N-Q 1 edgar_n-q.htm QUARTERLY NOTICE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 29, 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:  October 31, 2016



Date of reporting period:  July 31, 2016


Item 1. Schedules of Investments.
Edgar Lomax Value Fund
Schedule of Investments
July 31, 2016 (Unaudited)
 
Shares
 
COMMON STOCKS - 98.31%
 
Value
   
Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing - 0.84%
   
 
4,050
 
Altria Group, Inc.
 
$
274,185
 
8,500
 
Coca-Cola Co.
   
370,855
           
645,040
     
Broadcasting (except Internet) - 0.39%
     
 
4,500
 
Comcast Corp. - Class A
   
302,625
     
Chemical Manufacturing - 14.03%
     
 
6,200
 
AbbVie, Inc.
   
410,626
 
47,100
 
Dow Chemical Co.
   
2,527,857
 
11,300
 
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
   
898,011
 
62,100
 
Merck & Co., Inc.
   
3,642,786
 
90,302
 
Pfizer, Inc.
   
3,331,241
           
10,810,521
     
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing - 6.86%
     
 
76,500
 
Cisco Systems, Inc.
   
2,335,545
 
28,600
 
Intel Corp.
   
996,996
 
7,300
 
QUALCOMM, Inc.
   
456,834
 
10,700
 
Raytheon Co.
   
1,492,971
           
5,282,346
     
Couriers and Messengers - 0.53%
     
 
3,800
 
United Parcel Service, Inc. - Class B
   
410,780
     
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities - 5.87%
     
 
27,700
 
Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
   
1,091,380
 
10,100
 
Capital One Financial Corp.
   
677,508
 
17,300
 
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
   
1,106,681
 
34,400
 
Wells Fargo & Co.
   
1,650,168
           
4,525,737
     
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing - 1.66%
     
 
22,900
 
Emerson Electric Co.
   
1,280,110
     
Food Manufacturing - 1.70%
     
 
29,700
 
Mondelez International, Inc. - Class A
   
1,306,206
     
Food Services and Drinking Places - 0.47%
     
 
3,100
 
McDonald's Corp.
   
364,715
     
General Merchandise Stores - 8.36%
     
 
35,100
 
Target Corp.
   
2,644,083
 
52,000
 
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
   
3,794,440
           
6,438,523
     
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities - 10.50%
     
 
47,000
 
Allstate Corp.
   
3,211,510
 
18,400
 
American International Group, Inc.
   
1,001,696
 
7,600
 
MetLife, Inc.
   
324,824
 
24,800
 
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
   
3,551,360
           
8,089,390
     
Machinery Manufacturing - 4.41%
     
 
26,800
 
Caterpillar, Inc.
   
2,217,968
 
11,700
 
General Electric Co.
   
364,338
 
7,600
 
United Technologies Corp.
   
818,140
           
3,400,446
     
Merchant Wholesalers, Non-Durable Goods - 2.56%
     
 
23,000
 
Procter & Gamble Co.
   
1,968,570

 
     
Miscellaneous Manufacturing - 1.11%
     
 
4,800
 
3M Co.
   
856,128
     
Oil and Gas Extraction - 1.54%
     
 
20,500
 
Devon Energy Corp.
   
784,740
 
5,400
 
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
   
403,542
           
1,188,282
     
Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing - 8.64%
     
 
28,400
 
Chevron Corp.
   
2,910,432
 
42,100
 
Exxon Mobil Corp.
   
3,744,795
           
6,655,227
     
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services - 3.21%
     
 
7,000
 
Amgen, Inc.
   
1,204,210
 
7,900
 
International Business Machines Corp.
   
1,268,898
           
2,473,108
     
Rail Transportation - 2.03%
     
 
7,800
 
Norfolk Southern Corp.
   
700,284
 
9,300
 
Union Pacific Corp.
   
865,365
           
1,565,649
     
Real Estate - 0.56%
     
 
1,900
 
Simon Property Group, Inc.
   
431,376
     
Support Activities for Mining - 1.63%
     
 
7,800
 
ConocoPhillips
   
318,396
 
21,400
 
Halliburton Co.
   
