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Farallon Capital Management 13F holdings, Q1 2003

Holdings as of March 31, 2003 · filings on SEC EDGAR · latest filing →

Farallon Capital Management disclosed 105 US equity positions worth $2.5bn in its Q1 2003 13F filing. The largest position was Pharmacia Corp at 26.9% of the reported book, followed by COR Therapeutics and United Stationers Inc. Against the Q4 2002 filing, it opened 6 new positions, added to 18 and reduced 9 among the top 50 holdings.

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What did Farallon Capital Management own in Q1 2003? Top 50 positions

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesvs Q4 2002
1 Pharmacia Corp 26.9%$681.4m15,736,400 55% added
2 COR Therapeutics 6.7%$170.0m154,017,000 -11% reduced
3 United Stationers Inc 2.7%$69.0m3,231,511 4% added
4 Sealed Air 2.7%$69.0m1,500,401 2% added
5 COR Therapeutics '06 2.6%$64.9m58,200,000 23% added
6 Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc 2.4%$61.3m3,784,340 31% added
7 Montpelier Re Holdings 2.1%$53.4m1,892,300 -4% reduced
8 Health Net, Inc 2.1%$52.0m1,943,900 -23% reduced
9 Panamerican Beverages 1.9%$47.2m2,176,700 new
10 Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream 1.9%$46.8m675,000 294% added
11 Sepracor Inc SDCV 5.0% 2/1 1.5%$38.7m53,003,000 0% held
12 Invitrogen Corp 1.5%$38.2m1,247,300 -15% reduced
13 I2 Technologies 1.5%$37.8m63,000,000 0% held
14 PCG PG&E Corporation Utilities 1.5%$37.0m2,752,700 0% held
15 Quintiles Transactional Corp 1.4%$35.3m2,900,209 383% added
16 Hispanic Broadcasting Corp 1.3%$32.6m1,580,300 2343% added
17 Sappi Ltd. (ADR) SPONS 1.3%$32.4m2,714,800 -2% reduced
18 Anthem Inc 1.3%$32.0m483,200 111% added
19 Officemax Inc 1.3%$31.7m6,149,300 0% held
20 Laboratory Crp of Amer Hldgs 1.2%$30.2m1,018,500 new
21 Potash Corp of Saskatchewan 1.1%$28.7m464,400 0% held
22 WAT Waters Corp Healthcare 1.1%$27.7m1,310,900 0% held
23 WebMD Corp 1.1%$27.7m3,067,300 0% held
24 Yankee Candle 1.1%$27.4m1,609,800 0% held
25 Scios Inc 1.1%$27.0m613,919 new
26 Arch Capital Group 1.1%$26.7m787,824 7% added
27 Ocean Energy Inc del 1.0%$25.1m1,255,300 new
28 City Investing Co Liq. Tr UNIT BEN INT 0.9%$23.4m12,241,832 0% held
29 Sepracor Inc 0.9%$23.2m29,830,000 0% held
30 Aspen Technologies SDCV 5.25% 6/1 0.9%$23.2m30,500,000 new
31 CSG Systems Intl Inc 0.9%$22.8m2,625,094 237% added
32 Argosy Gaming 0.9%$22.7m1,137,800 -12% reduced
33 Siebel Systems 0.8%$21.4m21,468,000 0% held
34 Allied Waste Industries 0.8%$20.4m2,558,200 5% added
35 Liberty Media 0.8%$20.2m2,080,000 0% held
36 Insurance Auto Auctions 0.8%$20.1m1,827,300 0% held
37 Sirus Satellite Radio 0.8%$19.9m27,239,489 new
38 WM Waste Management Inc del Industrials 0.8%$19.1m902,934 0% held
39 DRI Darden Restaurants Inc Consumer Cyclical 0.8%$19.0m1,065,000 122% added
40 Trizec Properties Inc 0.7%$18.4m2,164,561 62% added
41 Cypress Semiconductor '05 4% 0.7%$18.2m20,145,000 -42% reduced
42 Agere Systems Inc 0.7%$17.5m11,687,177 100% added
43 Platinum Underwriters Holdings 0.7%$16.6m655,000 1% added
44 Companhia Vale Do Rio Doce SPONS 0.6%$15.9m589,600 0% held
45 Avaya Inc 0.6%$15.8m34,450,000 26% added
46 G & K Services Inc 0.6%$14.8m614,774 12% added
47 KFY Korn Ferry International Industrials 0.6%$14.0m2,137,500 0% held
48 NOC Northrop Grumman Corp Industrials 0.5%$13.9m161,781 -52% reduced
49 Providian 0.5%$13.4m36,560,000 -28% reduced
50 Sealed Air Corp 0.5%$12.2m304,000 0% held

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.