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Farallon Capital Management 13F holdings, Q4 2003

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

Farallon Capital Management disclosed 129 US equity positions worth $3.9bn in its Q4 2003 13F filing. The largest position was CapitalSource Inc at 16.5% of the reported book, followed by FleetBoston Financial and Wellpoint Health Ntwks. Against the Q3 2003 filing, it opened 7 new positions, added to 16 and reduced 14 among the top 50 holdings.

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What did Farallon Capital Management own in Q4 2003? Top 50 positions

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesvs Q3 2003
1 CapitalSource Inc 16.5%$646.4m29,814,246 0% held
2 FleetBoston Financial 10.0%$393.3m9,011,100 new
3 Wellpoint Health Ntwks 4.1%$160.0m1,650,000 new
4 AdvancePCS 3.9%$151.9m2,877,210 60% added
5 Anthem Inc 2.9%$115.3m1,537,500 101% added
6 PFE Pfizer Healthcare 2.7%$107.4m3,038,850 -8% reduced
7 PCG PG&E Corporation Utilities 2.5%$99.0m3,565,800 -1% reduced
8 Boise Cascade 2.5%$98.1m2,983,936 733% added
9 Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc 2.2%$85.5m3,850,000 38% added
10 Laboratory Crp of Amer Hldgs 2.0%$77.3m2,091,500 -15% reduced
11 Allied Waste Inds Inc 1.8%$68.7m897,900 17% added
12 Countrywide Financial Corp 1.7%$67.8m893,330 57% added
13 United Stationers Inc 1.7%$64.7m1,581,602 -12% reduced
14 Banco Latinoamericano Exp 1.6%$63.4m3,296,012 -7% reduced
15 CSG Systems Intl Inc 1.5%$60.0m4,803,796 34% added
16 Concord EFS 1.5%$57.2m3,855,000 -48% reduced
17 Montpelier Re Holdings 1.4%$55.0m1,500,000 -7% reduced
18 DST Systems Inc 1.4%$54.5m1,305,400 62% added
19 Sealed Air Corp 1.4%$54.5m1,006,700 1% added
20 The Dial Corporation 1.3%$49.8m1,750,000 new
21 Medtronic Inc. DBCV 1.25%9/1 1.2%$47.5m46,320,000 new
22 Agere Systems 1.2%$46.2m15,939,777 9% added
23 Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream 1.1%$45.0m578,686 -8% reduced
24 Yankee Candle 1.1%$42.6m1,559,800 -11% reduced
25 Sicor Inc 1.0%$38.3m1,409,200 new
26 Potash Corp of Saskatchewan 0.9%$36.8m426,000 -8% reduced
27 DRI Darden Restaurants Inc Consumer Cyclical 0.9%$33.6m1,597,000 19% added
28 LEN/B Lennar Corp- B 0.8%$32.8m359,000 118% added
29 TV Azteca S.A. SPONS 0.8%$31.8m3,497,100 265% added
30 Liberty Media (A) 0.8%$31.5m2,652,566 3% added
31 Arch Capital Group 0.8%$31.4m787,824 0% held
32 Charter Communications '05 0.8%$29.8m31,525,000 0% held
33 WAT Waters Corp Healthcare 0.7%$29.2m880,800 -26% reduced
34 WebMD Corp 0.7%$27.4m3,052,300 -2% reduced
35 WMB Williams Cos. Inc Energy 0.7%$27.0m2,750,000 0% held
36 Insurance Auto Auctions 0.6%$23.8m1,827,300 0% held
37 City Investing CO Liq Trust UNIT BEN INT 0.6%$23.7m12,356,596 0% held
38 Sappi Ltd. SPONS 0.6%$23.0m1,686,000 -15% reduced
39 BRK/A Berkshire Hathaway 0.6%$22.7m270 0% held
40 Atherogenics Inc 0.6%$22.4m1,505,608 13% added
41 Sepracor Inc 0.6%$22.1m22,330,000 0% held
42 Newcastle Investment Corp 0.6%$22.1m814,500 0% held
43 Platinum Underwriters Hldgs 0.6%$21.9m730,000 0% held
44 NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.5%$21.2m691,801 0% held
45 Federal Home LN MTG Corp 0.5%$21.0m360,000 -68% reduced
46 Consol Energy Inc 0.5%$20.7m800,028 new
47 WDC Western Digital Corp Technology 0.5%$20.7m1,754,500 new
48 Sepracor Inc SDCV 5.000%2/1 0.5%$20.4m20,503,000 0% held
49 Regal Entertainment Group 0.5%$17.9m870,700 0% held
50 MEOH Methanex Corp Basic Materials 0.5%$17.7m1,579,302 162% 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.