MOST NOTEWORTHY:

• Goldman cut The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) to Neutral from Buy on valuation.

• Stephens downgraded shares of LivePerson Inc (NASDAQ: LPSN) to EqualWeight from Overweight citing execution risk associated with the Kasamba.com acquisition.

• Citigroup cut shares of Sunoco Inc (NYSE: SUN) to Hold from Buy and Tesoro Corp (NYSE: TSO) and Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO) to Sell from Hold based on valuation...

• Bear Stearns cut Ventana Medical Systems (NASDAQ: VMSI) to Peer Perform from Outperform.

• Baird downgraded F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) to Neutral from Outperform.

• Nuvelo Inc (NASDAQ: NUVO) was cut to Market Perform from Outperform at William Blair.

• Keefe Bruyette downgraded shares of Cowen Group (NASDAQ: COWN) to Market Perform from Outperform.

Analyst downgrades 6-27-07: FFIV, LPSN, SUN, TSO and VLO originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

MOST NOTEWORTHY:

• UBS downgraded First Data Corp (NYSE: FDC) to Neutral from Buy following the acquisition by KKR.

• Pinnacle Entertainment (NYSE: PNK) was cut to Hold from Buy at Matrix USA, as the firm believes post-hurricane reconstruction efforts are leading to significant capital expenditures, which limits upside.

• Cephalon Inc (NASDAQ: CEPH) was removed from American Technology's Focus List with shares up 15% in three weeks as the approval of Nuvigil without a Black Box warning has passed.

• JP Morgan cut shares of Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT) to Underweight from Neutral, citing risks and costs associated from the Witness Systems' (WITS) acquisition.

• Labor Ready, Inc (NYSE: LRW) was downgraded to Sell from Neutral at Goldman based on the slowdown in U.S. residential construction activity.

• Citigroup downgraded International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) to Hold from Buy with a $39 target.

• Bernstein cut MedImmune, Inc (NASDAQ: MEDI) to Market Perform from Outperform.

• Sanders Morris downgraded Dreamworks Animation SKG, Inc (NYSE: DWA) to Neutral from Buy on valuation.

• JP Morgan downgraded Icagen, Inc (NASDAQ: ICGN) to Neutral from Overweight.

• Friedman Billings cut CompuDyne Corp (NASDAQ: CDCY) to Market Perform from Outperform following Q4 results.

• Roth Capital cut LivePerson, Inc (NASDAQ: LPSN) to Sell from Hold.

Analyst downgrades 4-04-07: Cephalon, First Data & Dreamworks Animation downgraded today originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.