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Viking Global Investors 13F holdings, Q2 2008

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

Viking Global Investors disclosed 43 US equity positions worth $5.1bn in its Q2 2008 13F filing. The largest position was Apollo Group, Inc at 13.0% of the reported book, followed by IVZ and KR. Against the Q1 2008 filing, it opened 20 new positions, added to 11 and reduced 9 among the top 43 holdings.

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What did Viking Global Investors own in Q2 2008? Top 43 positions

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesvs Q1 2008
1 Apollo Group, Inc 13.0%$663.5m14,990,600 new
2 IVZ Invesco Limited Financial Services 9.6%$491.4m20,494,100 3% added
3 KR Kroger Co Consumer Defensive 7.9%$403.2m13,966,800 149% added
4 QCOM Qualcomm Inc Technology 7.6%$388.9m8,765,400 -37% reduced
5 Transocean Inc 5.6%$284.5m1,867,000 40% added
6 DVA DaVita Inc Healthcare 5.4%$273.6m5,149,700 61% added
7 Priceline.com 4.7%$237.3m2,054,900 9% added
8 MA Mastercard Inc Financial Services 4.4%$222.8m839,000 -69% reduced
9 Aon Corp 3.9%$201.3m4,381,000 -8% reduced
10 Plains Exploration & Production 3.4%$171.8m2,354,000 -18% reduced
11 VIAB Viacom Inc 3.1%$156.2m5,115,000 new
12 Weatherford Intl Ltd 2.6%$133.4m2,690,000 15% added
13 MSCI MSCI Inc Financial Services 2.6%$133.1m3,667,800 292% added
14 NII Holdings Inc 2.6%$132.1m2,781,000 -32% reduced
15 PRU Prudential Financial INC Financial Services 2.3%$118.7m1,987,000 new
16 Staples Inc 2.3%$114.7m4,831,000 60% added
17 Southwestern Energy 2.1%$106.0m2,227,000 -36% reduced
18 KEY Key Corp Financial Services 1.8%$93.1m8,475,000 new
19 FHN First Horizon National Corp Financial Services 1.5%$74.3m10,000,000 new
20 Massey Energy Company 1.2%$63.1m673,100 new
21 SAIC Inc 1.2%$59.6m2,865,000 new
22 Macrovision Solutions Corp 1.1%$58.0m3,876,450 new
23 IHS Inc 1.1%$57.2m822,200 new
24 Frontier Oil Corp 1.1%$56.2m2,350,000 88% added
25 St Jude Medical Inc 1.1%$56.0m1,370,000 new
26 ITT Educational Services Inc 1.0%$51.3m620,500 new
27 SHW The Sherwin-Williams Company Basic Materials 0.9%$45.1m983,000 -35% reduced
28 HO1 Hologic Inc 0.8%$42.0m1,925,000 958% added
29 ILMN Illumina Inc Healthcare 0.8%$41.3m473,600 -63% reduced
30 Google Inc 0.8%$39.5m75,000 new
31 American Medical Sys 0.7%$35.5m2,376,000 -15% reduced
32 HUM Humana Inc Healthcare 0.5%$24.3m610,000 new
33 DAL Delta Air Lines Industrials 0.5%$23.5m4,119,100 new
34 MCK McKesson Corp Healthcare 0.2%$11.7m208,500 new
35 Och-Ziff Capital Management 0.2%$9.5m500,000 0% held
36 National Financial Partners Corp 0.2%$8.8m453,500 new
37 Federal Mogul Corp 0.1%$4.1m254,000 0% held
38 MTD Mettler-Toledo International Inc Healthcare 0.1%$3.9m40,700 new
39 R.H. Donnelley Corp 0.1%$3.7m1,230,000 new
40 Monster Worldwide Inc 0.1%$2.8m135,000 123% added
41 Idearc Inc 0.0%$987.0k420,000 new
42 Palm Inc 0.0%$548.0k101,798 0% held
43 CMGI Inc 0.0%$1.0k146 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.