Thursday broker round-up

Afren: Liberum Capital takes target price from 136p to 197p and upgrades to buy.African Minerals: Liberum Capital cuts target price from 423p to 410p, while staying with its buy recommendation. Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 400p to 345p leaving its buy recommendation unchanged.Alent: Deutsche Bank lowers target price from 350p to 320p retaining a hold recommendation. Credit Suisse cuts target price from 430p to 410p and keeps an outperform rating.Amara Mining: Canaccord Genuity lowers target price from 30p to 25p, while maintaining its buy recommendation.APR Energy: Credit Suisse ups target price from 1300p to 1350p and reiterates an outperform rating.ASOS: Societe Generale raises target price from 6000p to 6400p, while its hold recommendation remains unchanged.Barclays: Credit Suisse moves target price from 280p to 270p maintaining a neutral rating.British American Tabacco: Barclays ups target price from 3950p to 4000p and stays with its overweight rating.Centamin: Investec shifts target price from 50p to 54p staying with its buy recommendation.China Chaintek: Daniel Stewart initiates with a target price of 300p and a buy recommendation.Clarkson: Panmure Gordon raises target price from 2000p to 2500p and keeps a buy recommendation.Croda International: Nomura reduces target price from 2800p to 2700p keeping a neutral rating. Canaccord Genuity moves target price from 2000p to 2030p, while still keeping a sell recommendation.CSR: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 330p to 350p, but still recommends selling.Dairy Crest: Investec takes target price from 500p to 530p, but downgrades from buy to add.DCC: Jefferies raises target price from 3200p to 3250p and keeps a buy recommendation.easyJet: Alphavalue moves target price from 1126.9p to 1129.9p and upgrades from sell to reduce. Liberum Capital starts with a target price of 1500p and a buy recommendation.Global Petroleum: Northland Capital lowers target price from 18.1p to 10.7p staying with its buy recommendation.Halford Group: Investec ups target price from 460p to 520p and retains a buy recommendation.Kazakhmys: Canaccord Genuity takes target price from 280p to 300p maintaining a hold recommendation.Laird: Liberum Capital initiates with a target price of 290p and a buy recommendation.Lancashire: Canaccord Genuity moves target price from 780p to 790p and reiterates a hold recommendation.Lloyds Banking Group: Credit Suisse shifts target price from 65p to 68p retaining a neutral rating.Morgan Sindall: Jefferies increases target price from 650p to 1000p maintaining a buy recommendation.New Britain Palm Oil: Liberum Capital upgrades to buy with a target price of 750p.Persimmon: Liberum Capital ups target price from 1261p to 1303p and stays with its hold recommendation. Deutsche Bank raises target price from 1274p to 1310p and maintains a hold recommendation.Provident Financial: Berenberg increases target price from 1560p to 1970p and upgrades to buy.Reed Elsevier: Investec places its target price (prev.: 900p) under review, while leaving its buy recommendation unchanged.RSA Insurance Group: Alphavalue shifts target price from 147.4p to 148p and upgrades from add to buy.SAB Miller: Nomura raises target price from 3600p to 3700p reiterating an overweight rating.Schroders: Canaccord Genuity increases target price from 2400p to 2500p, while downgrading from buy to hold.Spirax-Sarco Engineering: Investec upgrades from hold to buy with an unchanged target price of 3150p.Super Group: Investec raises target price from 1300p to 1500p and reiterates a buy recommendation. Canaccord Genuity ups target price from 1500p to 1530p staying with its buy recommendation.Synthomer: Canaccord Genuity takes target price from 248p to 277p and maintains a buy recommendation.Tullow Oil: Alphavalue lowers target price from 870.9p to 867.2p, while upgrading from sell to reduce.Weir Group: Liberum Capital reduces target price from 2300p to 2200p downgrading to hold. Tullow Oil Barclays Lloyds Schroders Relx Morgan Sindall Group Synthomer British American Tobacco Weir Group Halfords Persimmon Lancashire Holdings DCC Croda International ASOS easyJet Spirax-Sarco Clarkson Gx Cleantech