Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

19th Sep 2013 08:20

ASOS: Canaccord Genuity increases target price from 3400p to 6200p and upgrades to buy.Associated British Foods: Jefferies raises target price from 1650p to 1750p and retains a hold recommendation.Barclays: Alphavalue upgrades from add to buy with a target price of 344.20p.BHP Billiton: Nomura reduces target price from 2400p to 2200p, while its buy recommendation remains unchanged.Booker Group: Investec shifts target price from 141p to 146p and reiterates a buy recommendation.Botswana Diamonds: Westhouse Securities shifts target price from 5.50p to 7p and upgrades to buy.British Sky Broadcasting Group: Barclays lowers target price from 915p to 914.40p and retains an equal-weight rating.Compass Group: Credit Suisse cuts target price from 1070p to 985p, while its outperform rating is kept.Daily Mail & General Trust: Barclays shifts target price from 790p to 785p and keeps its underweight rating.Dixons Retail: Alphavalue lowers target price from 43.60p to 43.50p, while upgrading from sell to reduce.Fenner: Credit Suisse revises target price from 390p to 490p and upgrades from neutral to outperform.First Derivatives: Panmure Gordon takes target price from 750p to 900p reiterating a buy recommendation.Glencore Xstrata: Exane raises target price from 345p to 410p and upgrades from neutral to outperform.Informa: Barclays raises target price from 565p to 615p and maintains an overweight rating.InterContinental Hotels Group: Societe Generale initiates with a target price of 2200p and a buy recommendation.ITV: Barclays moves target price from 160p to 175p keeping its equal-weight rating.Johnson Matthey: UBS takes target price from 2800p to 2910p, while downgrading from buy to neutral.John Wood Group: Goldman Sachs upgrades to buy with a target price of 974p.Kofax: Jefferies increases target price from 380p to 450p and keeps a buy recommendation.Legal & General Group: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 189p to 225p maintaining its buy recommendation.Mediterranean Oil & Gas: Liberum Capital shifts target price from 22p to 20p staying with its buy recommendation.Morrison (Wm): Nomura ups target price from 310p to 360p upgrading from neutral to buy.New World Resources: JP Morgan moves target price from 38p to 50p keeping its underweight rating.Next: UBS raises target price from 4880p to 5350p leaving its neutral rating unaltered.Northgate: Numis increases target price from 400p to 466p and keeps an add rating.Pearson: Barclays ups target price from 1330p to 1340p and leaves its equal-weight rating unaltered.Redrow: Deutsche Bank moves target price from 241p to 258p and reiterates a hold recommendation. Citi takes target price from 255p to 265p staying with its buy recommendation.Sainsbury: Nomura cuts target price from 380p to 350p, while maintaining a neutral rating.Sinclair IS Pharma: Investec places its target price (prev.: 37p) under review and downgrades from buy to hold.Smiths Group: Societe Generale ups target price from 1200p to 1235p, but still recommends selling.Tate & Lyle: Numis cuts target price from 900p to 884p, while upgrading to add.Tesco: Nomura reduces target price from 430p to 400p downgrading from buy to neutral.Trinity Exploration & Production: Jefferies lowers target price from 180p to 175p keeping a buy recommendation.Trinity Mirror: Barclays moves target price from 115p to 125p and stays with its equal-weight rating.Whitbread: Societe Generale initiates with a target price of 2900p and a sell recommendation.Wilmington Group: Westhouse Securities ups target price from 210p to 224p and keeps an add rating. Numis moves target price from 231p to 241p retaining a buy recommendation.WPP Group: Barclays increases target price from 1380p to 1425p maintaining an overweight rating.