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CLEARBRIDGE MID CAP GROWTH FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    July 31, 2020

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 99.9%      
COMMUNICATION SERVICES - 5.3%      

Entertainment - 2.9%

     

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

     28,199      $ 1,319,995

Zynga Inc., Class A Shares

     132,505        1,302,524
     

 

 

 

Total Entertainment

        2,622,519  
     

 

 

 

Interactive Media & Services - 2.4%

     

Pinterest Inc., Class A Shares

     63,133        2,164,831
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES

        4,787,350  
     

 

 

 
Consumer Discretionary - 13.9%      

Auto Components - 1.6%

     

Aptiv PLC

     19,044        1,480,671  
     

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.0%

     

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.

     779        899,869
     

 

 

 

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail - 6.4%

     

Chewy Inc., Class A Shares

     32,621        1,712,276

Expedia Group Inc.

     14,850        1,202,999  

MercadoLibre Inc.

     2,557        2,875,653
     

 

 

 

Total Internet & Direct Marketing Retail

        5,790,928  
     

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 4.9%

     

Burlington Stores Inc.

     11,509        2,163,692

Carvana Co.

     14,247        2,207,573
     

 

 

 

Total Specialty Retail

        4,371,265  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY

        12,542,733  
     

 

 

 
Consumer Staples - 2.2%      

Food & Staples Retailing - 2.2%

     

Casey’s General Stores Inc.

     7,664        1,220,032  

Performance Food Group Co.

     27,465        769,569
     

 

 

 

TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES

        1,989,601  
     

 

 

 
Energy - 0.5%      

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 0.5%

     

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

     4,787        463,956  
     

 

 

 
Financials - 4.2%      

Banks - 1.7%

     

First Republic Bank

     13,306        1,496,659  
     

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 1.0%

     

Tradeweb Markets Inc., Class A Shares

     17,193        929,626  
     

 

 

 

Insurance - 1.5%

     

GoHealth Inc., Class A Shares

     10,050        178,387

Progressive Corp.

     13,005        1,174,872  
     

 

 

 

Total Insurance

        1,353,259  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL FINANCIALS

        3,779,544  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

    

 

   ClearBridge Mid Cap Growth Fund 2020 Quarterly Report      

 

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CLEARBRIDGE MID CAP GROWTH FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    July 31, 2020

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
Health Care - 18.8%      

Biotechnology - 2.3%

     

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.

     12,904      $ 1,546,028

Incyte Corp.

     4,841        478,097
     

 

 

 

Total Biotechnology

        2,024,125  
     

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 6.0%

     

IDEXX Laboratories Inc.

     6,498        2,584,580

Insulet Corp.

     2,234        454,306

STERIS PLC

     7,294        1,164,341  

Varian Medical Systems Inc.

     8,611        1,228,962
     

 

 

 

Total Health Care Equipment & Supplies

        5,432,189  
     

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 8.1%

     

Bio-Techne Corp.

     4,670        1,284,997  

Mettler-Toledo International Inc.

     2,926        2,735,810

PPD Inc.

     47,187        1,385,882

Syneos Health Inc.

     29,373        1,832,582
     

 

 

 

Total Life Sciences Tools & Services

        7,239,271  
     

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 2.4%

     

Catalent Inc.

     24,960        2,180,006
     

 

 

 

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

        16,875,591  
     

 

 

 
Industrials - 13.1%      

Air Freight & Logistics - 1.1%

     

XPO Logistics Inc.

     13,392        1,004,668
     

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 2.1%

     

Copart Inc.

     19,726        1,839,449
     

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 1.7%

     

Rockwell Automation Inc.

     7,000        1,526,980  
     

 

 

 

Machinery - 2.8%

     

IDEX Corp.

     12,029        1,982,620  

RBC Bearings Inc.

     4,219        516,490
     

 

 

 

Total Machinery

        2,499,110  
     

 

 

 

Professional Services - 2.9%

     

CoStar Group Inc.

     3,049        2,590,918
     

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 2.5%

     

United Rentals Inc.

     10,184        1,582,288

W.W. Grainger Inc.

     2,060        703,552  
     

 

 

 

Total Trading Companies & Distributors

        2,285,840  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

        11,746,965  
     

 

 

 
Information Technology - 35.5%      

Communications Equipment - 1.8%

     

Arista Networks Inc.

     6,173        1,603,560
     

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 2.9%

     

IPG Photonics Corp.

     7,469        1,337,026

Keysight Technologies Inc.

     12,796        1,278,192
     

 

 

 

Total Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components

        2,615,218  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

   

 

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      ClearBridge Mid Cap Growth Fund 2020 Quarterly Report  


CLEARBRIDGE MID CAP GROWTH FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    July 31, 2020

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  

Information Technology - (continued)

     

IT Services - 2.5%

     

Black Knight Inc.

     11,600      $ 869,072

Jack Henry & Associates Inc.

     8,054        1,436,028  
     

 

 

 

Total IT Services

        2,305,100  
     

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 5.6%

     

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

     9,922        768,261

Entegris Inc.

     14,850        1,067,864  

Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

     44,741        1,631,704  

Monolithic Power Systems Inc.

     5,804        1,538,118  
     

 

 

 

Total Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

        5,005,947  
     

 

 

 

Software - 22.7%

     

Aspen Technology Inc.

     17,557        1,707,594

Atlassian Corp. PLC, Class A Shares

     14,260        2,519,029

Citrix Systems Inc.

