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Baillie Gifford 13F holdings, Q4 2008

Holdings as of December 31, 2008 · filings on SEC EDGAR · latest filing →

Baillie Gifford disclosed 92 US equity positions worth $8.0bn in its Q4 2008 13F filing. The largest position was AMZN at 7.3% of the reported book, followed by PBR/A and TEVA. Against the Q3 2008 filing, it opened 4 new positions, added to 25 and reduced 20 among the top 50 holdings.

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What did Baillie Gifford own in Q4 2008? Top 50 positions

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesvs Q3 2008
1 AMZN D Amazon.Com Consumer Cyclical 7.3%$584.9m11,406,678 2% added
2 PBR/A D Petrobras Pref 6.2%$497.1m24,356,422 4% added
3 TEVA D Teva Pharmaceutical Healthcare 6.0%$480.4m11,284,432 2% added
4 D Walgreen 5.5%$445.5m18,058,434 11% added
5 D CVRD Pref 5.1%$408.0m38,313,004 -2% reduced
6 DE D Deere Industrials 4.6%$373.7m9,751,397 6% added
7 D America Movil 'L Shares' 3.9%$315.5m10,180,604 6% added
8 D Google 3.9%$309.8m1,006,901 2% added
9 D Banco Itau Pref 3.6%$290.9m25,080,498 13% added
10 SLB D Schlumberger Energy 3.1%$248.2m5,862,436 -2% reduced
11 D Iron Mountain 3.0%$242.4m9,802,668 -2% reduced
12 D Berkshire Hathaway 3.0%$237.9m74,033 18% added
13 EBAY D eBay Consumer Cyclical 2.7%$218.8m15,670,638 -25% reduced
14 D VCA Antech 2.4%$189.8m9,549,560 -3% reduced
15 EOG D EOG Resources Energy 2.3%$187.3m2,813,838 -25% reduced
16 FSLR D First Solar Technology 2.3%$184.4m1,336,769 -2% reduced
17 PGR D Progressive Financial Services 2.1%$169.6m11,450,632 -14% reduced
18 WMT D Wal-Mart Stores Consumer Defensive 1.9%$153.7m2,741,271 4% added
19 BF/B D Brown-Forman B 1.9%$152.6m2,963,717 30% added
20 D Genentech 1.8%$145.4m1,753,846 -28% reduced
21 OMC D Omnicom Communication Services 1.6%$128.7m4,780,750 12% added
22 POOL D Pool Corp Industrials 1.5%$119.7m6,663,423 -4% reduced
23 PEP D Pepsico Consumer Defensive 1.4%$115.9m2,116,388 12% added
24 BIDU D Baidu.com Communication Services 1.4%$112.4m860,500 222% added
25 D Whole Foods Market 1.3%$101.9m10,793,759 -1% reduced
26 ROK D Rockwell Automation Industrials 1.1%$85.1m2,638,220 -1% reduced
27 D Linear Technology 1.0%$78.4m3,543,653 11% added
28 KR D Kroger Consumer Defensive 0.9%$73.3m2,776,172 new
29 9990302D D Apache Corp 0.9%$71.8m963,406 -1% reduced
30 D Monsanto Co 0.9%$69.3m985,727 -49% reduced
31 D Wellpoint Inc 0.9%$69.0m1,638,718 13% added
32 PM D Philip Morris Intl Consumer Defensive 0.8%$68.3m1,569,840 13% added
33 PXGBX D Praxair 0.8%$65.9m1,110,522 6% added
34 MKL D Markel Corp Financial Services 0.8%$64.8m216,623 32% added
35 MSFT D Microsoft Technology 0.8%$60.9m3,131,746 16% added
36 USX1 D United States Steel Corp 0.7%$54.4m1,463,494 -25% reduced
37 D BanColombia Pref 0.7%$52.6m2,252,800 -0% held
38 DIS D Walt Disney Communication Services 0.6%$48.7m2,147,200 new
39 COP D ConocoPhillips Energy 0.6%$48.4m933,568 -1% reduced
40 D Athena Debt Opportunities Fund 0.5%$43.4m65,286,823 new
41 D EnCana Corp 0.5%$42.8m928,510 -27% reduced
42 BAP D Credicorp Financial Services 0.4%$32.3m646,031 10% added
43 D National Oilwell Varco 0.4%$28.3m1,155,955 -19% reduced
44 EFA D ISHARES TST.MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE IDX 0.3%$28.0m624,500 new
45 MCO D Moody's Corp Financial Services 0.3%$26.9m1,339,245 9% added
46 FAST D Fastenal Industrials 0.3%$25.9m744,291 -35% reduced
47 D Arch Coal 0.3%$24.6m1,508,809 -1% reduced
48 D SINA Corp 0.3%$24.4m1,054,300 26% added
49 D Patterson Companies 0.3%$23.6m1,258,449 14% added
50 MO D Altria Group Consumer Defensive 0.3%$21.8m1,447,179 3% added

Weights are shares of the reported long US equity book (options excluded). Values are as filed, normalised to whole dollars. Share changes compare against the immediately preceding filing only.