RBC Capital Markets has raised its forecasts for Shell and kept an 'outperform' rating, saying the business was "firing on most cylinders" in the quarter.
Shore Capital reiterated its 'buy' rating on bank NatWest after a forecast-beating first quarter but said it sees the least amount of upside potential in the stock compared with the wider banking sector.
Numis has trimmed its target price for Schroders from 380.0p to 365.0p on Thursday after first-quarter results from the asset management firm were "a little weaker than expected".
Over at Berenberg, analysts hiked their target price on software firm Microlise Group from 170.0p to 210.0p on Wednesday after the company published its in-line full-year results earlier in the month.
Jefferies upgraded Reckitt Benckiser to ‘hold’ from ‘underperform’ on Tuesday and lifted the price target to 4,400p from 4,100p.