N-Q 1 dnq.htm THE PRUDENTIAL VARIABLE CONTRACT ACCOUNT -2 The Prudential Variable Contract Account -2

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


FORM N-Q

 


QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

 

Investment Company Act file number:    811-01612
Exact name of registrant as specified in charter:    The Prudential Variable Contract Account-2
Address of principal executive offices:   

Gateway Center 3,

100 Mulberry Street,

Newark, New Jersey 07102

Name and address of agent for service:   

Deborah A. Docs

Gateway Center 3,

100 Mulberry Street,

Newark, New Jersey 07102

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:    973-367-7521
Date of fiscal year end:    12/31/2007
Date of reporting period:    9/30/2007

 



Item 1. Schedule of Investments


VCA 2

Schedule of Investments as of September 30, 2007. (Unaudited)

 

LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS - 99.2%

COMMON STOCKS - 98.1%

   Shares    Value  

Biotechnology - 2.8%

     

Amgen Inc. (a)

     152,300    $ 8,615,611  

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a)

     114,600      4,683,702  
           
        13,299,313  
           

Capital Markets - 3.9%

     

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The)

     177,170      7,820,284  

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (a)

     189,500      3,452,690  

UBS AG

     143,000      7,614,750  
           
        18,887,724  
           

Chemicals - 1.0%

     

EI du Pont de Nemours & Co.

     95,700      4,742,892  
           

Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.7%

     

Waste Management, Inc.

     219,100      8,268,834  
           

Communications Equipment - 1.4%

     

QUALCOMM, Inc.

     155,900      6,588,334  
           

Computers & Peripherals - 3.8%

     

Apple, Inc. (a)

     40,900      6,279,786  

Lexmark International Inc., Cl.A (a)

     105,200      4,368,956  

Seagate Technology

     294,200      7,525,636  
           
        18,174,378  
           

Consumer Finance - 1.1%

     

SLM Corp.

     103,200      5,125,944  
           

Diversified Consumer Services - 2.9%

     

Career Education Corp. (a)

     198,100      5,544,819  

H&R Block, Inc.

     388,800      8,234,784  
           
        13,779,603  
           

Diversified Financial Services - 1.3%

     

Citigroup, Inc.

     137,900      6,435,793  
           

Electric Utilities - 2.6%

     

Entergy Corp.

     60,900      6,594,861  

Progress Energy Inc.

     126,700      5,935,895  
           
        12,530,756  
           

Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 1.3%

     

Sony Corp., ADR (Japan)

     126,000      6,055,560  
           

Food & Staples Retailing - 2.7%

     

Kroger Co. (The)

     268,700      7,663,324  

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

     126,000      5,499,900  
           
        13,163,224  
           

Food Products - 4.1%

     

Cadbury Schweppes PLC., ADR (United Kingdom)

     238,700      11,104,324  

ConAgra Foods, Inc.

     333,400      8,711,742  
           
        19,816,066  
           

Health Care Providers & Services - 1.8%

     

Omnicare, Inc.

     255,600      8,468,028  
           

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.2%

     

International Game Technology

     136,700      5,891,770  
           

Household Products - 1.1%

     

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

     78,000      5,480,280  
           

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 1.6%

     

NRG Energy, Inc. (a)

     176,800      7,476,872  
           

Industrial Conglomerates - 2.0%

     

General Electric Co.

     232,300      9,617,220  
           

Insurance - 6.0%

     

American International Group, Inc.

     173,200      11,716,980  

Loews Corp.

     232,600      11,246,210  

MBIA, Inc.

