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Markel Group 13F holdings, Q4 2007

Holdings as of December 31, 2007 · filings on SEC EDGAR · latest filing →

Markel Group disclosed 72 US equity positions worth $747.9m in its Q4 2007 13F filing. The largest position was Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd at 12.2% of the reported book, followed by Forest City Enterprises Class and RLI.

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What did Markel Group own in Q4 2007? Top 50 positions

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesvs prior
1 Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd 12.2%$91.4m319,459
2 Forest City Enterprises Class 4.8%$36.1m813,133
3 RLI RLI Corporation Financial Services 4.8%$35.9m631,475
4 GD General Dynamics Industrials 4.7%$35.1m394,287
5 Exxon Corporation 4.6%$34.3m366,493
6 W.P. Carey 4.2%$31.7m956,000
7 LandAmerica Financial Group 4.2%$31.1m930,500
8 XL Capital 3.9%$29.0m576,608
9 BAC Bank of America Financial Services 2.9%$21.7m525,000
10 CINF Cincinnati Financial Financial Services 2.9%$21.4m540,799
11 BF/A Brown Forman 2.8%$21.3m284,660
12 McGraw-Hill Companies 2.8%$21.1m482,600
13 UPS United Parcel Service Industrials 2.6%$19.8m280,000
14 White Mountains 2.5%$19.0m36,975
15 GE General Electric Industrials 2.3%$16.9m455,000
16 Plum Creek Lumber MLP 2.2%$16.5m359,200
17 Berkshire Hathaway 2.2%$16.2m3,425
18 BRK/A Berkshire Hathaway, Inc 2.0%$14.9m105
19 FNF Fidelity National Financial Financial Services 2.0%$14.6m1,000,000
20 ADP Automatic Data Processing Technology 1.8%$13.7m307,200
21 ELME Washington Real Estate Investm Real Estate 1.7%$12.9m411,775
22 ITW Illinois Tool Works Industrials 1.5%$11.2m210,000
23 MBI MBIA Inc Financial Services 1.5%$11.0m589,767
24 International Game Technology 1.5%$11.0m250,000
25 CMCSA Comcast Communication Services 1.4%$10.2m557,500
26 CAT Caterpillar Inc Industrials 1.3%$9.8m135,000
27 Allied Capital 1.3%$9.4m438,540
28 ITIC Investors Title Company Financial Services 1.2%$8.8m230,150
29 MO Altria Consumer Defensive 1.2%$8.8m116,700
30 BRO Brown & Brown Financial Services 1.1%$8.6m365,628
31 International Speedway 0.9%$6.9m168,650
32 Brookfield Asset Management 0.9%$6.5m182,205
33 News Corporation 0.9%$6.4m301,850
34 Citigroup 0.8%$6.0m205,000
35 MAR Marriott International Consumer Cyclical 0.7%$5.3m155,000
36 JNJ Johnson and Johnson Healthcare 0.7%$5.0m75,000
37 Washington Post Co 0.6%$4.3m5,425
38 Tiffany 0.5%$3.7m80,600
39 Corus Bankshares 0.5%$3.6m334,000
40 Leucadia National Corp 0.5%$3.5m75,000
41 Meadowbrook Insurance Company 0.4%$3.3m353,600
42 WMT Wal-Mart Stores Consumer Defensive 0.4%$3.3m70,000
43 STT State Street Corp Financial Services 0.4%$3.3m40,400
44 KMX Carmax Consumer Cyclical 0.4%$3.2m160,000
45 SYY Sysco Corp Consumer Defensive 0.4%$2.7m85,000
46 DEO Diageo PLC Consumer Defensive 0.3%$2.6m30,000
47 PEP Pepsico Consumer Defensive 0.3%$2.5m33,500
48 AFL Aflac Financial Services 0.3%$2.5m40,000
49 VLY Valley National Bank Financial Services 0.3%$2.4m128,483
50 NuStar GP Holdings 0.3%$2.3m80,000

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.