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

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 28, 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, 2017



Date of reporting period:  September 30, 2016


Item 1. Schedules of Investments.
 
Davidson Multi Cap Equity Fund
   
Schedule of Investments
   
September 30, 2016 (Unaudited)
   
         
Shares
 
COMMON STOCKS - 94.55%
 
Value
   
Aerospace & Defense - 1.76%
   
 
18,955
 
United Technologies Corp.
 
$
1,925,828
             
     
Air Freight & Logistics - 1.39%
     
 
8,745
 
Fedex Corp.
   
1,527,577
             
     
Banks - 6.63%
     
 
27,720
 
First Republic Bank
   
2,137,489
 
44,020
 
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
   
2,931,292
 
49,805
 
Wells Fargo & Co.
   
2,205,365
           
7,274,146
     
Beverages - 2.10%
     
 
21,150
 
PepsiCo, Inc.
   
2,300,486
             
     
Biotechnology - 6.10%
     
 
11,570
 
Amgen, Inc.
   
1,929,992
 
19,750
 
Celgene Corp. (a)
   
2,064,468
 
34,045
 
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
   
2,693,640
           
6,688,100
     
Capital Markets - 3.95%
     
 
60,520
 
Morgan Stanley
   
1,940,271
 
34,360
 
State Street Corp.
   
2,392,487
           
4,332,758
     
Chemicals - 3.63%
     
 
32,550
 
E.I. du pont de Nemours & Co.
   
2,179,873
 
14,885
 
Praxair, Inc.
   
1,798,555
           
3,978,428
     
Communications Equipment - 2.16%
     
 
74,675
 
Cisco Systems, Inc.
   
2,368,691
             
     
Diversified Telecommunication Services - 2.13%
     
 
50,274
 
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (a)
   
2,331,708
             
     
Electrical Equipment - 1.94%
     
 
32,420
 
Eaton Corp PLC (b)
   
2,130,318
             
     
Energy Equipment & Services - 1.21%
     
 
26,325
 
Baker Hughes, Inc.
   
1,328,623
             
     
Food & Staples Retailing - 3.01%
     
 
160,035
 
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (a)
   
3,304,723
             
     
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 2.01%
     
 
12,245
 
Becton, Dickinson & Co.
   
2,200,794

 
 
             
     
Health Care Providers & Services - 4.25%
     
 
29,052
 
Express Scripts Holding Co. (a)
   
2,049,037
 
19,035
 
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (a)
   
2,616,932
           
4,665,969
     
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 3.19%
     
 
13,640
 
Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. (a)
   
1,919,694
 
3,719
 
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (a)
   
1,574,996
           
3,494,690
     
Household Durables - 0.89%
     
 
32,515
 
D.R. Horton, Inc.
   
981,953
             
     
Household Products - 1.77%
     
 
40,415
 
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
   
1,936,687
             
     
Industrial Conglomerates - 3.37%
     
 
10,210
 
3M Co.
   
1,799,308
 
64,040
 
General Electric Co.
   
1,896,865
           
3,696,173
     
Insurance - 1.94%
     
 
41,265
 
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
   
2,125,560
             
     
Internet Software & Services - 3.66%
     
 
759
 
Alphabet, Inc. - Class A (a)
   
610,281
 
4,378
 
Alphabet, Inc. - Class C (a)
   
3,402,976
           
4,013,257
     
Life Sciences Tools & Services - 1.48%
     
 
10,275
 
Waters Corp. (a)
   
1,628,485
             
     
Machinery - 1.87%
     
 
42,585
 
Flowserve Corp.
   
2,054,300
             
     
Media - 5.05%
     
 
101,905
 
Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc.
   
2,277,577
 
134,810
 
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. - Class A
   
3,265,098
           
5,542,675
     
Multiline Retail - 1.48%
     
 
31,380
 
Nordstrom, Inc.
   
1,627,994
             
     
Multi-Utilities - 2.34%
     
 
23,900
 
Sempra Energy
   
2,561,841
             
     
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 5.16%
     
 
16,074
 
Chevron Corp.
   
