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Farallon Capital Management 13F holdings, Q1 1999

Holdings as of March 31, 1999 · filings on SEC EDGAR · latest filing →

Farallon Capital Management disclosed 102 US equity positions worth $2.0bn in its Q1 1999 13F filing. The largest position was AirTouch Communications at 9.6% of the reported book, followed by Ascend Communications and American Stores Co New. Against the Q3 1998 filing, it opened 48 new positions, added to 2 and reduced 0 among the top 50 holdings.

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What did Farallon Capital Management own in Q1 1999? Top 50 positions

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesvs Q3 1998
1 AirTouch Communications 9.6%$196.0m2,028,100 new
2 Ascend Communications 8.4%$170.4m2,035,600 new
3 American Stores Co New 5.6%$113.6m3,441,400 62% added
4 AMP Inc 5.3%$108.5m2,020,199 801% added
5 Jacor Communications 4.0%$81.6m1,073,940 new
6 Transamerica Corp 3.7%$75.7m1,065,700 new
7 Geocities 3.3%$67.8m618,800 new
8 Excite Inc 3.2%$65.2m466,189 new
9 AT&T Corp 2.7%$55.4m693,553 new
10 Bankers Tr Corp 2.5%$51.1m578,756 new
11 Sealed Air Corp New 2.3%$46.0m928,506 new
12 Morton Intl Inc Ind New 2.2%$45.7m1,243,900 new
13 Envoy Corp New 2.2%$45.4m1,017,879 new
14 Learning Co Inc 2.0%$41.3m1,424,400 new
15 Getchell Gold Corp 2.0%$39.9m1,523,300 new
16 Pacificorp 1.9%$37.6m2,180,900 new
17 Lam Resh Corp SB NT CV 1.6%$32.0m37,600,000 new
18 Xylan Corp 1.6%$31.6m859,000 new
19 YPF YPF Sociedad Anonima SPON Energy 1.5%$30.4m964,000 new
20 Elan Plc WT EXP 1.4%$27.8m650,500 new
21 United States Filter 1.3%$26.9m879,400 new
22 Coltec Inds Inc 1.3%$26.9m1,477,400 new
23 Meyer Fred Inc Del New 1.3%$26.7m454,200 new
24 Cypress SUB NT CV 1.3%$26.0m29,000,000 new
25 United Stationers 1.2%$24.5m1,634,700 new
26 Eagle Hardware & 1.2%$24.3m636,700 new
27 Axogen Ltd 1.1%$23.4m750,700 new
28 Nielsen Media Resh 1.1%$23.0m932,098 new
29 Golden St Bancorp 1.1%$21.9m985,320 new
30 America Online Inc 1.0%$19.7m135,188 new
31 Fisher Scientific 0.9%$18.4m1,056,140 new
32 Comsat Corp 0.8%$17.2m595,700 new
33 Consorcio G Grupo SUB DB CONV 0.8%$16.7m37,193,000 new
34 Crescendo 0.8%$16.6m1,137,345 new
35 TIG Hldgs Inc 0.8%$16.4m1,003,500 new
36 APH Amphenol Corp New Technology 0.8%$15.5m403,988 new
37 City Investing Co UNIT BEN 0.7%$14.9m11,463,129 new
38 Telephone & Data Sys 0.7%$14.4m255,100 new
39 International 0.7%$13.7m1,742,300 new
40 Intelligent Polymers UNIT EX 0.6%$12.9m465,400 new
41 First Wash Rlty Tr 0.6%$11.9m439,246 new
42 MacMillan Bloedel 0.5%$10.9m983,800 new
43 New England Elec Sys 0.5%$10.8m222,800 new
44 Spiros Dev Corp II UNIT EX 0.5%$9.7m1,120,800 new
45 Browning Ferris Inds 0.5%$9.5m247,500 new
46 Pool Energy Svcs Co 0.5%$9.3m617,900 new
47 Allergan Specialty 0.4%$9.1m952,521 new
48 Nexstar Pharmaceuticals 0.4%$9.0m527,300 new
49 Platinum Technology 0.4%$8.9m350,000 new
50 CIT Group Inc 0.4%$8.6m282,200 new

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.