Seth Klarman’s Protege David Abrams: 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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Seth Klarman David Abrams

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 David Abrams (6-30-2018):

The current market value of his portfolio is $3,594,895,000.

Top 10 Positions

Security Current
Shares
Current Value
($)
TEVA / Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 19,743,123 480,153,000
WU / Western Union Co. (The) 21,351,798 434,082,000
AET / Aetna, Inc. 1,575,000 289,013,000
YHOO / Yahoo! Inc. 3,822,305 279,831,000
BEN / Franklin Resources, Inc. 7,945,023 254,638,000
ORLY / O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. 883,194 241,615,000
UHAL / AMERCO 576,045 205,158,000
ESRX / Express Scripts Holding Co. 2,653,101 204,846,000
WLTW / Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company 1,183,287 179,386,000
PCG / PG&E Corp. 3,911,357 166,467,000

Top New Positions

Security Current
Shares
Current Value
($)
ESRX / Express Scripts Holding Co. 2,653,101 204,846,000
GOOGL / Alphabet Inc. 124,117 140,152,000

Sold Out Positions

Security Current
Shares
Current Value
($)
TWX / Time Warner, Inc. 3,346,103 316,474,000

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