Seth Klarman: Top 10 Holdings, New Buys, Sold Out Positions

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One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time here at The Acquirer’s Multiple digging through these 13F-HR documents to find out which superinvestors hold positions in the stocks listed in our Stock Screeners.

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As a new weekly feature, we’re now providing the top 10 holdings, new additions to the portfolio, and sold out positions from some of our favorite superinvestors based on their latest 13F-HR documents.

This week we’ll take a look at Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group LLC, (6-30-2018):

Klarman currently holds 31 stocks.

The current market value of his portfolio is $11.437 Billion.

His top 10 positions make up 77% of his portfolio.

Telsa Inc

Seth Klarman acquired an additional $200 million of Tesla Inc. convertible bonds during the second quarter of 2018. This is in addition to the $50 million of the same Tesla convertibles bought during the first quarter 2018. That equates to $250 million as of June 30, 2018. Tesla issued the bonds in March of last year, they carry a coupon of 2.375 percent, and mature in March of 2022.

Top 10 Positions

Security Current Current Value
Shares (USD x1000)
FOX / Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. 39,415,829 1,958,573
SYF / Synchrony Financial 29,295,030 977,868
LNG / Cheniere Energy, Inc. 14,196,135 925,446
VSAT / ViaSat, Inc. 13,732,068 902,472
QRVO / Qorvo, Inc. 11,000,000 881,870
AGN / Allergan plc 4,950,000 825,264
PXD / Pioneer Natural Resources Co. 4,000,000 756,960
FOXA / Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. 13,606,260 670,380
AR / Antero Resources Corporation 26,587,791 567,649
CLNY/Colony Capital Inc 49,687,370 310,049

New Additions

Security Current
Shares
Current Value
(USD x1000)
T / AT & T, Inc. 9,480,700 304,425
TRCO / Tribune Media Company 2,996,042 114,659
SBGI / Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. 2,571,302 82,667
TBIO/Translate Bio Inc 1,923,076 24,327
SHPG / Shire Plc. 98,932 16,700

Sold Out

Security Prev
Shares
Prev Value
(USD x1000)
TWX / Time Warner, Inc. 8,100,000 766,098
PBF / PBF Energy, Inc. 7,924,175 268,630
IMOS/ChipMOS Technologies Inc 933,658 14,798
FWP / Forward Pharma A/S 2,848,003 6,180
OREXQ / Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. 2,226,839 465

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