Renew Holdings Share News (RNWH)

DIRECTOR DEALINGS - Renew Holdings Executives Exercise Options, Sell Shares

Wednesday broker round-up UPDATE

Anglo American: JP Morgan cuts target price from 1675p to 1655p keeping a neutral rating. Aquarium Platinum: Investec shifts target price from 46p to 48p and stays with its hold recommendation. ASOS: Deutsche Bank increases target price from 3800p to 4450p, while leaving its hold recommendation un

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-UK small caps rise to outperform blue-chips

The FTSE Small Caps Index is up by 0.2 percent while the FTSE AIM All Share Index rises 0.1 percent, outpacing a fall of 0.4 percent on the blue-chip FTSE 100 index. Symphony Environment Technologies jumps 30.8 percent after the company signs a 5-year supply and marketing agreement with Jan

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-UK small caps rise to beat fall on blue-chips

Britain's small cap equity indexes rise in mid-session trade to outperform a fall on the blue-chip index. The FTSE Small Cap Index and the FTSE AIM All Share Index are both up by 0.3 percent, outperforming a 0.3 percent decline on the blue-chip FTSE 100 index. The FTSE 250 mid-cap index, w

Monday broker round-up UPDATE

BAE Systems: Morgan Stanley increases target price from 350p to 430p and retains an equal-weight rating. Bodycote: N+1 Singer upgrades to buy with a target price of 700p. British American Tabacco: Goldman Sachs takes target price from 4220p to 4280p and stays with its buy recommendation. Capita G

Thursday broker round-up UPDATE

Amara Mining: Numis lowers target price from 80p to 70p, while keeping a buy recommendation. ARM Holdings: Exane downgrades to neutral with a target price of 1000p. Aveva: Panmure Gordon raises target price from 1900p to 2076p and retains a hold recommendation. Canaccord Genuity increases target p

Renew Holdings unveils rise in pre-tax profit

Engineering group Renew Holdings increased its dividend by five per cent to 1.10p per share following an increase in half-year pre-tax profit. The company, which supplies services to UK infrastructure, reported a pre-tax profit of £4.6m for the six months to March 31st, up 7.0% from the prior year.

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-UK small caps up 0.2 pct, Greencore rallies

UK small caps rise 0.2 percent, broadly in line with mid-caps and blue chips, up 0.1 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively. Shares in Greencore rise 2.8 percent as the food group reports a 0.9 percent increase in its first-half sales, helped by a 1.8 percent rise in food revenue. "Gr

Tuesday broker round-up UPDATE

Antofagasta: Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 1065p to 1040p, while leaving its hold recommendation unchanged. Barratt Developments: Goldman Sachs takes target price from 351p to 371p maintaining a buy recommendation. Big Yellow Group: Investec increases target price from 370p to 430p a

Tuesday broker round-up UPDATE

Aberdeen Asset Management: Citigroup raises target price from 320p to 345p and downgrades to neutral. JP Morgan raises target price from 330p to 414p, overweight rating unchanged. Credit Suisse moves target price from 323p to 380p, outperform rating kept. Exane BNP Paribas raises target price from 3

Renew to close pumps unit

UK infrastructure engineering services group Renew saw shares fall on Monday morning after announcing the decision to close its C&A Pumps business and saying that group trading has been 'satisfactory'. The firm said that it has been "increasingly difficult" for the pumps unit to trade profitably fo

Sunday share tips: Renew Holdings, City of London Group, Banks

Maintenance work might not be glamorous, but in times of austerity a business whose work comes in regardless of economic conditions stands out from the crowd. Misunderstood Renew Holdings is widely associated with its 200-year history in construction, but this is misguided as the company is focused

Glencore's Glasenberg buys another round

Ivan Glasenberg, the Chief Executive Officer at Glencore International, has stayed true to his word and made another significant share purchase using part of the money he received from the firm's latest dividend payout. The director bought 2.83m shares at an average price of 356.65p for a total of

Mears Chairman sells all of his ordinary shares

Bob Holt, Chairman of Mears, a social housing maintenance firm, has exercised share options for over 1,500,000 ordinary shares and subsequently sold two million shares - his entire holding of ordinary shares in the firm. He sold the shares for 250p each for a total of £0.5m. 56-year-old Holt has

Renew reports 'satisfactory' first quarter

Renew, an engineering services group supporting UK infrastructure, has reported that trading for the first quarter was 'satisfactory'. The order book at the end of 2011 remained strong at £289m, up slightly from £283m the year before. Engineering Services had an order book of £197m, an increase o