Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

23rd May 2013 08:35

Amara Mining: Numis lowers target price from 80p to 70p, while keeping a buy recommendation.ARM Holdings: Exane downgrades to neutral with a target price of 1000p.Aveva: Panmure Gordon raises target price from 1900p to 2076p and retains a hold recommendation. Canaccord Genuity increases target price from 2000p to 2300p, while staying with its hold recommendation.Avingtrans: Numis initiates with a target price of 145p and a buy recommendation.Booker: Panmure Gordon downgrades from buy to hold with a target price of 130p. Investec shifts target price from134p to 140p maintaining a buy recommendation.Britvic: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 460p to 520p and reiterates a hold recommendation.BTG: Panmure Gordon takes target price from 420p to 450p and upgrades from hold to buy.Cable & Wireless Communications: Deutsche Bank shifts target price from 53p to 57p and retains a buy rating.Capita: Credit Suisse takes target price from 1000p to 1150p retaining an outperform rating.Daily Mail & General Trust: Numis moves target price from 895p to 910p and stays with its buy recommendation. Investec places its target price (prev.: 780p) under review, while reiterating its buy recommendation. Canaccord Genuity takes target price from 670p to 721p and maintains a hold recommendation.Dairy Crest: Panmure Gordon increases target price from 430p to 500p and keeps a hold recommendation. Investec places its target price (prev.: 466p) under review, while retaining an add rating.Darty: Morgan Stanley shifts target price from 35p to 42p and keeps an underweight rating.Electrocompontents: Canaccord Genuity moves target price from 265p to 300p reiterating a buy recommendation.First Group: Espirito Santo upgrades to neutral with a target price of 170p. Deutsche Bank reduces target price from 175p to 154p, maintaining a hold recommendation.Great Portland Estates: Deutsche Bank lowers target price from 660p to 650p, while leaving its buy recommendation unchanged.Halfords Group: Investec moves target price from 385p to 375p, while leaving its buy recommendation unchanged.Imperial Tabacco: Nomura shifts target price from 2419p to 2416p keeping a reduce rating.Intermediate Capital Group: Deutsche Bank raises target price from 322p to 416p retaining a hold recommendation.Kingfisher: Nomura moves target price from 270p to 280p, while downgrading from neutral to reduce.Mothercare: Numis increases target price from 350p to 405p, while downgrading to add.New River Retail: Investec ups target price from 235p to 250p and retains a buy recommendation.Next Fifteen Communications: Westhouse Securities upgrades from add to buy with a target price of 114p.PayPoint: Canaccord Genuity raises target price from 881p to 999p upgrading to buy.Petropavlovsk: Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 510p to 340p, while maintaining a buy recommendation.QinetiQ: Investec places its target price (prev.: 195p) under review and keeps a hold recommendation.Renew Holdings: WH Ireland shifts target price from 130p to 137.50p and retains a buy recommendation.Shaftesbury: Exane ups target price from 530p to 540p and stays with its underperform rating.St James's Place: Panmure Gordon raises target price from 600p to 725p and leaves its buy recommendation unaltered.Tate & Lyle: Deutsche Bank increases target price from 900p to 1050p and reiterates a buy recommendation.Thomas Cook Group: Nomura raises target price from 105p to 150p and upgrades from reduce to neutral.Youngs: Panmure Gordon ups target price from 804p to 955p maintaining a buy recommendation.