Wednesday broker round-up UPDATE

11th Sep 2013 08:14

Advanced Medical Solutions: Panmure Gordon moves target price from 90p to 102p and reiterates a buy recommendation.Amara Mining: Numis shifts target price from 40p to 45p retaining its buy recommendation.Anite: Numis cuts target price from 155p to 128p and downgrades to hold.Ashmore Group: Bank of America ups target price from 405p to 430p and reiterates its buy recommendation. JP Morgan cuts target price from 377p to 368p, while maintaining a neutral rating. Numis reduces target price from 405p to 385p downgrading to hold.Barratt Developments: Panmure Gordon shifts target price from 320p to 330p and leaves its hold recommendation unaltered.BG Group: Liberum Capital lowers target price from 1275p to 1260p and keeps a hold recommendation. JP Morgan reduces target price from 1600p to 1550p, while staying with its overweight rating. Credit Suisse downgrades from neutral to underperform, while its target price of 1190p remains unchanged.British Sky Broadcasting: JP Morgan cuts target price from 955p to 930p and downgrades to neutral.Fenner: Credit Suisse ups target price from 340p to 390p, while keeping a neutral rating.Glencore Xstrata: Deutsche Bank shifts target price from 375p to 379p maintaining a buy recommendation. Jefferies takes target price from 375p to 425p and retains a buy recommendation. JP Morgan lowers target price from 390p to 380p and keeps its overweight rating.Halma: Credit Suisse raises target price from 560p to 620p and reiterates an outperform rating.Informa: JP Morgan increases target price from 555p to 615p upgrading to overweight.International Personal Finance: Numis downgrades to hold with a target price of 690p.ITV: JP Morgan moves target price from 161p to 181p and leaves its neutral rating unaltered.Marks & Spencer: N+1 Singer raises target price from 462p to 650p upgrading from hold to buy.Mecom Group: JP Morgan reduces target price from 66p to 46p and leaves its neutral rating unaltered.Moneysupermarket: JP Morgan moves target price from 202p to 192p reiterating a neutral rating.Pearson: Nomura cuts target price from 1195p to 110p and retains a reduce rating.Perform Group: JP Morgan takes target price from 451p to 510p, while its neutral rating remains unchanged.Premier Foods: Panmure Gordon raises target price from 65p to 130p, but still recommends selling.Spectris: Credit Suisse revises target price from 2350p to 2520p and keeps an outperform rating.Sports Direct International: Numis upgrades to add with a target price of 800p.Thorntons: Panmure Gordon ups target price from 100p to 116p maintaining a buy recommendation.UBM: JP Morgan moves target price from 775p to 830p and upgrades to overweight.Vedanta Resources: Alphavalue ups target price from 1086.30p to 1126.20p upgrading from sell to reduce.Whitbread: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 3325p to 3350p and stays with its buy recommendation. JP Morgan reduces target price from 3400p to 3250p and downgrades to neutral.WPP Group: JP Morgan increases target price from 1407p to 1520p and keeps an overweight rating.