ups target price from 640p to 650p and retains an outperform rating.Drax Group: Goldman Sachs lowers target price from 1052p to 1049p and keeps a strong buy recommendation.Elementis: Numis shifts target price from 281p to 287p and stays with its hold recommendation.Investec: Numis downgrades from add to hold with a target price of 512p.ITV: Berenberg shifts target price from 180p to 184p and retains a hold recommendation. Barclays shifts target price from 200p to 205p staying with its equal-weight rating.Jardine Lloyd Thompson: Panmure Gordon cuts target price from 1050p to 1023p, while upgrading from sell to hold.Jupiter Fund Management: RBC Capital lowers target price from 435p to 425p and reiterates its neutral rating.Minera IRL: Canaccord Genuity downgrades from buy to a speculative buy with a target price of 20p. Numis lowers target price from 30p to 20p keeping a buy recommendation.Petropavlosk: Canaccord Genuity lowers target price from 100p to 85p and downgrades from buy to a speculative buy.Pets At Home: Beaufort initiates with a buy recommendation.Polymetal: Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 670p to 540p downgrading from buy to hold.Randgold Resources: Canaccord Genuity raises target price from 4800p to 5100p leaving its hold recommendation unchanged.Rightmove: UBS reduces target price from 3020p to 2980p, while leaving its buy recommendation.Royal Dutch Shell: Investec places its target price (prev.: 2250p) and retains a hold recommendation.Schroders: Canaccord Genuity upgrades from hold to buy with a target price of 2800p.Secure Trust Bank: Numis ups target price from 2541p to 2564p maintaining a hold recommendation.Segro: Deutsche Bank moves target price from 250p to 260p, but still recommends selling.Synergy Health: N+1 Singer ups target price from 1258p to 1283p and maintains a hold recommendation.Travis Perkins: Jefferies raises target price from 1430p to 1500p keeping an underperform rating. Numis upgrades from hold to add with a target price of 1900p.Tullett Prebon: Numis reduces target price to 258p, while upgrading from reduce to hold.Tullow Oil: Deutsche Bank reduces target price from 950p to 885p maintaining a hold recommendation. Credit Suisse cuts target price from 910p to 885p leaving its neutral rating unaltered.Vedanta Resources: Deutsche Bank raises target price from 1185p to 1250p and reiterates a hold recommendation.Victrex: Numis cuts target price from 1897p to 1870p retaining an add rating.WEIR Group: Investec places both its target price (prev.: 2440p) and its sell recommendation under review.