934,324
           
1,252,720
     
Telecommunications - 5.55%
     
 
10,600
 
AT&T, Inc.
   
458,874
 
68,900
 
Verizon Communications, Inc.
   
3,817,749
           
4,276,623
     
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing - 8.06%
     
 
6,700
 
Boeing Co.
   
895,522
 
25,900
 
Ford Motor Co.
   
327,894
 
13,600
 
General Dynamics Corp.
   
1,997,704
 
18,200
 
General Motors Co.
   
574,028
 
11,000
 
Honeywell International, Inc.
   
1,279,630
 
4,500
 
Lockheed Martin Corp.
   
1,137,285
           
6,212,063
     
Utilities - 7.80%
     
 
106,500
 
Exelon Corp.
   
3,970,320
 
24,400
 
Kinder Morgan, Inc.
   
496,052
 
28,800
 
Southern Co.
   
1,540,800
           
6,007,172
             
     
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $68,726,033)
   
75,743,357
             
Shares
 
MONEY MARKET FUNDS - 5.22%
 
Value
 
194,079
 
Morgan Stanley Institutional Liquidity Fund - Government Portfolio, 0.25% (a)
   
194,079
 
3,829,895
 
Invesco STIT-Treasury Portfolio - Institutional Class, 0.23% (a)
   
3,829,895
     
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $4,023,974)
   
4,023,974
             
     
Total Investments in Securities (Cost $72,750,007) - 103.53%
   
79,767,331
     
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets - (3.53)%
   
(2,718,088)
     
TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.00%
 
$
77,049,243
 
     
(a) Rate shown is the 7-day annualized yield as of July 31, 2016.
     

Edgar Lomax Value Fund
Notes to Schedule of Investments
July 31, 2016 (Unaudited)

Note 1 – Securities Valuation

The Edgar Lomax Value Fund’s (the “Fund”) investments are carried at their fair value. The Fund determines the fair value of its investments and computes its net 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. 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 Fund has 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 July 31, 2016:

   
Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
   
Total
 
Common Stocks
                       
  Accommodation and Food
      Services
 
$
364,715
   
$
-
   
$
-
   
$
364,715
 
  Finance and Insurance
   
13,046,503
     
-
     
-
     
13,046,503
 
  Information
   
4,579,248
     
-
     
-
     
4,579,248
 
  Manufacturing
   
36,448,087
     
-
     
-
     
36,448,087
 
  Mining, Quarrying, and Oil
       and Gas Extraction
   
2,441,002
     
-
     
-
     
2,441,002
 
  Professional, Scientific, and
       Technical Services
   
2,473,108
     
-
     
-
     
2,473,108
 
  Retail Trade
   
6,438,523
     
-
     
-
     
6,438,523
 
  Transportation and Warehousing
   
1,976,429
     
-
     
-
     
1,976,429
 
  Utilities
   
6,007,172
     
-
     
-
     
6,007,172
 
  Wholesale Trade
   
1,968,570
     
-
     
-
     
1,968,570
 
Total Common Stocks
   
75,743,357
     
-
     
-
     
75,743,357
 
Money Market Funds
   
4,023,974
     
-
     
-
     
4,023,974
 
Total Investments in Securities
 
$
79,767,331
   
$
-
   
$
-
   
$
79,767,331
 


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 July 31, 2016, the end of the reporting period.  The Fund recognized no transfers to/from Level 1 or Level 2.  There were no Level 3 securities held in the Fund during the period ended July 31, 2016.

Note 2 – Federal Income Taxes

The cost basis of investments for federal income tax purposes at July 31, 2016 was as follows*:


Cost of investments
 
$
72,799,289
 
         
Gross unrealized appreciation
   
8,809,495
 
Gross unrealized depreciation
   
(1,841,453
)
Net unrealized appreciation
 
$
6,968,042
 


* Because tax adjustments are calculated annually, the above table reflects 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 or semi-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  9/27/2016                                                                                   



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  9/27/2016                                                                                   

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

 
Date  9/27/2016                                                                                  

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