N-Q 1 davidson-ast_nq.htm QUARTERLY NOTICE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS

 
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27 2016
 



UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549


 
FORM N-Q
 
 
QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY
 




Investment Company Act file number  811-07959



Advisors Series Trust
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)



615 East Michigan Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)


Douglas G. Hess, President
Advisors Series Trust
c/o U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC
777 East Wisconsin Avenue, 5th Floor
Milwaukee, WI 53202


(Name and address of agent for service)


(414) 765-6609
Registrant's telephone number, including area code



Date of fiscal year end: June 30, 2016



Date of reporting period:  March 31, 2016

 

Item 1. Schedules of Investments.
 
Davidson Multi Cap Equity Fund
   
Schedule of Investments
   
March 31, 2016 (Unaudited)
   
         
 
Shares
 
COMMON STOCKS - 94.78%
 
Value
 
   
Aerospace & Defense - 1.90%
     
 
19,380
 
United Technologies Corp.
 
$
1,939,938
 
               
     
Air Freight & Logistics - 1.42%
       
 
8,955
 
Fedex Corp.
   
1,457,158
 
               
     
Automobiles - 1.42%
       
 
107,970
 
Ford Motor Co.
   
1,457,595
 
               
     
Banks - 6.86%
       
 
28,375
 
First Republic Bank
   
1,890,910
 
 
45,035
 
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
   
2,666,973
 
 
50,960
 
Wells Fargo & Co.
   
2,464,425
 
           
7,022,308
 
     
Beverages - 2.17%
       
 
21,645
 
PepsiCo, Inc.
   
2,218,180
 
               
     
Biotechnology - 3.70%
       
 
11,795
 
Amgen, Inc.
   
1,768,424
 
 
21,940
 
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
   
2,015,409
 
           
3,783,833
 
     
Capital Markets - 3.52%
       
 
61,860
 
Morgan Stanley
   
1,547,118
 
 
35,140
 
State Street Corp.
   
2,056,393
 
           
3,603,511
 
     
Chemicals - 3.77%
       
 
33,305
 
E.I. du pont de Nemours & Co.
   
2,108,873
 
 
15,250
 
Praxair, Inc.
   
1,745,362
 
           
3,854,235
 
     
Communications Equipment - 2.12%
       
 
76,310
 
Cisco Systems, Inc.
   
2,172,546
 
               
     
Diversified Telecommunication Services - 1.97%
       
 
38,074
 
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (a)
   
2,012,211
 
               
     
Electrical Equipment - 2.04%
       
 
33,305
 
Eaton Corp PLC (b)
   
2,083,561
 
               
     
Energy Equipment & Services - 1.16%
       
 
27,195
 
Baker Hughes, Inc.
   
1,191,957
 
               
     
Food & Staples Retailing - 3.48%
       
 
53,210
 
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (a)
   
1,545,218
 
 
49,950
 
United National Foods, Inc. (a)
   
2,012,985
 
           
3,558,203
 
     
Food Products - 1.56%
       
 
25,235
 
General Mills, Inc.
   
1,598,637
 
 

               
     
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 4.27%
       
 
16,305
 
Becton, Dickinson & Co.
   
2,475,425
 
 
54,185
 
Haemonetics Corp. (a)
   
1,895,391
 
           
4,370,816
 
     
Health Care Providers & Services - 4.22%
       
 
29,717
 
Express Scripts Holding Co. (a)
   
2,041,261
 
 
19,470
 
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (a)
   
2,280,521
 
           
4,321,782
 
     
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 2.02%
       
 
13,965
 
Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. (a)
   
2,068,496
 
               
     
Household Durables - 0.99%
       
 
33,575
 
D.R. Horton, Inc.
   
1,014,972
 
               
     
Household Products - 1.86%
       
 
20,685
 
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
   
1,906,743
 
               
     
Industrial Conglomerates - 3.73%
       
 
10,440
 
3M Co.
   
1,739,617
 
 
65,205
 
General Electric Co.
   
2,072,867
 
           
3,812,484
 
     
Insurance - 1.63%
       
 
42,210
 
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
   
1,665,184
 
               
     
Internet Software & Services - 3.86%
       
 
794
 
Alphabet, Inc. - Class A (a)
   
605,742
 
 
4,483
 
Alphabet, Inc. - Class C (a)
   
3,339,611
 
           
3,945,353
 
     
Life Sciences Tools & Services - 2.20%
       
 
17,035
 
Waters Corp. (a)
   
2,247,257
 
               
     
Machinery - 1.89%
       
 
43,660
 
Flowserve Corp.
   
