Wednesday broker round-up UPDATE

Abcam: Investec reduces target price from 552p to 480p and reiterates its buy recommendation. Numis upgrades from hold to buy with a target price 510p.Advanced Medical Solutions: Canaccord Genuity shifts target price from 94p to 101p and keeps a hold recommendation.African Barrick Gold: Nomura raises target price from 270p to 350p keeping its buy recommendation.Alent: Credit Suisse lowers target price from 400p to 390p retaining an overweight rating.Ashtead Group: JP Morgan raises target price from 913p to 996p and stays with its overweight rating.Barratt Developments: Jefferies ups target price from 466p to 491p and retains a buy recommendation. Credit Suisse shifts target price from 451p to 458p, while downgrading from outperform to neutral. UBS raises target price from 425p to 480p and reiterates a buy recommendation.Belgravium Technologies: WH Ireland shifts target price from 5p to 6.5p and upgrades from outperform to buy.Bellway: Credit Suisse reduces target price from 2058p to 1876p and downgrades from outperform to neutral.Berkeley Group: Credit Suisse reduces target price from 2657p to 2506p and retains a neutral rating.Bovis Homes Group: Credit Suisse lowers target price from 1004p to 952p and reiterates a neutral rating.British American Tabacco: RBC Capital reduces target price from 2700p to 2600p and stays with its underperform rating.Capital & Regional: Numis shifts target price from 53p to 58p, while downgrading from buy to add.Centamin: Nomura ups target price from 45p to 85p upgrading to buy.Devro: N+1 Singer cuts target price from 285p to 246p and reiterates its sell recommendation.Dignity: Investec ups target price from 1588p to 1660p and retains a buy recommendation.Drax Group: JP Morgan increases target price from 845p to 910p and retains an overweight rating.Fresnillo: Deutsche Bank moves target price from 825p to 840p maintaining a hold recommendation. UBS cuts target price from 1200p to 1125p, while staying with its buy recommendation.Glencore Xstrata: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 377p to 400p and stays with its buy recommendation.Hellermann Tyton: Canaccord Genuity moves target price from 330p to 370p and stays with its buy recommendation.Helphire Group: N+1 Singer shifts target price from 7.8p to 8.7p and keeps its buy recommendation.Heritage Oil: Northland places both its target price (prev.: 238p) and its buy recommendation under review.International Consolidated Airlines Group: Cantor Fitzgerald raises target price from 360p to 470p and maintains a hold recommendation.Lookers: Numis raises target price to 160p and upgrades from add to buy.Meggitt: Deutsche Bank cuts target price from 510p to 485p retaining a hold recommendation. JP Morgan cuts target price from 575p to 540p and maintains a neutral rating. Investec moves target price from 540p to 550p and upgrades to buy.Melrose: Investec cuts target price from 341p to 330p and downgrades from buy to add. Numis downgrades from hold to reduce with a target price of 290p.Moneysupermarket: UBS moves target price from 170p to 185p and reiterates its neutral rating.Pace: JP Morgan increases target price from 380p to 437p and keeps an overweight rating. Numis raises target price from 340p to 420p and maintains a hold recommendation.Pearson: Investec reduces target price from 1200p to 1052p and retains a hold recommendation.Pennon Group: Deutsche Bank raises target price from 650p to 800p upgrading to buy.Perform: Numis upgrades from add to buy with a target price of 347p.Persimmon: Credit Suisse reduces target price from 1532p to 1486p and downgrades from outperform to neutral.Petropavlovsk: Nomura moves target price from 90p to 100p and stays with its neutral rating.Polymetal International: Nomura cuts target price from 590p to 550p and downgrades to reduce.Publishing Technology: Westhouse Securities upgrades from add to buy with a target price of 560p.Randgold Resources: Nomura raises target price from 4600p to 6000p and upgrades to buy.Sagentia: Numis ups target price from 165p to 180p, while downgrading from buy to add.Senior: Citi moves target price from 300p to 330p and reiterates a buy recommendation.Segro: Liberum Capital cuts target price from 364p to 345p leaving its hold recommendation unchanged.Serco Group: Jefferies reduces target price from 560p to 435p downgrading from buy to hold.Severn Trent: Deutsche Bank ups target price from 1550p to 2000p upgrading to buy.SOCO International: Canaccord Genuity downgrades from hold to sell with a target price of 385p. Numis downgrades from buy to add with a target price of 515p.SQS: Canaccord Genuity raises target price from 560p to 640p and maintains a buy recommendation.Taylor Wimpey: Jefferies takes target price from 140p to 151p maintaining a buy recommendation. Credit Suisse lowers target price from 134p to 127p and downgrades from outperform to neutral. UBS ups target price from 137p to 150p and keeps its buy recommendation.United Utilities: Deutsche Bank increases target price from 800p to 1000p and retains a buy recommendation.Vesuvius: JP Morgan cuts target price from 497p to 488p, while leaving its overweight rating unaltered. UBS lowers target price from 440p to 420p and stays with its sell recommendation.Whitbread: Nomura raises target price from 4023p to 4770p and maintains its buy recommendation. UBS increases target price from 4090p to 4450p retaining its neutral rating.Xchanging: Citi ups target price from 150p to 180p and keeps a neutral rating.4imprint Group: Espirito Santo raises target price from 650p to 760p and maintains a buy recommendation.