MOST NOTEWORTHY:

• 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.

• Buffalo Wild Wings (NASDAQ: BWLD) was cut to Neutral from Buy at Merriman on valuation.

• 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...

• JP Morgan cut Headwaters (NYSE: HW) to Underweight from Neutral.

• Citigroup downgraded Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU) to Hold from Buy.

• Matrix USA cut Phototronics (NASDAQ: PLAB) to Sell from Hold.

• Ferris, Baker downgraded Gladstone Commercial Corp (NASDAQ: GOOD) to Neutral from Buy.

• Citigroup removed Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) from its Citi Recommended List.

Analyst downgrades 6-21-07: AT, BWLD, CAKE, HD and ODP originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.