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Steal These Stock Ideas

Boy do I love the Nasdaq website.  It's so much easier to steal ideas than digging through SEC filings.  If you have not already guessed, I'm basing my portfolio on the ideas of my favorite fund managers.  I will also do some of my own stock picking but only when I think something is extremely cheap.  Here's a sampling of my stocks, which varying degrees of detail:

COP
1. Berkshire bought $505 million during Q1, their largest purchase for the quarter.
2. Davis Selected Advisors bought $633 million during Q1, their largest purchase for the quarter.
3. Dreman Value Management bought $100 million during Q1, their second largest purchase for the quarter.  COP is also their second largest holding overall and they are continuing to add.

MSFT
1. Davis Selected Advisors bought $492 million during Q1, their third largest purchase for the quarter, since then the stock has fallen and is an even better deal. 
2. Appaloosa Management bought $205 million during Q1, this is about 20% of their assets.  I read an interview with David Tepper who said this is a once in a lifetime chance to own the stock at these prices.  His top holding are highly focused in Microsoft, Cisco and Intel that he recently bought.

DELL
1. Longleaf Partners bought $236 million during Q1, their second largest purchase for the quarter.  They also bought another $700 million in the Q4 of 2005.  Prices are now substantially lower than when Longleaf was originally building their position.
2. Davis Selected Partners bought $600 million during Q4 2005, which was their largest purchase of the quarter.

MHK - Fairholme bought a good chunk Q1.
KSWS - Third Ave bought Q1.
HEW - Longtime favorite of Ariel Capital Management at very cheap prices now.
USMO - Fairholme owns 10% of this stock at prices much higher.



RE: Nasdaq

Hi Steve,

Can you post links to where you found this information on the NASDAQ site?


thanks!

-theo

Re: Nasdaq

http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/Holdings.asp?symbol=USMO&selected=USMO&page=holdingssummary

Here is a link of the top holders for USMO.  You have to click on the firm under Top 5 Holders to see exactly what they bought and sold and how much.  In this case you would click on Fairhomlme Capital Management then you can sort by Change in Value.  These are only for Q1 so the information I have from Q4 2005 is from my personal notes.  You can see Fairholme didn't add much to their USMO holdings this quarter.  I think because they already own 10% of the shares.