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Farallon Capital Management 13F holdings, Q3 2011

Holdings as of September 30, 2011 · filings on SEC EDGAR · latest filing →

Farallon Capital Management disclosed 53 US equity positions worth $3.0bn in its Q3 2011 13F filing. The largest position was MOTOROLA MOBILITY HLDGS INC at 13.2% of the reported book, followed by NALCO HOLDING COMPANY and OWENS ILL INC. Against the Q2 2011 filing, it opened 12 new positions, added to 9 and reduced 8 among the top 50 holdings.

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What did Farallon Capital Management own in Q3 2011? Top 50 positions

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesvs Q2 2011
1 MOTOROLA MOBILITY HLDGS INC 13.2%$399.1m10,565,000 new
2 NALCO HOLDING COMPANY 5.5%$165.2m4,724,000 new
3 OWENS ILL INC 5.1%$153.7m10,163,949 new
4 STT STATE STR CORP Financial Services 5.0%$151.4m4,707,500 53% added
5 GOODRICH CORP 4.9%$147.8m1,225,000 new
6 CMCSA COMCAST CORP NEW Communication Services 4.8%$143.9m6,885,000 64% added
7 V VISA INC Financial Services 4.7%$142.1m1,657,837 -68% reduced
8 TGT TARGET CORP Consumer Defensive 4.5%$135.1m2,755,000 -25% reduced
9 ORCL ORACLE CORP Technology 4.3%$129.0m4,490,000 -0% held
10 GD GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP Industrials 4.0%$119.8m2,105,000 54% added
11 NEWS CORP 3.3%$99.9m6,460,000 new
12 UNP UNION PAC CORP Industrials 3.0%$91.6m1,122,000 69% added
13 WFC WELLS FARGO & CO NEW Financial Services 2.4%$72.2m2,995,000 -11% reduced
14 VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMN 2.3%$70.9m1,160,000 new
15 HD HOME DEPOT INC Consumer Cyclical 2.3%$69.4m2,110,000 59% added
16 FIS FIDELITY NATL INFORMATION SV Technology 2.0%$61.4m2,525,000 5% added
17 EXPEDIA INC DEL 2.0%$60.3m2,340,000 -12% reduced
18 KINETIC CONCEPTS INC 1.8%$54.7m830,000 new
19 NETLOGIC MICROSYSTEMS INC 1.6%$49.4m1,027,500 new
20 SOUTHERN UN CO NEW 1.6%$47.1m1,159,900 53% added
21 KNOLOGY INC 1.5%$46.6m3,587,394 0% held
22 SCHW SCHWAB CHARLES CORP NEW Financial Services 1.5%$45.6m4,045,000 -37% reduced
23 CVS CVS CAREMARK CORPORATION Healthcare 1.4%$43.4m1,291,400 19% added
24 CAPITALSOURCE INC 1.4%$41.9m41,000,000 0% held
25 BAX BAXTER INTL INC Healthcare 1.3%$40.1m715,000 1% added
26 AMERICAN TOWER CORP 1.3%$39.3m730,000 new
27 MI DEVS INC 1.3%$38.0m1,430,413 -41% reduced
28 CROWN CASTLE INTL CORP 1.2%$37.4m920,000 -61% reduced
29 BLACKBOARD INC 1.0%$30.2m677,291 new
30 TOWN SPORTS INTL HLDGS INC 1.0%$29.5m4,060,082 0% held
31 CVX CHEVRON CORP NEW Energy 0.9%$28.4m306,500 0% held
32 LPL INVT HLDGS INC 0.9%$27.7m1,089,587 0% held
33 EXMOC EXXON MOBIL CORP 0.9%$27.7m381,000 0% held
34 FEI CO 0.9%$26.5m883,140 0% held
35 LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP 0.7%$20.3m527,260 0% held
36 TENET HEALTHCARE CORP 0.6%$16.9m4,082,500 0% held
37 ENERGY PARTNERS LTD 0.5%$15.7m1,421,073 0% held
38 GLOBAL INDS LTD DBCV 2.750% 8/0 0.5%$15.7m16,082,000 new
39 ENCANA CORP 0.5%$13.7m711,760 0% held
40 RDS/A ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC SPONS 0.4%$13.5m219,000 0% held
41 HCA HCA HOLDINGS INC Healthcare 0.4%$10.8m535,000 new
42 POTASH CORP SASK INC 0.3%$9.0m209,100 0% held
43 FRESH DEL MONTE PRODUCE INC 0.3%$7.7m331,690 0% held
44 CHIQUITA BRANDS INTL INC 0.2%$7.1m853,210 0% held
45 NYSE EURONEXT 0.2%$5.6m242,500 0% held
46 EBAY EBAY INC Consumer Cyclical 0.2%$5.0m168,510 0% held
47 SANOFI RIGHT 12/31/2020 0.2%$4.8m4,550,000 -18% reduced
48 ROP ROPER INDS INC NEW Technology 0.1%$4.2m61,500 0% held
49 DOLE FOOD CO INC NEW 0.1%$4.1m410,000 0% held
50 FLIR FLIR SYS INC 0.1%$3.5m141,450 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.