Friday broker round-up UPDATE
8th Mar 2013 07:42
Advanced Computer Software Group: Canaccord Genuity raises target price from 80p to 108p and reiterates a buy recommendation. Aggreko: Jefferies raises target price from 2000p to 2200p keeping its buy recommendation. Cantor Fitzgerald takes target price from 2020p to 2200p and stays with its buy re
Read moreMonday broker round-up UPDATE
4th Feb 2013 07:17
Antofagasta: Nomura lowers target price from 1400p to 1250p and keeps a neutral rating. Aviva Group: Barclays cuts target price from 317p to 302p leaving its underweight rating unaltered. Beazley: Berenberg starts with a target price of 217p and a buy recommendation. Big Yellow Group: UBS reduces
Read moreWednesday broker round-up - UPDATE
30th Jan 2013 07:03
Alternative Networks: Investec increases target price from 310p to 330p retaining a buy rating. Anglo American: Deutsche Bank takes price target from 2200p to 2260p, while its buy recommendation remains unchanged. Antofagasta: Bank of America reduces target price from 1500p to 1400p and downgrades
Read moreTuesday tips round-up: SThree, Porvair
29th Jan 2013 07:39
Porvair is another of those British industrial companies doing all the right things on the global stage. It makes filters for aviation and energy markets and metals foundries and has increased revenues by an average of 11 per cent a year through the recession. More than half its production is in the
Read moreMonday broker round-up - UPDATE
28th Jan 2013 08:04
Amino Technologies: Northland Capital takes price target from 75p to 80p reiterating a buy recommendation. Anglo American: Deutsche Bank shifts target price from 2230p to 2200p and retains a buy recommendation. Anite: Panmure Gordon increases target price from 165p to 170p and maintains a buy rati
Read moreBroker snap: UBS cuts targets for SThree
3rd Dec 2012 10:02
UBS has reiterated its 'buy' recommendation for recruitment group SThree, but has reduced its profit forecasts though this is largely a 'catch-up' with consensus estimates. Fourth-quarter revenues rose 2%, the company announced last week, which was better than specialist recruitment peers (in the c
Read moreMonday broker round-up UPDATE
3rd Dec 2012 07:16
ARM Holdings: Exane BNP Paribas upgrades from neutral to buy. Ashtead Group: Bank of America starts with a target price of 460p and a buy recommendation. AstraZaneca: Berenberg raises target price from 3080p to 3100p; hold recommendation kept. Balfour Beatty: Investec reduces target price from 21
Read moreSThree expects in line profits despite increasingly difficult backdrop -UPDATE
30th Nov 2012 07:24
International specialist staffing business SThree on Wednesday morning emphasised the company's growing geographical diversification and that its succession plan for top management is running ahead of schedule. However, the group's Chief Executive, Russell Clements, commented: "The Group has traded
Read moreFriday preview: SThree to update on fourth-quarter trading
29th Nov 2012 16:17
Looking at the calendar, Friday is looking pretty quiet on the corporate front with a few small-cap stocks scheduled for trading statements and results. Among these is recruitment agency SThree which is due to give an update on trading in the fourth quarter of its financial year (ended November 25
Read moreThursday broker round-up UPDATE
22nd Nov 2012 07:19
Alternative Networks: Westhouse Securities downgrades from buy to add, target price of 280p kept. Babcock International: UBS downgrades from buy to neutral. Barr (AG): N+1 Singer raises target price from 402p to 525p and upgrades to buy. Belvoir Lettings: Seymour Pierce raises target price from 9
Read moreHargreaves Lansdown Marketing Director reduces stake by 200,000 shares
26th Oct 2012 16:27
In a deal announced after Thursday's close, Ian Hunter, the Investment Marketing Director of financial services provider Hargreaves Lansdown, has pocketed £1.51m after reducing his stake in the company by 200,000 shares. Hunter, who has held a position of the board since 2009, traded in the shares
Read moreFriday broker round-up
7th Sep 2012 09:03
ASOS: Jefferies keeps buy rating and 2,199p target. AstraZeneca: Morgan Stanley upgrades to equal weight. Aviva: AlphaValue downgrades to add, target lifted from 385p to 389p. Barclays: Deutsche Bank upgrades to buy. Dixons: Nomura keeps neutral rating and 20p target. Legal & General: Credit Su
Read moreContract placements drive SThree's growth
7th Sep 2012 07:56
It is tough out there for recruitment agencies but SThree is still making headway around the world, except in the UK and Ireland, where profits took a dip. The group said that in its third quarter (Q3), which runs from May 27th to August 26th, group gross profit was up 6% on a constant currency (CC
Read moreFriday preview: Industrial production to rebound
6th Sep 2012 17:01
Compared to some of its peers in the recruitment sector, SThree had a commendable first half in tough market conditions, but those conditions have shown no signs of improvement in the last two months, so Friday's interim management statement may be one of no more than quiet satisfaction. France and
Read moreWednesday broker round-up
25th Jul 2012 10:13
3i Group: Investec initiates with buy rating and 236p target. APR Energy: UBS cuts target from 690p to 590p, sell rating unchanged. British American Tobacco: Jefferies keeps buy rating and 3,730p target. British Land: Jefferies keeps buy rating and 552p target. BT Group: Jefferies maintains buy
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