UK Broker Ratings

Our UK broker ratings report, updated daily, helps you identify and track FTSE- and AIM-listed companies affected by a ratings change today.

19 June 2013

Listed below are details of selected companies that have undergone a ratings change today. Click on the link below to view a PDF of today's UK Broker Ratings.

• UK broker ratings (9KB)

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Source: Bloomberg (19 June 2013)

Ratings definitions:

• Outperform or overweight: the contributing broker predicts the share price of a security will perform better than a specific benchmark
• Underperform or underweight: a security will fare worse than a specific benchmark
• Upgrade and downgrade: a broker's last rating
• Maintain: a broker has maintained or reiterated a recommendation
• New rating: an analyst has initiated coverage on a stock
• Neutral or in-line recommendation: the broker expects a security's share price to match the performance of
  a benchmark
• Price target: the value a contributing broker expects the share price to reach (generally within a 12-month period). Recommendations are not always accompanied by a price target
• Last price: the market share price at the time of writing the update
• Potential upside/downside: the 'potential' percentage gain or loss that could result if a contributing broker's price target is reached. The percentage gain or loss is calculated based on the last price
• Contributing broker: refers to the investment management firm providing the recommendation and price target

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