Travis Perkins Finance Director reduces family stake
11th Sep 2012 16:27
The wife of Paul Hampden Smith, the Finance Director at Travis Perkins, has sold 11,000 shares in the builders' merchant in two tranches. The first round of shares, totalling 6,000, were sold for 1,096.77p, while the remaining 5,000 were traded in for 1,098.26p. Sarah Hampden Smith pocketed a t
Read moreWednesday broker round-up -UPDATE
29th Aug 2012 09:38
888 Holdings: Investec upgrades from sell to buy target hiked from 18p to 95p. Advanced Medical Solutions: Singer Capital Markets upgrades to buy, target lifted from 80p to 82p. AstraZeneca: AlphaValue downgrades to reduce. Bunzl: Jefferies raises target from 835p to 860p, underperform rating kep
Read moreTuesday broker round-up
21st Aug 2012 08:18
African Barrick Gold: Canaccord Genuity cuts target from 440p to 380p, hold rating kept. Amlin: Morgan Stanley keeps overweight and 414p target. Chemring: Citigroup downgrades to neutral, target lifted from 360p to 430p. CRH: Bernstein cuts target from 1,264p to 1,179p. Electrocomponents: Jeffer
Read moreFriday broker round-up
17th Aug 2012 09:22
Afren: Goldman Sachs downgrades to neutral. Borders & Southern Petroleum: Goldman Sachs downgrades to neutral. Coastal Energy: Goldman Sachs upgrades to buy. CRH: Credit Suisse downgrades to underperform. ENRC: Nomura cuts target from 500p to 400p, reduce rating kept. Faroe Petroleum: Goldman S
Read moreCEO at Travis Perkins sells more than 50,000 shares
15th Aug 2012 16:06
Geoff Cooper, the Chief Executive of builders' merchant Travis Perkins, has sold a chunk of shares just a week after the firm's Finance Director ditched a similar sized stake. CEO Cooper, who joined the company in February 2005 and was appointed Chief Executive a month later, sold 51,776 at 1,091
Read moreTravis Perkins Finance Director makes sale
8th Aug 2012 16:33
Paul Hampden Smith, the Finance Director at building merchant Travis Perkins, has sold 51,994 shares at 1,061.00p in the name of his wife, Sarah. The sale, which earned the director a tidy £551,656 and leaves him with a beneficial interest of 264,698 shares, came less than a fortnight after the fi
Read moreMonday broker round-up
30th Jul 2012 09:03
Anglo American: Jefferies cuts target from 2,950p to 2,200p, buy rating kept. Barclays: Nomura reiterates reduce rating and 210p target. Fidessa: Jefferies keeps hold recommendation and 1,510p target; Merchant Securities maintains buy rating; Investec puts target under review, sell rating kept. G
Read moreTravis Perkins profit up by a quarter
26th Jul 2012 08:07
Builders' merchant Travis Perkins said pre-tax profit rose 25 per cent in the last six months despite construction being hampered by the wettest 3 months since records began. Reported pre-tax profit after exceptional items rose to £162m for the six months ended June 30 compared to £129.2m the same
Read moreMonday broker round-up
23rd Jul 2012 09:31
Abcam: Numis downgrades to add. Aberdeen Asset Management: Peel Hunt upgrades to buy. Barclays: Nomura keeps reduce rating and 210p target. Beazley: Nomura ups target from 147p to 165p, neutral rating kept. Hammerson: Jefferies maintains buy rating and 487p target. Home Retail: Numis upgrades t
Read moreFriday broker round-up
6th Jul 2012 09:35
Aviva: SocGen upgrades to hold from sell. Aberdeen: UBS cuts target from 310p to 300p, buy rating unchanged. Associated British Foods: Nomura raises target from 1,375p to 1,400p, buy recommendation unchanged. AstraZeneca: Jefferies downgrades from buy to hold, target left at 2,975p. AVEVA: Beren
Read moreWednesday broker round-up
20th Jun 2012 09:21
Burberry: Nomura maintains buy recommendation and 1,530p target. Chariot Oil & Gas: Merchant Securities keeps buy rating and 232p target. Home Retail: HSBC downgrades to neutral, target cut from 110p to 100p. Imagination Tech: UBS cuts target from 480p to 470p, neutral rating unchanged. Internat
Read moreTuesday tips round-up: Petrofac, Travis Perkins, Rank
15th May 2012 06:58
Petrofac, the oil services firm, gets the once over from Questor in the Telegraph. The order book is strong at 9.6bn dollars, and the strategy is clear - the company provides oil knowhow to country's trying to develop their resources. But the stock has risen recently so Questor thinks best to hold a
Read moreWet April hits Travis Perkins' first quarter
14th May 2012 07:39
Building materials supplier Travis Perkins said it made progress in the first quarter of the year although momentum was hit by a particularly rainy April. Group revenues rose 4.4 per cent in the period from 1 January to 30 April 2012 from a year earlier. Total revenue in General Merchanting gained
Read moreBBA Aviation boss jettisons incentive plan shares
3rd Apr 2012 16:02
Shares in aviation support service group BBA Aviation are a few pence off their 52-week high, so it was not a bad time for Group Chief Executive Simon Pryce to get shot of a pile of shares awarded under the firm's long term incentive and bonus plans. Pryce jettisoned 323,613 shares at 215.55p each
Read moreOphir Energy director makes massive sale
2nd Apr 2012 16:18
Rajan Tandon, a Non-Executive Director of FTSE 250 African energy firm Ophir, has ditched 10m shares in the firm, cashing in on the recent surge in its share price. The director sold the shares for 500p for a total of £50m. The sale comes just days after the company's share price leapt on the bac
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