1,938,941
 
               
     
Media - 7.16%
       
 
104,330
 
Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc.
   
2,394,374
 
 
14,360
 
Time Warner Cable, Inc.
   
2,938,343
 
 
71,565
 
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. - Class A
   
1,995,232
 
           
7,327,949
 
     
Multi-Utilities - 2.49%
       
 
24,460
 
Sempra Energy
   
2,545,063
 
               
     
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 5.37%
       
 
16,449
 
Chevron Corp.
   
1,569,235
 
 
50,355
 
Devon Energy Corp New
   
1,381,741
 
 
21,735
 
Exxon Mobil Corp.
   
1,816,829
 
 
65,180
 
Marathon Oil Corp.
   
726,105
 
           
5,493,910
 
     
Professional Services - 2.25%
       
 
43,775
 
Nielsen Holdings PLC (b)
   
2,305,192
 
               
 

     
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 2.34%
       
 
53,315
 
Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (a)
   
2,397,042
 
               
     
Software - 6.64%
       
 
54,045
 
Fleetmatics Group PLC (a)(b)
   
2,200,172
 
 
71,425
 
Fortinet, Inc. (a)
   
2,187,748
 
 
23,095
 
Intuit
   
2,402,111
 
           
6,790,031
 
     
Specialty Retail - 1.83%
       
 
40,160
 
Dicks Sporting Goods, Inc.
   
1,877,480
 
               
     
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 2.94%
       
 
27,641
 
Apple, Inc.
   
3,012,593
 
               
     
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $76,624,200)
   
96,995,161
 
               
     
REITS - 3.55%
       
     
Financials - 3.55%
       
 
118,010
 
Redwood Trust, Inc.
   
1,543,571
 
 
110,055
 
Starwood Property Trust, Inc.
   
2,083,341
 
     
TOTAL REITS (Cost $4,307,665)
   
3,626,912
 
               
     
MONEY MARKET FUNDS - 1.72%
       
     
Funds, Trusts, & Other Financial Vehicles - 1.72%
       
 
1,764,201
 
Fidelity Institutional Government Portfolio - Class I, 0.23% (c)
   
1,764,201
 
     
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $1,764,201)
   
1,764,201
 
               
     
Total Investments in Securities (Cost ($82,696,066) - 100.05%
   
102,386,274
 
     
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets - (0.05)%
   
(51,966
)
     
NET ASSETS - 100.00%
 
$
102,334,308
 
   
       REITs - Real Estate Investment Trusts        
     
 (a) Non-income producing security.
       
     
 (b) U.S. traded security of a foreign issuer.
       
     
 (c) Rate shown is the 7-day annualized yield as of March 31, 2016.
       
               
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI,
 
Inc. and Standard & Poor Financial Services LLC (“S&P”). GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P and has
 
been licensed for use by U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC.
   
 
 

Davidson Multi-Cap Equity Fund
Notes to the Schedule of Investments
March 31, 2016 (Unaudited)

Note 1 – Securities Valuation
 
The Davidson Multi-Cap Equity Fund’s (the “Fund”) investments in securities are carried at their fair value. The Fund determines the fair value of its investments and computes its asset value per share as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (4:00 pm EST).
 
Equity securities that are primarily traded on a national securities exchange shall be valued at the last sales price on the exchange on which they are primarily traded on the day of valuation or, if there has been no sale price on such day, at the mean between the bid and asked prices. Securities primarily traded in the NASDAQ Global Market System for which market quotations are readily available shall be valued using the NASDAQ Official Closing Price (“NOCP”). If the NOCP is not available, such securities shall be valued at the last sale price on the day of valuation, or if there has been no sale on such day, at the mean between the bid and asked prices. Over-the-counter securities which are not traded in the NASDAQ Global Market System shall be valued at the most recent sales price. Investments in open-end mutual funds are valued at their net asset value per share. To the extent these securities are actively traded and valuation adjustments are not applied, they are categorized in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.
 
Short-term debt securities, including those securities having a maturity of 60 days or less, are valued at the evaluated mean between the bid and asked prices.  To the extent the inputs are observable and timely, these securities would be classified in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.
 
The Board of Trustees (“Board) has delegated day-to-day valuation issues to a Valuation Committee of the Advisors Series Trust which is comprised of representatives from U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, the Fund’s administrator.  The function of the Valuation Committee is to value securities where current and reliable market quotations are not readily available or the closing price does not represent fair value by following procedures approved by the Board.  These procedures consider many factors, including the type of security, size of holding, trading volume and news events.  All actions taken by the Valuation Committee are subsequently reviewed and ratified by the Board.
 
