Hill & Smith Share News (HILS)

Monday broker round-up UPDATE

Advanced Computer Software: Panmure Gordon shifts target price from 132p to 139p and keeps a buy recommendation. AGA Rangemanager: Canaccord Genuity initiates with a target price of 300p and a buy recommendation. Avon Rubber: Canaccord Genuity initiates with a target price of 720p and a hold recom

Monday broker round-up UPDATE

Admiral Group: Citi ups target price from 1220p to 1256p and reiterates a neutral rating. Afren: Nomura increases target price from 170p to 210p and stays with its neutral rating. Alternative Networks: Westhouse Securities increases target price from 445p to 540p reiterating its add rating. Amlin

Hill & Smith Net Debt Dips As Trading Improves From First Half

Wednesday broker round-up UPDATE

African Minerals: Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 410p to 330p, while its buy recommendation remains unaltered. Amlin: Goldman Sachs moves target price from 405p to 420p and reiterates a neutral rating. Andor Technology: Investec takes target price from 360p to 410p leaving its buy rec

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-UK small caps trade flat mid-session

UK small caps trade flat, in line with the midcaps , while the blue chips shed 0.2 percent. Hill & Smith Holdings, a supplier of infrastructure products, is among the top FTSE Small Cap fallers with a 5.7 percent decline after the company reported an 11 percent drop in first-half underlying

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-UK small caps fall 0.1 percent

The FTSE Small Cap index and junior-listed AIM shares drop 0.1 percent and 0.3 percent respectively, mirroring falls on the wider market, with the blue chips off 0.1 percent. Hill & Smith Holdings, a supplier of infrastructure products, is among the top FTSE Small Cap fallers with a 5.7 per

Tuesday broker round-up UPDATE

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

Tuesday broker round-up UPDATE

Abcam:Investec shifts target price from 484p to 487p and keeps a buy recommendation. Admiral Group: UBS ups target price from 1200p to 1275p and reiterates a neutral rating. Amlin: Westhouse Securities raises target price from 440p to 455p, but downgrades from add to neutral. Anite: Numis reduce

RBS director makes sale ahead of Direct Line flotation

Chris Sullivan, who has been the Chief Executive of Royal Bank of Scotland's Corporate Banking Division for three years, sold 85,805 shares in the lender less than a week after it announced plans to float its Direct Line Insurance Group. The flotation will complete one of the conditions of its £45

Hill and Smith puts pedal to the metal

Fears that public spending cuts would prove a significant road block to crash barrier maker Hill and Smith appear to have been unfounded, as the firm performed ahead of expectations in the first half of the year. The manufacturer and supplier of infrastructure products and provider of galvanizing s

Broker tips: Lamprell, BTG, Hills and Smith

Nomura has downgraded its recommendation for oil, gas and energy engineer Lamprell from buy to reduce following last week's profit warning. "We believe Lamprell's execution and operational strategy is fundamentally at risk and we were wrong to previously assume the company had turned a new leaf. In

Broker snap: Hill and Smith's a potential acquisition target, says Charles Stanley

Charles Stanley has initiated coverage of infrastructure group Hill and Smith with a buy recommendation and 390p target price after last week's strong trading update. "The IMS last week stated that trading was ahead of expectations in the first four months of the year and in our view, Hill & Smith'

UPDATE: Tuesday broker round-up

BP: UBS raises target from 450p to 480p, keeps buy rating. Whitbread: Peel Hunt keeps buy stance and 2,096p target. Whitbread: Evolution Securities confirms buy recommendation and 1,750p target. F&C Asset Management: Singer Capital Markets cuts target from 70p to 65p, fair value rating kept. Be

Tesco finance director adds more to his basket

Laurie McIlwee, finance director at Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, has bought 13,617 ordinary shares at 364.8p. The £49,675 purchase brings McIlwee's total number of shares to 340,215. McIlwee joined the board at Tesco at the start of 2009, having undertaken previous roles within the comp

Tuesday tips round-up: Morgan Sindall, Centrica, Imperial Tobacco

Cautious optimism is about the best one can expect from a business such as Morgan Sindall, so heavily exposed is it to a range of activities in construction. The shares have been trending down since the start of the year and sell on less than eight times' earnings and have the support of a yield app