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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 811-06444

Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

55 Water Street, New York, NY 10041

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

Robert I. Frenkel, Esq.

Legg Mason & Co., LLC

100 First Stamford Place

Stamford, CT 06902

(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

Funds Investors Services 1-800-822-5544

or

Institutional Shareholder Services 1-888-425-6432

Date of fiscal year end: October 31

Date of reporting period: July 31, 2010

 

 

 


ITEM 1. SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS.


LEGG MASON PARTNERS EQUITY TRUST

LEGG MASON CLEARBRIDGE

LARGE CAP VALUE FUND

FORM N-Q

JULY 31, 2010


LEGG MASON CLEARBRIDGE LARGE CAP VALUE FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    July 31, 2010

 

SECURITY

   SHARES    VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 99.0%      
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 17.5%      

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.7%

     

McDonald’s Corp.

   168,346    $   11,738,766   
           

Media - 13.1%

     

DISH Network Corp., Class A Shares

   664,931      13,351,814   

News Corp., Class A Shares

   1,485,752      19,389,064   

Scripps Networks Interactive, Class A Shares

   171,495      7,310,832   

SES Global SA, FDR

   593,308      14,655,432   

Time Warner Cable Inc.

   249,190      14,246,192   

Time Warner Inc.

   663,098      20,861,063   
           

Total Media

        89,814,397   
           

Multiline Retail - 1.0%

     

Target Corp.

   127,531      6,544,891   
           

Specialty Retail - 1.7%

     

Home Depot Inc.

   410,837      11,712,963   
           

TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY

        119,811,017   
           
CONSUMER STAPLES - 12.8%      

Food & Staples Retailing - 2.7%

     

CVS Caremark Corp.

   264,694      8,123,459   

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

   202,459      10,363,876   
           

Total Food & Staples Retailing

        18,487,335   
           

Food Products - 1.0%

     

Unilever PLC, ADR

   241,542      6,915,347   
           

Household Products - 4.0%

     

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

   318,980      20,452,998   

Procter & Gamble Co.

   110,316      6,746,926   
           

Total Household Products

        27,199,924   
           

Tobacco - 5.1%

     

Altria Group Inc.

   315,042      6,981,331   

Lorillard Inc.

   103,873      7,919,278   

Philip Morris International Inc.

   398,781      20,353,782   
           

Total Tobacco

        35,254,391   
           

TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES

        87,856,997   
           
ENERGY - 14.0%      

Energy Equipment & Services - 2.3%

     

Halliburton Co.

   390,104      11,656,308   

Transocean Ltd.

   96,263      4,448,313 * 
           

Total Energy Equipment & Services

        16,104,621   
           

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 11.7%

     

Apache Corp.

   74,490      7,119,754   

El Paso Corp.

   1,444,792      17,799,837   

Exxon Mobil Corp.

   245,360      14,643,085   

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, ADR, Class A Shares

   155,550      8,620,581   

Suncor Energy Inc.

   344,222      11,342,115   

Total SA, ADR

   401,305      20,318,072   
           

Total Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

        79,843,444   
           

TOTAL ENERGY

        95,948,065   
           
FINANCIALS - 23.5%      

Capital Markets - 4.4%

     

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

   222,081      5,567,571   

Charles Schwab Corp.

   518,581      7,669,813   

Morgan Stanley

   380,048      10,257,495   

State Street Corp.

   178,326      6,940,448   
           

Total Capital Markets

        30,435,327   
           

Commercial Banks - 3.5%

     

Wells Fargo & Co.

   853,329      23,662,813   
           

Consumer Finance - 1.9%

     

American Express Co.

   289,512      12,923,816   
           

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

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LEGG MASON CLEARBRIDGE LARGE CAP VALUE FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    July 31, 2010

 

SECURITY

   SHARES    VALUE  

Diversified Financial Services - 6.3%

     

Bank of America Corp.

   1,409,674    $ 19,791,823   

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

   586,357      23,618,460   
           

Total Diversified Financial Services

        43,410,283   
           

Insurance - 7.4%

     

Chubb Corp.

   169,628      8,927,522   

Loews Corp.

