Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

13th Jun 2013 07:01

African Barrick Gold: Citi moves target price from 175p to 124p and maintains a sell recommendation.ASOS: Nomura raises target price from 2970p to 3400p keeping a neutral rating. Exane increases target price from 4200p to 5000p and retains its outperform rating. Citi ups target price from 4400p to 4800p and reiterates a buy recommendation.Atkins: Investec lowers target price from 910p to 880p and maintains a reduce rating.British American Tabacco: Goldman Sachs reduces target price from 4460p to 4250p, while staying with its buy recommendation.Care Tech: Investec ups target price from 165p to 177p and upgrades from hold to buy.Chemring: UBS moves target price from 380p to 360p, while its buy recommendation is kept.Creston: Liberum Capital shifts target price from 120p to 125p maintaining its buy recommendation.FirstGroup: Nomura cuts target price from 170p to 130p, while upgrading from neutral to buy. Citi lowers target price from 173p to 105p leaving its neutral rating unchanged.Genel Energy: HSBC Holdings takes target price from 830p to 983p, while maintaining a neutral rating.Gulf Keystone Petroleum: HSBC Holdings reduces target price from 268p to 185p, while keeping its overweight rating.Halma: Investec shifts target price from 540p to 550p and stays with its buy recommendation.Hochschild Mining: Citi cuts target price from 194p to 178p reiterating a sell recommendation.Home Retail Group: Investec reduces target price from 173p to 159p, while leaving its buy recommendation unaltered.HSBC Holdings: Investec shifts target price from 735p to 740p upgrading from reduce to buy.Imperial Tabacco: Goldman Sachs lowers target price from 2580p to 2575p and retains a neutral rating.M&C Saatchi: N+1 Singer takes target price from 255p to 272p downgrading to hold.Micro Focus: Sanlam Securities places its target price (prev.: 600p) under review and reiterates a sell recommendation.Norcros: Canaccord Genuity initiates with a target price of 20p and a buy recommendation.Petroceltic International: HSBC Holdings ups target price from 300p to 325p and stays with its overweight rating.Petrofac: Citi cuts target price from 1650p to 1600p, while upgrading from neutral to buy.Petropavlovsk: Citi lowers target price from 132p to 116p keeping a sell recommendation.Polymetal International: Citi takes target price from 577p to 529p and stays with its sell recommendation.Randgold Resources: Citi reduces target price from 4230p to 3926p and leaves its sell recommendation unaltered.Rolls-Royce Group: Espirito Santo downgrades to sell with a target price of 950p.Severn Trent: Barclays downgrades to equal-weight with a target price of 1765p. Citi raises target price from 1520p to 1750p reiterating a neutral rating.Unilever: Exane reduces target price from 3000p to 2800p reiterating a neutral rating.Utilitywise: Westhouse Securities shifts target price from 141p to 148p and maintains a buy recommendation.Wincanton: Investec moves target price from 70p to 75p and keeps a buy recommendation.