Moneyback on Petrol:
£67,856m
8.50p
1,296.50p
Date: Thursday 03 Jul 2008
LONDON (ShareCast) - Pharmaceutical stocks move up again, with AstraZeneca boosted by brokers Goldman Sachs and ING upping their respective target prices on the stock to 2,400p and 2,300p.
Investors are steering clear of miners as metals prices slide. The likes of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are lower in line with copper prices which tumbled on the dollar’s rebound, while South Africa-focused platinum miner Lonmin came back as prices for the precious metal also slipped.
Top performing sectors so far today
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology 7,537.30 +2.77%
Fixed Line Telecommunications 2,773.90 +1.89%
Life Insurance 3,958.90 +1.75%
Tobacco 21,864.70 +1.47%
Bottom performing sectors so far today
Forestry & Paper 2,816.70 -3.33%
Industrial Metals 7,604.70 -2.41%
Industrial Engineering 3,369.50 -2.26%
Mining 24,531.90 -1.69%
| Currency | UK Pounds |
| Share Price | 1,296.50p ![]() |
| Change Today | +8.50p |
| 52 Week High | 1,385.00p |
| 52 Week Low | 1,001.00p |
| Volume | 14,151,337 |
| Shares Issued | 5,234m |
| Market Cap | £67,856m |
| Beta | 0.57 |
| RiskGrade | 121 |
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| Strong Buy | 5 |
| Buy | 2 |
| Neutral | 14 |
| Sell | 7 |
| Strong Sell | 3 |
| Total | 31 |

| Latest | Previous | |
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| Q2 | Q1 | |
| Ex-Div | 30-Jul-08 | 30-Apr-08 |
| Paid | 09-Oct-08 | 10-Jul-08 |
| Amount | 13.00p | 13.00p |
| Time | Volume / Share Price |
| 16:37 | 28,268 @ 1,294.75p |
| 16:37 | 10,026 @ 1,294.55p |
| 10:11 | 25 @ 1,285.50p |
| 16:39 | 7,390 @ 1,295.85p |
| 16:52 | 7,390 @ 1,295.85p |
| CEO | Jean-Pierre Garnier |
| CFO | Julian Heslop |
| Chair | Moncef Slaoui |