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Share Price: 298.00
Bid: 290.00
Ask: 306.00
Change: 0.00 (0.00%)
Spread: 16.00 (5.517%)
Open: 302.00
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Low: 298.00
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Wednesday broker round-up UPDATE

Wed, 05th Dec 2012 07:19

Anglo American: Morgan Stanley reduces target price from 2110p to 1802p and keeps an equal weight rating.Brewin Dolphin Holdings: Peel Hunt raises target price from 185p to 230p and maintains a buy rating.British Sky Broadcasting Group: Nomura raises target price from 950p to 975p and reiterates a buy recommendation.Cairn Energy: Societe Generale cuts target price from 290p to 280p, while keeping a hold recommendation.Character Group: Merchant Securities reduces target price from 119p to 82p and downgrades from hold to sell.Consort Medical: Jefferies raises target price from 880p to 930p, while maintaining a buy recommendation. Numis raises target price from 940p to 1000p keeping its buy recommendation. Investec raises target price from 695p to 854p and upgrades to hold.Darty: Alphavalue upgrades to buy; target price of 58p remains unchanged.Experian: Nomura raises target price from 1035p to 1215p; buy recommendation unchanged.Greene King: HSBC raises target price from 525p to 620p and keeps a neutral rating. HB Markets upgrades to buy.Halfords: Bank of America downgrades from buy to neutral.Hargreaves Services: Jefferies reduces target price from 1085p to 1035p and reiterates its buy recommendation. Westhouse Securities reduces target price from 927p to 829p, while maintaining an add rating. WH Ireland downgrades from buy to hold.HSBC Holdings: Investec raises target price from 630p to 650p and reiterates a buy recommendation.Home Retail Group: Bank of America upgrades from neutral to buy.Informa: Nomura raises target price from 530p to 545p and maintains its buy recommendation. Barclays moves target price from 480p to 490p, while keeping an overweight rating.InterContinental Hotels Group: JP Morgan raises target price from 1635p to 1650p and keeps a neutral rating.ITE Group: Investec raises target price from 247p to 255p and maintains a buy recommendation.Marston's: HSBC raises target price from 125p to 140p and maintains an overweight rating.Ophir Energy: Societe General raises target price from 580p to 600p and upgrades to buy.Pearson: Nomura moves target price from 1250p to 1270p; reduce rating unchanged.Premier Oil: Societe Generale reduces target price from 500p to 460p reiterating a buy recommendation.Publishing Technology: Westhouse Securities raises target price from 120p to 150p and maintains a buy recommendation.Reed Elsevier: Nomura raises target price from 700p to 750p and keeps its buy recommendation.Rockhopper Exploration: Societe Generale cuts target price from 210p to 200p and upgrades to buy.Sage Group: Merchant Securities moves target price from 280p to 290p keeping a hold recommendation. Panmure Gordon raises target price from 288p to 297p and reiterates a sell recommendation.Serco Group: Westhouse Securities upgrades to add, while keeping the target price at 630p.Sportingbet: Panmure Gordon reduces target price from 61p to 56p maintaining a hold rating.Thomas Cook Group: Credit Suisse initiates with a target price of 36p and an outperform recommendation.TUI Travel: Exane BNP raises target price from 260p to 300p, while maintaining a neutral rating. HB Markes upgrades to buy.Tullow Oil: Morgan Stanley moves target price from 1785p to 1770p, while keeping an overweight rating. Deutsche Bank reduces target price from 1200p to 1180p and reiterates a hold recommendation. Barclays moves target price from 1920p to 1895p; overweight rating kept. Credit Suisse cuts target price from 1650p to 1550p keeping an outperform rating. Societe Generale reduces target price from 1500p to 1450p and maintains a hold recommendation. Canaccord Genuity cuts target price from 1350p to 1150p and downgrades to sell. Exane BNP reduces target price from 1500p to 1450p reiterating an outperform rating.UBM: Nomura raises target price from 800p to 900p, while reiterating a buy rating.Wolseley: Barclays raises target price from 2850p to 3150p, while keeping an overweight rating. Credit Suisse raises target price from 3000p to 3200; outperform rating unchanged. JP Morgan raises target price from 3030p to 3150p and reiterates an overweight rating.WPP Group: Nomura raises target price from 980p to 1030p and keeps its buy recommendation.
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15 Jul 2010 07:58

Character Group To Launch Michael Jackson Collectible Figures

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Character Group PLC (CCT.LN), which designs, develops and distributes toys, games and giftware internationally, said Thursday its principal trading subsidiary Character Options Ltd plans to distribute a collection of official Michael Jackson dolls, adding that it expects to see s

