Wednesday broker round-up
12th Oct 2016 14:40
(ShareCast News) - Shire: Goldman Sachs keeps at buy with a target price of 6300p. Page Group: HSBC reiterates hold, 385p target. McCarthy & Stone: UBS keeps at sell with a 150p target. Arrow Global: Macquarie reiterates outperform with a 335p target. Electrocomponents: Citigroup keeps at neutral
Read moreFTSE 100 movers: ITV, Legal&General lead declines
3rd Oct 2016 17:15
(ShareCast News) - ITV shares were at the bottom of the pile after analysts at Barclays lowered their target price on the stock from 200.0 to 190.0p. Fashion retailers were also weak, tracking the 1.04% drop in the pound against the US dollar after the Prime Minister committed herself at the weekend
Read moreDirector dealing: ITV's Crozier and finance chief take profits
12th Sep 2016 12:37
(ShareCast News) - ITV's chief executive and finance director have sold around £2m of shares in the broadcaster. CEO Adam Crozier sold 500,000 shares at a price of 200p to gross a cool £1m, while numbers man Ian Griffiths did not get as quite as good a deal via his broker, falling £3,500 short of h
Read moreThursday broker round-up
8th Sep 2016 14:03
(ShareCast News) - Tesco: JP Morgan reiterates underweight with a target price of 135p. G4S: Jefferies maintains underperform with a 160p target. Severn Trent: UBS keeps at neutral with a 2310p target. ITV: JP Morgan reiterates overweight with a 233p target. Babcock: Goldman Sachs keeps at buy wi
Read moreEntertainmentOne plunges as ITV switches off
25th Aug 2016 11:00
(ShareCast News) - ITV has withdrawn its proposed acquisition of Entertainment One, refusing to up its offer for the Peppa Pig owner after its initial bid was rejected, potentially leaving the door open for rumoured private equity bidder KKR. "ITV continues to believe in the strategic logic and p
Read moreEntertainmentOne plunges as ITV switches channels
25th Aug 2016 11:00
(ShareCast News) - ITV has withdrawn its proposed acquisition of Entertainment One, refusing to up its offer for the film and TV distributor after its "ITV continues to believe in the strategic logic and potential benefits of acquiring eOne but has a clear view of the value of the business, reco
Read moreMonday newspaper round-up: Brexit chaos, Nigeria oil, house prices, ITV-ETO
22nd Aug 2016 07:02
(ShareCast News) - Leaving the EU may not not happen anytime soon given that civil servants charged with the task don't yet have an office and hold meetings in Starbucks. Some estimates suggest "full Brexit" may take 10 years and involve up to 10,000 people, not only in the new and other so-called "
Read moreEntertainment One surges on improved ITV bid hopes
15th Aug 2016 08:29
(ShareCast News) - Shares in Entertainment One were surging on Monday morning on reports that ITV might improve its bid for the Canadian TV and film distributor. ITV was understood to be working on lifting its previous bid for eOne, which is the majority owner of the maker of the enormously popular
Read moreKKR eyeing possible bid for Entertainment One, ITV ponders higher offer
14th Aug 2016 20:48
(ShareCast News) - Entertainment One had caught the eye of US private equity outfit KKR, which is considering a bid, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter. For its part, The Mail on Sunday reported that ITV might be willing to pay up to 280p a share or almost £1.2bn for Entertain
Read moreSunday newspaper round-up: Brexit in 2019, bank regulation, ITV, William Hill
14th Aug 2016 17:49
(ShareCast News) - Britain could remain in the EU until late 2019, almost a year later than predicted, ministers have privately warned senior figures in the City of London. Theresa May has been expected to enact article 50 in January, setting in train the formal two years of negotiations before Brex
Read moreITV hikes dividend as it warns ad revenues likely to slow in third quarter
27th Jul 2016 07:12
(ShareCast News) - ITV's revenue growth slowed in the latter part of the first half of the year and, as the broadcaster cautioned that television advertising is likely to be down in the third quarter, it hiked the interim dividend 26% to 2.4p to keep investor's glued. Total revenues grew 12% to £1.7
Read moreBroker tips: Vodafone, ITV, Rathbone Brothers
12th Jul 2016 13:24
(ShareCast News) - Vodafone was under the cosh on Tuesday after Citi downgraded the stock to 'neutral' from 'buy' but raised the target price to 245p from 240p. Citi said it does not expect a "significant positive catalyst" for another two quarters following the company's full year results in May, a
Read moreUBS upgrades ITV after 18% share price drop
12th Jul 2016 08:32
(ShareCast News) - UBS upgraded broadcaster ITV to 'neutral' from 'sell' following an 18% share price fall, despite macroeconomic uncertainty and operational headwinds, noting that fundamental downside was limited. The bank said its economists have cut their 2016 UK GDP growth forecast to 1.3% and t
Read moreWednesday newspaper round-up: Sterling, ITV, BT, Ofcom, Network Rail
6th Jul 2016 07:19
(ShareCast News) - The pound plumbed new depths against the dollar and investors rushed for the perceived havens of gold and government bonds as financial turmoil intensified in the wake of the UK's Brexit vote, with sterling hitting $1.2798 in early Asian trading on Wednesday - its lowest in more t
Read moreBroker tips: ITV, Randgold Resources, Fresnillo, UK banks
27th Jun 2016 17:00
(ShareCast News) - Nothing had changed with respect to ITV's fundamentals following Brexit despite the approximately 20% share price drop on 24 July, analysts at Liberum said, as they stood by their 'buy' recommendation and 375p target on the stock and singled it out as a 'top-pick'. That was true e
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