   325,333      12,086,121   

Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.

   436,308      10,261,964   

Progressive Corp.

   388,530      7,630,729   

Travelers Cos. Inc.

   230,025      11,604,761   
           

Total Insurance

        50,511,097   
           

TOTAL FINANCIALS

        160,943,336   
           
HEALTH CARE - 8.7%      

Health Care Providers & Services - 0.9%

     

WellPoint Inc.

   129,664      6,576,558 * 
           

Pharmaceuticals - 7.8%

     

Abbott Laboratories

   179,584      8,813,983   

Johnson & Johnson

   215,727      12,531,581   

Merck & Co. Inc.

   242,302      8,349,727   

Novartis AG, ADR

   224,124      10,923,804   

Pfizer Inc.

   432,845      6,492,675   

Roche Holding AG

   47,617      6,193,821   
           

Total Pharmaceuticals

        53,305,591   
           

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

        59,882,149   
           
INDUSTRIALS - 7.9%      

Aerospace & Defense - 3.5%

     

Honeywell International Inc.

   282,268      12,098,006   

Raytheon Co.

   249,499      11,544,319   
           

Total Aerospace & Defense

        23,642,325   
           

Industrial Conglomerates - 4.4%

     

General Electric Co.

   933,276      15,044,409   

United Technologies Corp.

   212,166      15,085,003   
           

Total Industrial Conglomerates

        30,129,412   
           

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

        53,771,737   
           
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 5.9%      

Computers & Peripherals - 1.8%

     

Hewlett-Packard Co.

   257,889      11,873,210   
           

IT Services - 2.3%

     

International Business Machines Corp.

   123,792      15,894,893   
           

Software - 1.8%

     

Microsoft Corp.

   476,467      12,297,613   
           

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

        40,065,716   
           
MATERIALS - 1.8%      

Chemicals - 1.8%

     

Air Products & Chemicals Inc.

   173,290      12,577,388   
           
TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES - 4.9%      

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 4.9%

     

AT&T Inc.

   360,540      9,352,408   

CenturyTel Inc.

   386,737      13,775,572   

Verizon Communications Inc.

   350,943      10,198,403   
           

TOTAL TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES

        33,326,383   
           
UTILITIES - 2.0%      

Multi-Utilities - 2.0%

     

Sempra Energy

   273,559      13,609,561   
           

TOTAL INVESTMENTS BEFORE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT

(Cost - $593,417,562)

      $ 677,792,349   
           

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

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LEGG MASON CLEARBRIDGE LARGE CAP VALUE FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    July 31, 2010

 

 

SECURITY

   RATE     MATURITY
DATE
   FACE
AMOUNT
   VALUE  
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT - 1.0%           

Repurchase Agreement - 1.0%

          

Interest in $25,000,000 joint tri-party repurchase

agreement dated 7/30/10 with Deutsche Bank

Securities Inc.; Proceeds at maturity - $6,871,109;

(Fully collateralized by various U.S. government

obligations, 4.625% due 10/15/14;

Market value - $7,008,543) (Cost - $6,871,000)

   0.190   8/2/10    $ 6,871,000    $ 6,871,000   
                

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 100.0%

(Cost - $600,288,562#)

             684,663,349   

Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets - 0.0%

             (20,491
                

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

           $ 684,642,858   
                

 

* Non-income producing security.

 

# Aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes is substantially the same.

Abbreviations used in this schedule:

 

ADR    — American Depositary Receipt
FDR    — Foreign Depositary Receipt

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)

1. Organization and Significant Accounting Policies

Legg Mason ClearBridge Large Cap Value Fund (formerly known as Legg Mason ClearBridge Investors Value Fund) (the “Fund”) is a separate non-diversified series of Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust (the “Trust”). The Trust, a Maryland statutory trust, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company.

The following are significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Fund and are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”).