1,654,336
 
48,775
 
Devon Energy Corp.
   
2,151,466
 
21,240
 
Exxon Mobil Corp.
   
1,853,827
           
5,659,629
     
Professional Services - 2.09%
     
 
42,775
 
Nielsen Holdings PLC (b)
   
2,291,457
             
     
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 1.86%
     
 
34,675
 
Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (a)
   
2,038,890

 
             
     
Software - 9.87%
     
 
52,950
 
Fleetmatics Group PLC (a)(b)
   
3,175,941
 
69,660
 
Fortinet, Inc. (a)
   
2,572,544
 
22,560
 
Intuit
   
2,481,825
 
45,140
 
Microsoft Corp.
   
2,600,064
           
10,830,374
     
Specialty Retail - 2.05%
     
 
39,570
 
Dicks Sporting Goods, Inc.
   
2,244,410
             
     
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 2.79%
     
 
27,046
 
Apple, Inc.
   
3,057,550
             
     
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 1.42%
     
 
55,715
 
Gildan Activewear, Inc. (b)
   
1,557,234
             
     
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $77,082,480)
   
103,701,308
             
Shares
 
REITS - 3.69%
 
Value
 
115,185
 
Redwood Trust, Inc.
   
1,631,020
 
107,620
 
Starwood Property Trust, Inc.
   
2,423,602
     
TOTAL REITS (Cost $4,211,127)
   
4,054,622
             
     
MONEY MARKET FUNDS - 0.93%
     
 
1,019,094
 
Fidelity Institutional Government Portfolio - Class I, 0.27% (c)
   
1,019,094
     
TOTAL MONEY MARKET FUNDS (Cost $1,019,094)
   
1,019,094
             
     
Total Investments in Securities (Cost $82,312,701) - 99.17%
   
108,775,024
     
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 0.83%
   
905,427
     
NET ASSETS - 100.00%
 
$
109,680,451
 
       
 
 (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 September 30, 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 Davidson Investment Advisors, Inc.
   

 

Davidson Multi-Cap Equity Fund
Notes to the Schedule of Investments
September 30, 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 September 30, 2016:
 

 
   
Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
   
Total
 
Common Stocks
                       
  Consumer Discretionary
 
$
15,448,957
   
$
-
   
$
-
   
$
15,448,957
 
  Consumer Staples
   
7,541,895
     
-
     
-
     
7,541,895
 
  Energy
   
6,988,251
     
-
     
-
     
6,988,251
 
  Financials
   
13,732,464
     
-
     
-
     
13,732,464
 
  Health Care
   
15,183,348
     
-
     
-
     
15,183,348
 
  Industrials
   
13,625,653
     
-
     
-
     
13,625,653
 
  Information Technology
   
22,308,763
     
-
     
-
     
22,308,763
 
  Materials
   
3,978,428
     
-
     
-
     
3,978,428
 
  Telecommunication Services
   
2,331,708
     
-
     
-
     
2,331,708
 
  Utilities
   
2,561,841
     
-
     
-
     
2,561,841
 
Total Common Stocks
   
103,701,308
     
-
     
-
     
103,701,308
 
REITs
                               
  Financials
   
4,054,622
     
-
     
-
     
4,054,622
 
Total REITs
   
4,054,622
     
-
     
-
     
4,054,622
 
Short-Term Investments
   
1,019,094
     
-
     
-
     
1,019,094
 
Total Investments in Securities
 
$
108,775,024
   
$
-
   
$
-
   
$
108,775,024
 


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 September 30, 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 September 30, 2016.


Note 2 – Federal Income Taxes

The cost basis of investments for federal income tax purposes at September 30, 2016 was as follows*:


Cost of investments
 
$
82,340,592
 
         
Gross unrealized appreciation
 
$
29,506,279
 
Gross unrealized depreciation
   
(3,071,847
)
Net unrealized appreciation
 
$
26,434,432
 


*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: 10/26/2016                                                                                 



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 10/26/2016                                                                                  

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

 
Date 10/26/2016                                                                                 

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