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BUZZ-Just Eat: stockholders' appetite for shares wanes

** Online takeaway co Just Eat, within grasp of a record on Tues after robust FY, drops 5 pct after shareholders offload c.120.8 mln pounds of stock

** Sale priced at 345p/share - 5.5 pct below Tuesday's close

** Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Vitruvian Partners & 83North to sell shares totalling c.6.2 pct of Just Eat's share capital

** Sale: c.18.5 pct of sellers' combined total shareholding

** Bookrunners: Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS-PB - news) & Jefferies

** Follows December share sale - by Index Ventures & Vitruvian Partners again, & also STM Fidecs Trust Co Ltd

** Stock up 33 pct from 260p IPO price (April 2014)

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** Sell-side, however, confident on co's growth potential

** Whilst helping on the stake cuts, Goldman repeats "buy" rating on JE (on Tues) after results & FY15 guidance beats

** Barclays (LSE: BARC.L - news) flags co has control over the most interesting mkts in LATAM (post M&A in Brazil & Mexico) & estimates Brazil could be the next UK for JE; broker repeats 450p TP & OW rating

** Canaccord Genuity (Other OTC: CCORF - news) lifts TP to 430p vs 420p after FY (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : tricia.wright1.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)