Friday broker round-up UPDATE

Advanced Medical Solutions: Oriel initiates with a target price of 135p and a buy recommendation.

African Barrick Gold: JP Morgan moves target price from 300p to 310p maintaining its overweight rating. Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 330p to 275p keeping a buy recommendation. Numis moves target price from 270p to 280p and leaves its buy recommendation unaltered. Investec shifts target price from 258p to 262p and maintains a buy recommendation.

Amara Mining: Canaccord Genuity lowers target price from 33p to 28p keeping its buy recommendation.

Avocet Mining: Canaccord Genuity lowers target price from 6p to 4p and retains a sell recommendation.

Balfour Beatty: Berenberg cuts target price from 290p to 250p staying with its buy recommendation.

Britvic: Numis lowers target price from 765p to 763p, while upgrading to add.

Centamin: Canaccord Genuity cuts target price from 74p to 65p and keeps a speculative buy recommendation.

Dart Group: Canaccord Genuity ups target price from 288p to 295p and leaves its buy recommendation unchanged.

Debenhams: Deutsche Bank lowers target price from 76p to 75p retaining its hold recommendation.

Dechra Pharmaceuticals: Oriel upgrades to add with a target price of 775p.

Diamond Corp: Northland downgrades from buy to hold.

Hochschild Mining: JP Morgan shifts target price from 150p to 155p and keeps a neutral rating.

Inchcape: Deutsche Bank moves target price from 700p to 715p and reiterates a buy recommendation.

Lloyds Banking Group: Deutsche Bank shifts target price from 94p to 95p and keeps a buy recommendation.

Minera IRL: Canaccord Genuity lowers target price from 20p to 14p, while its speculative buy recommendation remains unchanged.

Pan African Resources: Canaccord Genuity lowers target price from 18p to 15p and maintains a buy recommendation.

Pearson: Westhouse Securities cuts target price from 1001p to 995p and stays with its sell recommendation.

Petropavlovsk: Canaccord Genuity cuts target price from 70p to 40p, while leaving its speculative buy recommendation unchanged.

Polymetal: Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 565p to 440p and reiterates a hold recommendation.

Randgold Resources: Canaccord Genuity reduces target price from 5100p to 4100p retaining its hold recommendation.

Reed Elsevier: Berenberg increases target price from 960p to 1005p and keeps a hold recommendation.

Rolls-Royce: Deutsche Bank reduces target price from 860p to 655p maintaining its sell recommendation.

Schroders: JP Morgan reduces target price from 2985p to 2800p leaving its overweight rating unchanged.

Spectris: Investec places its target price (prev.: 2380p) under review, while keeping a buy recommendation.

Tern: Beaufort initiates with a speculative buy recommendation.

Tesco: Deutsche Bank cuts target price from 220p to 180p and retains a hold recommendation. JP Morgan cuts target price from 165p to 145p staying with its underweight rating. Espirito Santo cuts target price from 165p to 145p reiterating its sell recommendation.