     99,700      6,086,685  
           
        29,049,875  
           

Internet & Catalog Retail - 1.4%

     

IAC/InterActiveCorp. (a)

     231,400      6,865,638  
           

Internet Software & Services - 1.9%

     

Google, Inc. Cl. A (a)

     16,300      9,246,501  
           

Media - 6.2%

     

Comcast Corp. (a)

     275,500      6,661,590  

Liberty Global, Inc. Ser. C (a)

     208,705      8,068,535  

News Corp. Inc. Cl. A

     324,700      7,140,153  

XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc. (a)

     567,300      8,038,641  
           
        29,908,919  
           

Metals & Mining - 4.0%

     

Freeport-McMoRan Cooper & Gold, Inc.

     102,300      10,730,247  

Lihir Gold Limited, ADR, Private Placement (Papua New Guinea)

     236,900      8,535,507  
           
        19,265,754  
           

Multiline Retail - 2.0%

     

JC Penney Co., Inc.

     72,500      4,594,325  

Macy’s Inc.

     153,800      4,970,816  
           
        9,565,141  
           

Multi-Utilities - 1.8%

     

Sempra Energy

     145,000      8,427,400  
           

Office Electronics - 1.3%

     

Xerox Corp. (a)

     371,400      6,440,076  
           

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 14.4%

     

Devon Energy Corp.

     62,000      5,158,400  

Hess Corp.

     134,100      8,921,673  

Marathon Oil Corp.

     119,000      6,785,380  

Murphy Oil Corp.

     76,000      5,311,640  

Nexen, Inc.

     281,100      8,584,794  

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

     168,600      10,803,888  

Petroleo Brasileiro SA, ADR (Brazil)

     101,000      7,625,500  

Suncor Energy, Inc.

     119,300      11,310,833  

Williams Cos., Inc.

     137,900      4,696,874  
           
        69,198,982  
           

Pharmaceuticals - 6.1%

     

Abbott Laboratories

     89,300      4,788,266  

Roche Holdings Ltd., ADR (Switzerland)

     85,300      7,707,085  

Schering-Plough Corp.

     193,700      6,126,731  

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., ADR (Israel)

     76,200      3,388,614  

Wyeth

     161,500      7,194,825  
           
        29,205,521  
           

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 3.8%

     

Intel Corp.

     184,700      4,776,342  

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (a)

     390,500      6,392,485  

Spansion, Inc. (a)

     841,300      7,108,985  
           
        18,277,812  
           

Software - 3.8%

     

Adobe Systems Incorporated (a)

     224,000      9,779,840  

Symantec Corp. (a)

     437,500      8,478,750  
           
        18,258,590  
           

Specialty Retail - 1.9%

     

Best Buy Co., Inc.

     198,600      9,139,572  
           

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 1.1%

     

People’s United Financial, Inc.

     313,660      5,420,045  
           

Tobacco - 1.2%

     

Altria Group, Inc.

     82,400      5,729,272  
           

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 2.9%

     

NII Holdings, Inc. (a)

     83,300      6,843,095  

Sprint Nextel Corp.

     367,988      6,991,772  
           
        13,834,867  
           

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS

     

(Cost: $376,545,055)

        471,636,556  
           
    

Principal
Amount
(000)

      

CORPORATE BOND - 1.1%

     

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 1.1%

     

Trident Resources Corp., Unsec’d. Note (Canada), Private Placement, 12.996%, due 8/12/12 (a)(b)(c)
(Cost: $4,870,650; purchased 9/20/07)

   $ 5,154      5,186,798  
           
     Units       

WARRANT

     

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

     

Trident Resources Corp. (Canada), Private Placement, expiring 1/01/15 (a)(b)(c)
(Cost: $0; purchased 8/20/07)

     505,989      51  
           

TOTAL LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS

     

(Cost: $381,415,705)

        476,823,405  
           
     Shares       

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 1.8%

     

AFFILIATED MONEY MARKET MUTUAL FUND

     

Dryden Core Investment Fund- Taxable Money Market Series (d)(e)

(Cost: $8,692,439)

     8,692,439      8,692,439  
           

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 101.0%

     

(Cost: $390,108,144)

        485,515,844  

LIABILITIES IN EXCESS OF OTHER ASSETS - (1.0)%

        (4,870,895 )
           