Depending on the relative significance of the valuation inputs, fair valued securities may be classified in either Level 2 or Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.
 
The Fund has adopted authoritative fair value accounting standards which establish an authoritative definition of fair value and set out a hierarchy for measuring fair value.  These standards require additional disclosures about the various inputs and valuation techniques used to develop the measurements of fair value, a discussion in changes in valuation techniques and related inputs during the period and expanded disclosure of valuation levels for majority security types.  These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
 
·
Level 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Funds have the ability to access.
 
·
Level 2 - Observable inputs other than quoted prices included in level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly.  These inputs may include quoted prices for the identical instrument on an inactive market, prices for similar instruments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, default rates and similar data.
 
·
Level 3 - Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability, to the extent relevant observable inputs are not available, representing the Fund’s own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in valuing the asset or liability, and would be based on the best information available.
 
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.  The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Fund’s securities as of March 31, 2016:
 

 
   
Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
   
Total
 
Common Stocks
                       
  Consumer Discretionary
 
$
13,746,492
   
$
-
   
$
-
   
$
13,746,492
 
  Consumer Staples
   
9,281,764
     
-
     
-
     
9,281,764
 
  Energy
   
6,685,866
     
-
     
-
     
6,685,866
 
  Financials
   
12,291,004
     
-
     
-
     
12,291,004
 
  Health Care
   
14,723,688
     
-
     
-
     
14,723,688
 
  Industrials
   
13,537,273
     
-
     
-
     
13,537,273
 
  Information Technology
   
18,317,565
     
-
     
-
     
18,317,565
 
  Materials
   
3,854,235
     
-
     
-
     
3,854,235
 
  Telecommunication Services
   
2,012,211
     
-
     
-
     
2,012,211
 
  Utilities
   
2,545,063
     
-
     
-
     
2,545,063
 
Total Common Stocks
   
96,995,161
     
-
     
-
     
96,995,161
 
REITs
                               
  Financials
   
3,626,912
     
-
     
-
     
3,626,912
 
Total REITs
   
3,626,912
     
-
     
-
     
3,626,912
 
Short-Term Investments
   
1,764,201
     
-
     
-
     
1,764,201
 
Total Investments in Securities
 
$
102,386,274
   
$
-
   
$
-
   
$
102,386,274
 
 
Refer to the Fund’s schedule of investments for a detailed break-out of common stocks by industry classification. Transfers between levels are recognized at March 31, 2016, the end of the reporting period. The Fund recognized no transfers between levels. There were no Level 3 securities held in the Fund during the period ended March 31, 2016.

Note 2 – Federal Income Taxes

The cost basis of investments for federal income tax purposes at March 31, 2016 was as follows*:
 
Cost of investments
 
$
82,721,546
 
         
Gross unrealized appreciation
 
$
25,821,095
 
Gross unrealized depreciation
   
(6,156,791
)
Net unrealized appreciation
 
$
19,664,304
 

*Because tax adjustments are calculated annually, the above tables reflect the tax adjustments outstanding at the Fund’s previous fiscal year end.  For the previous fiscal year's federal income tax information, please refer to the Notes to Financial Statements section in the Fund’s most recent annual report.

Item 2. Controls and Procedures.
(a)
The Registrant’s President/Principal Executive Officer and Treasurer/Principal Financial Officer have concluded that the Registrant's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (the “1940 Act”)) (17 CFR 270.30a-3(c)) are effective as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of the report that includes the disclosure required by this paragraph, based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(b)) and Rule 13a-15(b) or Rule 15d‑15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (17 CFR 240.13a-15(b) or 240.15d-15(d)).

(b)
There were no changes in the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act) (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d))  that occurred during the Registrant's last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

 
Item 3. Exhibits.
 
Separate certifications for each principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the Registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the 1940 Act (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)).  Filed herewith.
 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.


(Registrant)  Advisors Series Trust

By (Signature and Title)*   s/ Douglas G. Hess
           Douglas G. Hess, President

Date: 04/26/2016



Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

By (Signature and Title)*   /s/ Douglas G. Hess
   Douglas G. Hess, President

Date: 04/26/2016

By (Signature and Title)*   /s/ Cheryl L. King
   Cheryl L. King, Treasurer

Date: 04/26/2016


* Print the name and title of each signing officer under his or her signature.