BUZZ-OneSavings Bank Plc: Up on doubled profit

** Britain's OneSavings Bank Plc (LSE: OSB.L - news) 's shares jump as much as 10.2 pct to 233 pence after it says FY underlying pretax profit more than doubled

** Stock, the best performing UK small-cap, climbs to its highest since listing in June last year

** Bank says new business wins helped increase loan portfolio, adding that it expects demand to remain strong with focus on "high value, underserved markets

** Canaccord Genuity (Other OTC: CCORF - news) upgraded the stock from "hold" and all 5 brokers that cover the stock now rate it a "buy"

** RBC Capital Markets, which has an "outperform" rating on the stock, increases its target price to 315 pence from 240 pence

** Analysts at Numis raise target price to 233 pence from 208 pence,

** Bank says it would pay a maiden dividend of 3.9 pence per share for the year ended Dec (Shanghai: 600875.SS - news) . 31

** OneSavings Bank was the first among a number of new banks that listed on the LSE last year to challenge the dominance of Britain's big four banks that control more than 80 pct of the personal current account market and over 85 pct of small business banking (Reuters Messaging: noor.hussain.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)