NET ASSETS - 100%

      $ 480,644,949  
           

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Indicates an illiquid security.
(c) Indicates a security restricted to resale. The aggregate cost of such securities is $4,870,650. The aggregate value of $5,186,849 is approximately 1.1% of net assets.
(d) As of September 30, 2007, three securities valued at $13,722,356 and representing 2.8% of the total market value of the portfolio were fair valued in accordance with the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees.
(e) The Prudential Investments LLC, the Manager of the Account, also serves as Manager of the Dryden Core Investment Fund - Taxable Money Market Series.

ADR American Depository Receipt


VARIABLE CONTRACT ANNUITY 2

Notes to Schedule of Investments (Unaudited)

Securities Valuation: Securities listed on a securities exchange (other than options on securities and indices) are valued at the last sale price on such exchange on the day of valuation or, if there was no sale on such day, at the mean between the last reported bid and asked prices, or at the last bid price on such day in the absence of an asked price. Securities traded via Nasdaq are valued at the Nasdaq official closing price (“NOCP”) on the day of valuation, or if there was no NOCP, at the last sale price. Securities that are actively traded in the over-the-counter market, including listed securities for which the primary market is believed by Prudential Investments LLC (“PI or Manager”), in consultation with the subadviser; to be over-the-counter, are valued at market value using prices provided by an independent pricing agent or principal market maker.

Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been affected by events occurring after the close of the security’s foreign market and before the funds’ normal pricing time, are valued at fair value in accordance with the Accounts’ Committee members approved fair valuation procedures. Using fair value to price securities may result in a value that is different from a security’s most recent closing price and from the price used by other mutual funds to calculate their net asset values. When determining the fair valuation of securities some of the factors influencing the valuation include, the nature of any restrictions on disposition of the securities; assessment of the general liquidity of the securities; the issuer’s financial condition and the markets in which it does business; the cost of the investment; the size of the holding and the capitalization of issuer; the prices of any recent transactions or bids/offers for such securities or any comparable securities; any available analyst media or other reports or information deemed reliable by the investment adviser regarding the issuer or the markets or industry in which it operates.

Investments in mutual funds are valued at the net asset value as of the close of the New York Stock Exchange on the date of valuation.

Short-term debt securities, which mature in sixty days or less, are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. The amortized cost method involves valuing a security at its cost on the date of purchase and thereafter assuming a constant amortization to maturity of the difference between the principal amount due at maturity and cost. Short-term debt securities which mature in more than sixty days are valued at current market quotations.

The Fund invests in the Taxable Money Market Series (the “Series”), a portfolio of Dryden Core Investment Fund, pursuant to an exemptive order received from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Series is a money market mutual fund registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and managed by PI.

Other information regarding each fund is available in the respective fund’s most recent Report of Shareholders. This information is available on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website (www.sec.gov).


Item 2. Controls and Procedures

 

  (a) It is the conclusion of the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer that the effectiveness of the registrant’s current disclosure controls and procedures (such disclosure controls and procedures having been evaluated within 90 days of the date of this filing) provide reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant has been recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time period specified in the Commission’s rules and forms and that the information required to be disclosed by the registrant has been accumulated and communicated to the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer in order to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

  (b) There have been no significant changes in the registrant’s internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect these controls subsequent to the date of their evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

 

Item 3. Exhibits

Certifications pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 – Attached hereto.


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) The Prudential Variable Contract Account-2  
By (Signature and Title)*  

/s/ Deborah A. Docs

 
  Deborah A. Docs  
  Secretary of the Fund  
Date November 26, 2007    

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/ Judy A. Rice

 
  Judy A. Rice  
  President and Principal Executive Officer  
Date November 26, 2007    
By (Signature and Title)*  

/s/ Grace C. Torres

 
  Grace C. Torres  
  Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer  
Date November 26, 2007    

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