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Markel Group 13F holdings, Q4 2009

Holdings as of December 31, 2009 · filings on SEC EDGAR · latest filing →

Markel Group disclosed 76 US equity positions worth $631.4m in its Q4 2009 13F filing. The largest position was Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd at 17.3% of the reported book, followed by RLI and Level 3 Communications CONV. Against the Q3 2009 filing, it opened 1 new position, added to 8 and reduced 1 among the top 50 holdings.

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What did Markel Group own in Q4 2009? Top 50 positions

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesvs Q3 2009
1 Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd 17.3%$109.0m279,459 0% held
2 RLI RLI Corporation Financial Services 5.2%$33.0m619,016 0% held
3 Level 3 Communications CONV 4.9%$30.8m25,000,000 0% held
4 BRK/A Berkshire Hathaway, Inc 4.3%$27.3m275 0% held
5 GD General Dynamics Industrials 4.2%$26.8m392,723 -0% held
6 Berkshire Hathaway 4.0%$25.3m7,702 0% held
7 W.P. Carey 3.8%$24.0m865,500 1% added
8 DEO Diageo PLC Consumer Defensive 3.6%$22.8m328,500 0% held
9 JNJ Johnson and Johnson Healthcare 2.9%$18.0m280,000 0% held
10 BF/A Brown Forman 2.5%$16.0m283,860 0% held
11 NuStar GP Holdings 2.5%$15.8m586,300 0% held
12 EXMOC Exxon Corporation 2.2%$13.6m199,800 0% held
13 ADP Automatic Data Processing Technology 2.1%$13.5m316,200 2% added
14 CAT Caterpillar Inc Industrials 2.1%$13.5m236,300 0% held
15 White Mountains 2.0%$12.5m37,600 0% held
16 ITW Illinois Tool Works Industrials 1.8%$11.7m243,034 0% held
17 ELME Washington Real Estate Investm Real Estate 1.8%$11.2m407,475 0% held
18 NVO Novo-Nordisk A/S Healthcare 1.7%$10.6m166,500 new
19 SCHW Charles Schwab Financial Services 1.6%$10.0m530,900 5% added
20 Leucadia National Corp 1.6%$10.0m418,400 18% added
21 Forest City Enterprises Class 1.6%$9.9m843,767 -0% held
22 MCD McDonalds Consumer Cyclical 1.2%$7.7m122,601 297% added
23 EMR Emerson Electric Industrials 1.2%$7.5m175,400 0% held
24 NTRS Northern Trust Corp Financial Services 1.2%$7.3m140,000 0% held
25 ITIC Investors Title Company Financial Services 1.1%$7.1m228,850 0% held
26 Brookfield Asset Management 1.1%$6.7m300,000 0% held
27 DIS Disney Communication Services 1.0%$6.5m200,000 0% held
28 FNF Fidelity National Financial Financial Services 1.0%$6.3m468,850 0% held
29 WMT Wal-Mart Stores Consumer Defensive 1.0%$6.2m116,425 0% held
30 McGraw-Hill Companies 0.9%$5.7m170,000 -13% reduced
31 Plum Creek Lumber MLP 0.9%$5.7m150,000 0% held
32 PM Philip Morris International Consumer Defensive 0.9%$5.6m116,700 0% held
33 ITC Holdings Corp 0.9%$5.4m103,200 140% added
34 MAR Marriott International Consumer Cyclical 0.8%$5.0m181,965 0% held
35 AFL Aflac Financial Services 0.8%$4.9m105,000 0% held
36 International Game Technology 0.7%$4.7m250,000 0% held
37 Walgreen 0.7%$4.7m127,260 0% held
38 SAP SAP Aktiengesellschaft Technology 0.7%$4.6m97,500 0% held
39 GE General Electric Industrials 0.7%$4.5m295,000 0% held
40 SLB Schlumberger Energy 0.7%$4.3m66,000 16% added
41 UPS United Parcel Service Industrials 0.6%$4.0m69,520 0% held
42 KMX Carmax Consumer Cyclical 0.6%$3.9m160,000 0% held
43 BF/B Brown-Forman 0.6%$3.8m70,915 -0% held
44 NKE Nike Consumer Cyclical 0.5%$3.3m50,200 0% held
45 BRO Brown & Brown Financial Services 0.5%$3.2m180,000 0% held
46 Patterson Companies Inc 0.4%$2.5m89,800 125% added
47 SYY Sysco Corp Consumer Defensive 0.4%$2.4m85,000 0% held
48 Washington Post Co 0.4%$2.4m5,400 0% held
49 MO Altria Consumer Defensive 0.4%$2.3m116,700 0% held
50 LOW Lowes Consumer Cyclical 0.4%$2.2m95,000 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.