Markel Group 13F holdings, Q4 2012
Holdings as of December 31, 2012 · filings on SEC EDGAR · latest filing →
Markel Group disclosed 96 US equity positions worth $1.2bn in its Q4 2012 13F filing. The largest position was Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd at 8.2% of the reported book, followed by Walgreen and GE. Against the Q3 2012 filing, it opened 1 new position, added to 9 and reduced 4 among the top 50 holdings.
What did Markel Group own in Q4 2012? Top 50 positions
| # | Stock | Sector | Weight | Value | Shares | Δ shares | vs Q3 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd | 8.2% | $96.4m | 267,104 | 0% | held | |
| 2 | Walgreen | 6.8% | $79.7m | 2,152,460 | 0% | held | |
| 3 | GE General Electric | Industrials | 4.3% | $50.4m | 2,400,690 | 76% | added |
| 4 | Colfax Corporation | 3.7% | $43.8m | 1,085,070 | 0% | held | |
| 5 | BRK/B Berkshire Hathaway | 3.7% | $43.5m | 485,100 | 0% | held | |
| 6 | Union First Market Bankshares | 3.5% | $41.4m | 2,624,481 | -25% | reduced | |
| 7 | RLI RLI Corporation | Financial Services | 3.4% | $39.7m | 613,562 | 0% | held |
| 8 | DEO Diageo PLC | Consumer Defensive | 3.3% | $38.3m | 328,500 | 0% | held |
| 9 | NVO Novo-Nordisk A/S | Healthcare | 3.2% | $37.1m | 227,300 | -0% | held |
| 10 | BRK/A Berkshire Hathaway, Inc | 3.2% | $36.9m | 275 | 0% | held | |
| 11 | ADM Archer Daniels | Consumer Defensive | 3.1% | $36.5m | 1,334,300 | 7% | added |
| 12 | BUD Anheuser-Busch Inbev | Consumer Defensive | 3.0% | $35.0m | 400,401 | -0% | held |
| 13 | ADP Automatic Data Processing | Technology | 2.5% | $29.4m | 515,700 | -1% | reduced |
| 14 | GD General Dynamics | Industrials | 2.4% | $27.6m | 397,955 | 0% | held |
| 15 | BF/A Brown Forman | 2.2% | $26.2m | 425,640 | 0% | held | |
| 16 | TEVA Teva Pharmaceuticals | Healthcare | 2.1% | $24.1m | 644,100 | 8% | added |
| 17 | CAT Caterpillar Inc | Industrials | 1.9% | $22.0m | 246,000 | -0% | held |
| 18 | MSFT Microsoft Corp | Technology | 1.8% | $21.4m | 803,090 | 0% | held |
| 19 | JNJ Johnson and Johnson | Healthcare | 1.7% | $19.6m | 280,000 | 0% | held |
| 20 | SYY Sysco Corp | Consumer Defensive | 1.5% | $18.1m | 571,408 | 572% | added |
| 21 | Leucadia National Corp | 1.5% | $17.7m | 745,033 | 11% | added | |
| 22 | EXMOC Exxon Corporation | 1.5% | $17.3m | 199,800 | 0% | held | |
| 23 | MCD McDonalds | Consumer Cyclical | 1.4% | $16.7m | 189,611 | -0% | held |
| 24 | Brookfield Asset Management | 1.3% | $15.8m | 430,000 | 0% | held | |
| 25 | V Visa | Financial Services | 1.3% | $15.3m | 101,100 | 0% | held |
| 26 | ITW Illinois Tool Works | Industrials | 1.3% | $14.9m | 245,500 | -1% | reduced |
| 27 | SCHW Charles Schwab | Financial Services | 1.2% | $14.5m | 1,012,509 | -1% | reduced |
| 28 | ITIC Investors Title Company | Financial Services | 1.2% | $13.7m | 228,650 | 0% | held |
| 29 | LII Lennox International | Industrials | 1.1% | $13.3m | 253,500 | 0% | held |
| 30 | Artio Global Investors | 0.9% | $10.8m | 5,694,000 | 0% | held | |
| 31 | COF Capital One | Financial Services | 0.9% | $10.4m | 179,400 | 0% | held |
| 32 | SLB Schlumberger | Energy | 0.9% | $10.1m | 146,000 | 0% | held |
| 33 | DIS Disney | Communication Services | 0.9% | $10.0m | 200,000 | 0% | held |
| 34 | L Loews Corporation | Financial Services | 0.8% | $9.8m | 240,700 | 0% | held |
| 35 | PM Philip Morris International | Consumer Defensive | 0.8% | $9.8m | 116,700 | 0% | held |
| 36 | BRO Brown & Brown | Financial Services | 0.8% | $9.3m | 365,628 | 0% | held |
| 37 | EMR Emerson Electric | Industrials | 0.8% | $9.1m | 171,300 | -0% | held |
| 38 | KMX Carmax | Consumer Cyclical | 0.8% | $8.8m | 235,000 | 0% | held |
| 39 | PEP Pepsico | Consumer Defensive | 0.7% | $8.7m | 127,300 | 0% | held |
| 40 | National Oilwell | 0.7% | $8.4m | 123,000 | 17% | added | |
| 41 | WMT Wal-Mart Stores | Consumer Defensive | 0.7% | $7.9m | 116,425 | 0% | held |
| 42 | Alliance Holdings GP | 0.7% | $7.9m | 166,500 | – | new | |
| 43 | NTRS Northern Trust Corp | Financial Services | 0.6% | $7.0m | 140,000 | 0% | held |
| 44 | MAR Marriott International | Consumer Cyclical | 0.6% | $6.8m | 181,965 | 0% | held |
| 45 | BF/B Brown-Forman | 0.6% | $6.7m | 106,372 | 0% | held | |
| 46 | Plum Creek Lumber MLP | 0.6% | $6.7m | 150,000 | 0% | held | |
| 47 | NKE Nike | Consumer Cyclical | 0.5% | $6.2m | 120,400 | 103% | added |
| 48 | HAS Hasbro, Inc | Consumer Cyclical | 0.5% | $5.4m | 151,500 | 26% | added |
| 49 | EXPD Expeditors Int'l Wash Inc | Industrials | 0.4% | $5.3m | 133,000 | 23% | added |
| 50 | UPS United Parcel Service | Industrials | 0.4% | $5.1m | 69,520 | 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.