Wednesday broker round-up UPDATE

1st Oct 2014 09:56

African Minerals: Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 150p to 20p downgrading to hold.Avingtrans: FinnCap upgrades from hold to buy with a target price of 155p.Balfour Beatty: JP Morgan lowers target price from 220p to 200p, while upgrading to neutral.Blinkx: Numis places its buy recommendation under review.Cohort: Investec moves target price from 300p to 310p and maintains a buy recommendation.Crest Nicholson: Deutsche Bank initiates with a target price of 367p and a hold recommendation.Daily Mail and General Trust: Numis reduces target price from 1180p to 1075p and stays with its buy recommendation.Findel: Cantor Fitzgerald cuts target price from 400p to 350p reiterating its sell recommendation.First Quantum Minerals: Citi ups target price from 1200p to 1260p upgrading to neutral.ITE Group: N+1 Singer places both its target price (prev.: 233p) and its hold recommendation under review. Investec cuts target price from 255p to 220p retaining its buy recommendation. Numis reduces target price from 380p to 335p and reiterates a buy recommendation. Canaccord Genuity cuts target price from 215p to 186p and keeps a hold recommendation.London Stock Exchange: RBC Capital cuts target price from 2200p to 2150p and reiterates an outperform rating.Randgold Resources: Numis upgrades to buy with a target price of 5800p.Royal Bank of Scotland: Citi ups target price from 330p to 350p, but still recommends selling. Numis shifts target price from 368p to 370p keeping a hold recommendation.RPS Group: N+1 Singer cuts target price from 375p to 320p and maintains a buy recommendation.Shanks Group: Barclays lowers target price from 99p to 85p retaining an equal-weight rating.Sports Direct: Numis upgrades to buy with a target price of 850p.Ssp Group: JP Morgan initiates with a target price of 300p and an overweight rating.Zoopla: Exane initiates with a target price of 240p and a neutral rating.UBM: Investec places its target price (prev.: 725p) under review, while keeping a buy recommendation.UDG Healthcare: N+1 Singer reduces target price from 410p to 353p downgrading from buy to hold.Victoria: Cantor Fitzgerald raises target price from 290p to 400p and keeps a buy recommendation.Walker Greenbank: WH Ireland ups target price from 210p to 240p reiterating a buy recommendation.