Top Holdings in Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global

In the third quarter, Halvorsen changed up his fund’s portfolio quite a bit. At the end of the second quarter, Halvorsen’s top holdings, in order, were Invesco (IVZ), Time Warner Cable (TWC), Estee Lauder (EL), Priceline.com (PCLN) and News Corp (NWSA). At the end of the third quarter, only two of those positions remained. Halvorsen’s top holdings at the end of September were U.S. Bancorp (USB), Invesco (IVZ), Apple (AAPL), Time Warner Cale (TWC) and H&R Block (HRB).

Viking Global’s New Purchases

AAPL is a new position for Viking Global. Halvorsen bought 1.132 million shares of the company in the third quarter. Other new positions for the fund included MasterCard (MA), Citrix Systems (CTXS), Citigroup (C), Capital One (COF), Monsanto (MON), SanDisk (SNDK) and Healthspring (HS), among others.

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