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Farallon Capital Management 13F holdings, Q2 2008

Holdings as of June 30, 2008 · filings on SEC EDGAR · latest filing →

Farallon Capital Management disclosed 73 US equity positions worth $5.0bn in its Q2 2008 13F filing. The largest position was CAPITALSOURCE INC at 9.5% of the reported book, followed by SHW and IWM. Against the Q1 2008 filing, it opened 6 new positions, added to 20 and reduced 19 among the top 50 holdings.

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What did Farallon Capital Management own in Q2 2008? Top 50 positions

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesvs Q1 2008
1 CAPITALSOURCE INC 9.5%$468.4m42,270,274 23% added
2 SHW SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO Basic Materials 7.1%$353.0m7,685,400 -0% held
3 IWM ISHARES TR RUSSELL 2000 6.8%$334.7m4,847,200 -58% reduced
4 WMB WILLIAMS COS INC DEL Energy 4.9%$243.2m6,032,900 21% added
5 AMERICA MOVIL SAB DE CV SPON 4.7%$232.7m4,410,686 46% added
6 SLB SCHLUMBERGER LTD Energy 4.0%$198.6m1,848,800 27% added
7 JBHT HUNT J B TRANS SVCS INC Industrials 3.5%$173.0m5,197,500 8% added
8 FIS FIDELITY NATL INFORMATION SV Technology 3.4%$167.0m4,523,900 46% added
9 CABLEVISION SYS CORP 3.2%$158.9m7,030,000 18% added
10 EEM ISHARES TR MSCI EMERG MKT 2.8%$139.3m1,026,100 -23% reduced
11 WENDYS INTL INC 2.8%$137.3m5,045,000 -7% reduced
12 MA MASTERCARD INC Financial Services 2.3%$116.2m437,500 -27% reduced
13 AAPL APPLE INC Technology 2.3%$115.8m691,500 -26% reduced
14 ORCL ORACLE CORP Technology 2.3%$114.6m5,459,252 14% added
15 MAR MARRIOTT INTL INC NEW Consumer Cyclical 2.2%$110.9m4,225,300 35% added
16 WALGREEN CO 2.1%$102.2m3,145,000 new
17 QCOM QUALCOMM INC Technology 1.9%$92.6m2,086,710 2% added
18 MI DEVS INC 1.8%$88.6m3,939,400 17% added
19 AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS INC 1.7%$84.7m3,335,000 9% added
20 HOSPIRA INC 1.6%$78.5m1,956,500 -6% reduced
21 GILD GILEAD SCIENCES INC Healthcare 1.4%$69.8m1,318,200 -44% reduced
22 STAPLES INC 1.4%$67.5m2,842,500 -50% reduced
23 SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY 1.3%$65.2m3,407,100 -34% reduced
24 BURLINGTON NORTHN SANTA FE C 1.3%$62.4m624,560 -6% reduced
25 ALLERGAN INC 1.2%$60.3m1,158,000 486% added
26 HTH HILLTOP HOLDINGS INC Financial Services 1.2%$58.3m5,653,582 0% held
27 KNOLOGY INC 1.1%$54.6m4,970,375 0% held
28 DIGITAL RIV INC 1.0%$51.4m1,333,000 43% added
29 VRSN VERISIGN INC Technology 1.0%$50.7m1,341,200 235% added
30 TOWN SPORTS INTL HLDGS INC 1.0%$49.8m5,331,279 0% held
31 XLK SELECT SCTR SPDR SBI INTTECH 0.9%$46.9m2,046,000 -43% reduced
32 CELG CELGENE CORP 0.9%$46.1m722,500 -19% reduced
33 ZBH ZIMMER HLDGS INC Healthcare 0.9%$45.7m671,700 30% added
34 IBB ISHARES TR NASDQ BIO INDX 0.9%$45.6m594,000 6% added
35 ALCON INC 0.9%$42.5m260,900 78% added
36 LIBERTY MEDIA CORP NEW ENT 0.8%$39.6m1,634,600 -45% reduced
37 ALKERMES INC 0.8%$39.0m3,152,500 0% held
38 SEALY CORP 0.7%$36.2m6,308,200 -3% reduced
39 PHARMACEUTICAL HLDRS TR 0.7%$35.0m518,700 new
40 OSI PHARMACEUTICALS INC 0.7%$33.1m801,200 7% added
41 STARWOOD HOTELS&RESORTS WRLD 0.6%$31.5m785,400 -30% reduced
42 FDX FEDEX CORP Industrials 0.6%$30.9m392,600 -78% reduced
43 TV GRUPO TELEVISA SA DE CV SP 0.6%$30.2m1,277,812 -58% reduced
44 TIBCO SOFTWARE INC 0.6%$29.2m3,820,000 new
45 BARD C R INC 0.6%$28.8m327,183 new
46 PINNACLE ENTMT INC 0.6%$28.5m2,715,000 new
47 ARCH CAP GROUP LTD 0.6%$28.4m428,232 -78% reduced
48 METROPCS COMMUNICATIONS INC 0.5%$22.5m1,272,200 22% added
49 MDS INC 0.4%$21.4m1,317,207 -72% reduced
50 NATIONAL CITY CORP 0.3%$16.1m3,375,000 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.