Analyst downgrades 6-21-07: AT, BWLD, CAKE, HD and ODP
Posted Jun 21st 2007 11:43AM by Kevin Shult
Filed under: Before the bell, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Bad news, Home Depot (HD), ALLTEL Corp (AT), Office Depot (ODP), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE)
MOST NOTEWORTHY: Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD), Alltel (AT), Home Depot (HD) and Nokia (NOK) were today's more noteworthy downgrades:
- Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ: CAKE) was downgraded to Sector Perform from Outperform at CIBC, to Outperform from Strong Buy at Raymond James and to Peer Perform from Outperform at Bear Stearns after the company reduced its second quarter guidance.
- Lehman downgraded Alltel Corp (NYSE: AT) to Equal Weight from Overweight as the firm doesn't expect a competing bid for the company.
- Home Depot (NYSE: HD) was cut to Market Perform from Outperform following yesterday's rally and feels that with the HD sale out of the way, the focus will now turn to Home Depot's ability to grow in the challenging do-it-yourself retail market. Goldman cut Nokia to Neutral from Buy on valuation...
OTHER DOWNGRADES:
- JP Morgan cut Headwaters (NYSE: HW) to Underweight from Neutral.
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