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14 Jun 2010 07:57

Character Group Buys Back 393,683 Shares At 145.2 Pence

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Character Group PLC (CCT.LN) said Monday it bought back for cancellation 393,683 ordinary shares at a price of 145.2 pence per share. MAIN FACTS: -This represents 1.48% of the current issued share capital of the Company shares held in treasury. -Shares closed at 141 p

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9 Jun 2010 08:21

Character Group Buys Back 198,000 Shares

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Character Group PLC (CCT.LN) said Wednesday it bought back for cancellation 198,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 142.67 pence per share. MAIN FACTS: -At 0719 GMT shares down 0.5 pence, or 0.3%, at 149.5 pence. -By Elliott Ball, Dow Jones Newswires; 44-20-7842-93

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18 May 2010 16:51

RPS boss cashes in

Chief executive Dr Alan Hearne has raised nearly £1m by selling shares in environmental consultancy RPS. Dr Hearne has sold 470,000 shares at an average price of 209.588p each. That leaves him with 15,130 RPS shares and £985,000 in cash. In March, Dr Hearne raised £222,434 from a share disposal

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27 Apr 2010 10:03

Character returns to profit

Shares in Character Group are in demand a better than expected Christmas helped the toy maker to a return to profits in the year to February 28. Pre-tax profits totalled £3.73m, compared with a loss of £3.47m the previous year, as revenues rose to £43.1m from £37.8m. The company also started paying

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28 Jan 2010 16:39

New Tate boss buys

Javed Ahmed, the new chief executive of sweeteners supplier Tate & Lyle, has bought 100,000 shares after the announcement of the company's interim management statement. Ahmed paid 390p each for the shares - a total investment of £390,000. Ahmed's appointment as chief executive was announced last

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26 Jan 2010 16:25

London close: Footsie snaps 4-day losing streak

Top stocks staged a recovery late afternoon as Wall Street reacted well to US consumer confidence at a 16-month high. Standard Chartered was a bright spot after Nomura said the recent share price fall represents a buying opportunity. The Japanese broker upgraded the Far East focused bank to 'buy'

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26 Jan 2010 14:19

London afternoon: Losses pared

Leading shares cut back their losses over the lunch time session but resource stocks remain under the cosh on fears that the Chinese authorities will step up its campaign to cool down its overheating economy and lift interest rates. Fresnillo, Xstrata and Kazakhmys lead the mining sector lower, wh

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26 Jan 2010 12:03

London midday: GDP figures no comfort

News that the UK economy limped out of recession in the fourth quarter has failed to cheer equities, which remain more concerned about China and the possibility its government will slam the economic brakes on. The UK economy grew just 0.1% in the fourth quarter, far less than expected. Economists h

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26 Jan 2010 08:49

London open: Blue chips struggle

Footsie has fallen again in early dealing with miners again under pressure on worries about overheating in China and the possibility its government will slam the economic brakes on. The big mining names are all lower this morning. Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Lonmin are the worst affected, but fal

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26 Jan 2010 07:42

Character to launch Michael Jackson dolls

In one of the year’s more off the wall announcements toy maker Character Group has said it is to launch a collection of official Michael Jackson dolls later this year. Two figures based on the singer, who died in controversial circumstances in June 2009, will be launched in August with another two

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21 Jan 2010 06:01

Thursday tips round-up: Wetherspoon, Soco, Character

The economic backdrop remains tough but Wetherspoon's value-for-money offer and unmatched retail skills will ensure that it is among the winners. At 463p, or 13 times earnings, hold on for recovery, advises the Times. The Independent agrees and says the shares are too pricey to recommend buying more

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20 Jan 2010 07:54

It's all Go-Go at Character

Changes to the product line at Character Group have paid off for the toys and giftware distributor, and the board is looking forward to a ‘significant turnaround in profit before tax’ at the half year stage. Sales in the four months since the end of August 2009 have been 1.2% higher than the compa

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7 Dec 2009 15:12

Character says popular Go Go Hamster is safe

Character Group, the UK distributor of Go Go Pets, has insisted that this year's must have Christmas toy is safe. The firm behind the £9.99 battery-powered pets said the toys fully comply with the 'extremely stringent safety and quality standards and regulations' imposed by the European authorities

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1 Dec 2009 08:10

Character returns to profit in second half

Toy maker Character Group said it returned to profitability in the second half of the year and re-introduced its dividend payment. Overall, the group still made a full-year pre-tax loss of £2.17m compared to a profit of £5.14m for the previous year. Sales in the year amounted to £68.6m, down 16.6%

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