Tuesday broker round-up UPDATE
6th Aug 2013 07:13
Alent: Credit Suisse lowers target price from 430p to 420p keeping an outperform rating. UBS ups target price from 350p to 365p and maintains a neutral rating. Anglo American: Jefferies cuts target price from 1700p to 1650p and maintains a hold recommendation. Aquarius Platinum: RBC Capital shifts
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14th May 2013 08:04
Babcock International: Jefferies increases target price from 1080p to 1250p and maintains a buy recommendation. Barratt Developments: Bank of America takes target price from 265p to 325p, while downgrading to neutral. Belgravium Technologies: WH Ireland places both its target price and its neutral
Read moreSpectris director buys 3,000 shares
25th Apr 2013 16:23
Martha Wyrsch, a Non-Executive Director of Spectris, the FTSE 250 instrumentation and controls company, has purchased her first set of shares in the company. Wyrsch, who took up the role in June last year, acquired 3,000 shares at 2,029.00p each for a total value of £60,870. The transaction was m
Read moreThursday broker round-up UPDATE
21st Feb 2013 08:02
Aberdeen Asset Management: Citigroup takes target price from 400p to 430p and stays with its neutral rating. Admiral Group: JP Morgan starts with a target price of 1246p and a neutral rating. Anglo American: Jefferies increases target price from 2050p to 2450p and upgrades from hold to buy. Aviva
Read moreGreene King CEO sells a chunk of share awards
11th Dec 2012 15:57
Rooney Anand, the Chief Executive of pubs group Greene King, pocketed nearly half a million pounds yesterday by selling off a portion of the shares he was awarded under the company's long-term incentive awards (LTIP) a few years back. Under the LTIP awards that were granted to a number of senior ex
Read moreBHP Billiton Baroness stocks up
23rd Feb 2012 14:57
Baroness Shriti Vadera, a Non-Executive Director of BHP Billiton, the FTSE 100 multi-metal mining giant, has dug up 4,000 shares to add to her existing pile of 5,000. Ugandan-born Vadera, who joined the firm in her first UK non-executive role on 2010, bought the shares at 2,079.00p each for a tota
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Flying Brands, President Petroleum, Densitron...
10th Mar 2011 14:48
Retailer Flying Brands blamed winter weather, a drop in profits at the garden business and bigger losses at the gifts unit for a plunge in profit during 2010. The garden division saw profits fall to £1.34m from £1.81m, while the gifts business lost £0.81m compared with £0.21m a year ago. Winter wea
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Henderson Smaller Cos, Forte Energy, Vane Minerals...
19th Jan 2011 11:01
Small cap-focused trust Henderson Smaller Companies achieved a total return of 22.1% for the half-year to 30 November, putting the benchmark index - up 12.7% - in the shade. The trust, which increased total pre-tax profit from £37.9m to £42.6m, said it expects the markets to remain "choppy", but t
Read moreJarvis Securities enjoys market volatility
29th Jul 2010 14:20
Financial administration services provider Jarvis Securities cheered the increased volatility in stock markets in the first half of the year as it contributed to an improved performance. Average daily trade volumes were up 62% on the first half of last year while client numbers at the end of June s
Read moreJarvis Securities 1H Pretax Profit GBP0.8M On Revenue GBP2.5M
29th Jul 2010 07:36
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Jarvis Securities PLC (JIM.LN), an investment services company, said Thursday that for the six months ended June 30, it made a pretax profit of GBP0.8 million on revenue of GBP2.5 million. MAIN FACTS: -Revenue GBP2.5 million (2009: GBP2.3 million) -Pretax profit GBP0.
Read moreLondon afternoon: US retail sales data spooks equities
11th Jun 2010 14:40
Footsie's morning gains evaporated over the lunchtime session after much worse than expected US sales figures were released. US retail sales had been expecting to rise 0.3% in May after climbing 0.4% in April but instead of rising they took a step back for the first time since September, falling 1
Read moreJarvis seals mobile shares dealing contract
11th Jun 2010 14:21
Jarvis Securities is at its highest in over three months after the retail stockbroker did a deal to provide a branded execution-only share dealing services for mobile media firm Worldlink Group. Tunbridge Wells-based Jarvis says the deal with Frankfurt-listed Worldlink offers it "an enormous opport
Read moreJarvis Securities Signs Commercial Pact With Worldlink Group
11th Jun 2010 10:22
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Jarvis Securities PLC (JIM.LN) said Friday a commercial agreement has been signed with Worldlink Group PLC (WLO.XE), a company involved in the interactive mobile media industry, for the provision of branded execution-only share dealing services. MAIN FACTS: -Worldlink is
Read moreJarvis's growth surge continues
19th Apr 2010 16:26
Shares in Jarvis Securities shot up on Monday after the stockbroking firm said that the significant growth seen in its retail stockbroking business last year continued in the first quarter of 2010. Trade volumes were up 71% year on year while active client numbers at the end of March 2010 stood 44%
Read moreMcGay reduces holding in Mongolian explorer
1st Mar 2010 16:21
Chief executive Douglas McGay's shareholding in Mongolian oil explorer Petro Matad has reduced by 1.8m shares. McGay has an interest in Investec Sino Corporation which sold 800,000 Petro Matad shares for 30p each, thereby raising £240,000. He has transferred his interest in Titoni Corporation, whi
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