RE: Manipulation10 Oct 2019 15:48
What are Barclays reasons for a reduction in target price today?, can't seem to find anything other than a revised target.
All in all, one should take their target prices with a massive dose of salt, unless backed up by valid arguments simply because these institutions may well probably be plying their trading activities in the absence of real news to get PI's to either sell or buy etc.
Not long ago we had 95p as a target, what has changed in 3 weeks to revise it down? all I know is that we are due another lifting soon as reported on this BB, so is progressing as guided.
FT : Stocks To Watch Sept 23rd
Canaccord Genuity upgraded Hurricane Energy from “speculative buy” to “buy” with a 95p target price in response to recent first-half results from the North Sea oil explorer. An operational update on Hurricane’s Lancaster prospect in the West of Shetland improved confidence both in the reservoir quality and the project work, it said.
“The Lancaster early production system has been on stream for only three months or so, and unsurprisingly it has not all been straightforward operationally. That seems likely to continue through the full commissioning process and the expansion programme ahead.
Yet underlying that the company’s confidence in the Lancaster EPS is strengthening and we think that is increasingly justified in terms of both the subsurface and facilities.
“There is still plenty of data to be gathered to embed the sense of reducing risk, and with another update expected before the year end 2019 and a capital markets day in the first quarter of 2020 there will be plenty of information to assess. We note that the current market capitalisation discounts little more than a risked view of the planned expanded Lancaster EPS, largely ignoring the undeveloped resource potential.”
What are Barclays reasons for a reduction in target price today?, can't seem to find anything other than a revised target.
All in all, one should take target prices with a massive dose of salt, unless backed up by valid arguments simply because these institutions are probably plying their trading activities in the absence of official news to get PI's to either sell or buy etc.