Top of the Street: Sika, Haleon, Anglo American, VAT Group

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Top of the Street: Sika, Haleon, Anglo American, VAT Group

11:35 sáng giờ GMT, 6 Tháng 8 2024

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A round-up of notable broker activity this morning from Europe's top-ranked* analysts:

** Stifel raises Swiss chemicals maker Sika SIKA.S to "buy" from "hold" after it increased its PT to CHF 270, which implies an upside of 11%, following the recent share price drop

** Goldman Sachs cuts consumer healthcare company Haleon HLN.L to "neutral" from "buy", as it sees limited catalysts to drive near term price performance, with Pfizer's 22.6% remaining holding an overhang in the short term

** Panmure Liberum cuts British miner Anglo American AAL.L to "sell" from "hold" as it says the industry is now loss making, prompting an early start to 2024's destock, inflating the industry's ore and scrap surpluses

** RBC raises Swiss industrial valves maker Vat Group VACN.S to "sector perform" from "underperform" , saying it remains overall confident on the World Federation Exchanges(WFE) market outlook and the company's role within as the radical market correction made it revisit the investment case

** Jefferies cuts Sweden's Orphan Biovitrum SOBIV.ST to "hold" from "buy", citing increasing competition pressure for the Swedish drug maker

** Deutsche Bank raises British asset manager Intermediate Capital Group ICGIN.L to "buy" from "hold", citing a 29% upside from the current share price to its unchanged PT and a FY 2025 dividend yield of about 4%

INITIATIONS AND REINSTATEMENTS

** Morgan Stanley resumes coverage of Spanish utility Naturgy NTGY.MC with "equal-weight" rating, citing improving fundamentals, but it flags low liquidity

(*Analyst rankings from Thomson Reuters StarMine. The scale is from 1-star to 5-star with 5 being the best. Analysts are ranked on earnings accuracy as well as relative performance of recommendations over trailing 12-month & 24-month periods.)

($1 = 0.7868 pounds)

($1 = 0.8542 Swiss francs)

($1 = 10.5790 Swedish crowns)

Reporting by Jakub Olesiuk and Paolo Laudani

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