     8,885        1,268,422  

Datadog Inc., Class A Shares

     21,881        2,053,751

DocuSign Inc.

     5,914        1,282,333

Fortinet Inc.

     19,504        2,697,403

Palo Alto Networks Inc.

     6,003        1,536,288

Paylocity Holding Corp.

     7,068        941,458

ServiceNow Inc.

     4,589        2,015,489

Splunk Inc.

     15,359        3,222,625

Workday Inc., Class A Shares

     6,533        1,181,950
     

 

 

 

Total Software

        20,426,342  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

        31,956,167  
     

 

 

 
Materials - 2.8%      

Construction Materials - 1.7%

     

Martin Marietta Materials Inc.

     7,467        1,547,013  
     

 

 

 

Containers & Packaging - 1.1%

     

Ball Corp.

     12,965        954,613  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL MATERIALS

        2,501,626  
     

 

 

 
Real Estate - 3.6%      

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 3.6%

     

Americold Realty Trust

     18,759        756,926  

SBA Communications Corp.

     7,835        2,440,916  
     

 

 

 

Total Real Estate

        3,197,842  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 99.9%
(Cost - $48,636,958)

        89,841,375  
     

 

 

 

Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 0.1%

        73,430  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

      $ 89,914,805  
     

 

 

 

 

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Non-income producing security.

This Schedule of Investments is unaudited and is intended to provide information about the Fund’s investments as of the date of the schedule. Other information regarding the Fund is available in the Fund’s most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

    

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)

 

1. Organization and significant accounting policies

ClearBridge Mid Cap Growth Fund (the “Fund”) is a separate diversified investment 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. The valuations for fixed income securities (which may include, but are not limited to, corporate, government, municipal, mortgage-backed, collateralized mortgage obligations and asset-backed securities) and certain derivative instruments are typically the prices supplied by independent third party pricing services, which may use market prices or broker/dealer quotations or a variety of valuation techniques and methodologies. The independent third party pricing services use inputs that are observable such as issuer details, interest rates, yield curves, prepayment speeds, credit risks/spreads, default rates and quoted prices for similar securities. Investments in open-end funds are valued at the closing net asset value per share of each fund on the day of valuation. When the Fund holds securities or other assets that are denominated in a foreign currency, the Fund will normally use the currency exchange rates as of 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). If independent third party pricing services are unable to supply prices for a portfolio investment, or if the prices supplied are deemed by the manager to be unreliable, the market price may be determined by the manager using quotations from one or more broker/dealers or at the transaction price if the security has recently been purchased and no value has yet been obtained from a pricing service or pricing broker. When reliable prices are not readily available, 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 as determined in accordance with procedures approved by the Fund’s Board of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the valuation process and has delegated the supervision of the daily valuation process to the Legg Mason North Atlantic Fund Valuation Committee (the “Valuation Committee”). The Valuation Committee, pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the Fund’s pricing policies, and reporting to the Board of Trustees. When determining the reliability of third party pricing information for investments owned by the Fund, the Valuation Committee, among other things, conducts due diligence reviews of pricing vendors, monitors the daily change in prices and reviews transactions among market participants.

 

 

   

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

The Valuation Committee will consider pricing methodologies it deems relevant and appropriate when making fair value determinations. Examples of possible methodologies include, but are not limited to, multiple of earnings; discount from market of a similar freely traded security; discounted cash-flow analysis; book value or a multiple thereof; risk premium/yield analysis; yield to maturity; and/or fundamental investment analysis. The Valuation Committee will also consider factors it deems relevant and appropriate in light of the facts and circumstances. Examples of possible factors include, but are not limited to, the type of security; the issuer’s financial statements; the purchase price of the security; the discount from market value of unrestricted securities of the same class at the time of purchase; analysts’ research and observations from financial institutions; information regarding any transactions or offers with respect to the security; the existence of merger proposals or tender offers affecting the security; the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or comparable companies; and the existence of a shelf registration for restricted securities.

For each portfolio security that has been fair valued pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, the fair value price is compared against the last available and next available market quotations. The Valuation Committee reviews the results of such back testing monthly and fair valuation occurrences are reported to the Board of Trustees quarterly.

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 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 cash flows to present value.

GAAP establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed 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 methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

 

    

 

    

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

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

 

ASSETS

 

DESCRIPTION

   QUOTED PRICES
(LEVEL 1)
     OTHER SIGNIFICANT
OBSERVABLE INPUTS
(LEVEL 2)
     SIGNIFICANT
UNOBSERVABLE
INPUTS
(LEVEL 3)
     TOTAL  

Common Stocks†

   $ 89,841,375        —          —        $ 89,841,375  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

2. Transactions with affiliated company

As defined by the 1940 Act, an affiliated company is one in which the Fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common ownership or control. Based on the Fund’s relative ownership, the following company was considered an affiliated company for all or some portion of the period ended July 31, 2020. The following transactions were effected in shares of such company for the period ended July 31, 2020.

 

     Affiliate
Value at
October 31,
2019
     Purchased      Sold  

 

   Cost      Shares      Cost      Shares  
Western Asset Premier Institutional U.S. Treasury Reserves, Premium Shares      —        $ 1,693,474        1,693,474      $ 1,693,474        1,693,474  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(cont’d)

   Realized
Gain (Loss)
     Interest
Income
     Net Increase
(Decrease) in
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
     Affiliate
Value at

July 31,
2020
 
Western Asset Premier Institutional U.S. Treasury Reserves, Premium Shares      —          —          —          —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

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