(a) Investment Valuation. Equity securities for which market quotations are available are valued at the last reported sales price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange on which they trade. Debt securities are valued at the mean between the last quoted bid and asked prices provided by an independent pricing service that are based on transactions in debt obligations, quotations from bond dealers, market transactions in comparable securities and various other relationships between securities. When prices are not readily available, or are determined not to reflect fair value, such as when the value of a security has been significantly affected by events after the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded, but before the Fund calculates its net asset value, the Fund values these securities at fair value as determined in accordance with procedures approved by the Fund’s Board of Trustees. Fair valuing of securities may be also determined with the assistance of a pricing service using calculations based on indices of domestic securities and the appropriate indicators, such as prices of relevant American depository receipts (ADRs) and futures contracts. Short-term obligations with maturities of 60 days or less are valued at amortized cost, which approximates fair value

The Fund has adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Codification Topic 820 (“ASC Topic 820”). ASC Topic 820 establishes a single definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Fund’s investments, and requires additional disclosure about fair value. The hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

 

   

Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

 

   

Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The Fund uses valuation techniques to measure fair value that are consistent with the market approach and/or income approach, depending on the type of the security and the particular circumstance. The market approach uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable securities. The income approach uses valuation techniques to discount estimated future amounts of cash flows to present value.

The following is a summary of the inputs used in valuing the Fund’s assets carried at fair value:

 

DESCRIPTION

   QUOTED PRICES
(LEVEL 1)
   OTHER SIGNIFICANT
OBSERVABLE INPUTS
(LEVEL 2)
   SIGNIFICANT
UNOBSERVABLE
INPUTS

(LEVEL 3)
   TOTAL

Common Stocks†

   $ 677,792,349      —      —      $ 677,792,349

Short-term investments†

     —      $ 6,871,000    —        6,871,000
                         

Total investments

   $ 677,792,349    $ 6,871,000    —      $ 684,663,349
                         

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

(b) Repurchase Agreements. The Fund may enter into repurchase agreements with institutions that its investment adviser has determined are creditworthy. Each repurchase agreement is recorded at cost. Under the terms of a typical repurchase agreement, the Fund acquires debt security subject to an obligation of the seller to repurchase, and of the Fund to resell, the security at an agreed-upon price and time, thereby determining the yield during the Fund’s holding period. When entering into repurchase agreements, it is the Fund’s policy that its custodian or a third party custodian, acting on the Fund’s behalf, take possession of the underlying collateral securities, the market value of which, at all times, at least equals the principal amount of the repurchase transaction, including accrued interest. To the extent that any repurchase transaction maturity exceeds one business day, the value of the collateral is marked to market and measured against the value of the agreement in an effort to ensure the adequacy of the collateral. If the counterparty defaults, the Fund generally has the right to use the collateral to satisfy the terms of the repurchase transaction. However, if the market value of the collateral declines during the period in which the Fund seeks to assert its rights or if bankruptcy proceedings are commenced with respect to the seller of the security, realization of the collateral by the Fund may be delayed or limited.

(c) Security Transactions. Security transactions are accounted for on a trade date basis.

2. Investments

At July 31, 2010, the aggregate gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation of investments for federal income tax purposes were substantially as follows:

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

   $ 126,925,992   

Gross unrealized depreciation

     (42,551,205
        

Net unrealized appreciation

   $ 84,374,787   
        

3. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

Financial Accounting Standards Board Codification Topic 815 requires enhanced disclosure about an entity’s derivative and hedging activities.

During the period ended July 31, 2010, the Fund did not invest in any derivative instruments.

 

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ITEM 2. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

 

  (a) The registrant’s principal executive officer and 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”)) are effective as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report that includes the disclosure required by this paragraph, based on their evaluation of the disclosure controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act and 15d-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

  (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) that occurred during the registrant’s last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are likely to materially affect the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

ITEM 3. EXHIBITS.

Certifications pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are 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.

Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust

 

By  

/S/    R. JAY GERKEN        

  R. Jay Gerken
  Chief Executive Officer

Date:

  September 27, 2010

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  

/S/    R. JAY GERKEN        

  R. Jay Gerken
  Chief Executive Officer

Date:

  September 27, 2010

 

By  

/S/    KAPREL OZSOLAK        

  Kaprel Ozsolak
  Chief Financial Officer

Date:

  September 27, 2010