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CLEARBRIDGE SELECT FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    July 31, 2020

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 92.5%      
COMMUNICATION SERVICES - 1.6%      

Entertainment - 1.5%

     

Zynga Inc., Class A Shares

     2,023,600      $ 19,891,988
     

 

 

 

Media - 0.1%

     

comScore Inc.

     375,601        1,126,803
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES

        21,018,791  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 15.7%      

Auto Components - 1.2%

     

Fox Factory Holding Corp.

     167,218        14,882,402
     

 

 

 

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail - 6.4%

     

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., ADR

     82,840        20,794,497

Chewy Inc., Class A Shares

     190,730        10,011,418

Expedia Group Inc.

     164,542        13,329,547  

MercadoLibre Inc.

     33,392        37,553,311
     

 

 

 

Total Internet & Direct Marketing Retail

        81,688,773  
     

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 6.9%

     

American Eagle Outfitters Inc.

     921,730        9,217,300  

Carvana Co.

     243,854        37,785,177

Lowe’s Cos. Inc.

     149,700        22,291,827  

Ross Stores Inc.

     222,851        19,983,049  
     

 

 

 

Total Specialty Retail

        89,277,353  
     

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 1.2%

     

Crocs Inc.

     436,170        15,675,950
     

 

 

 

TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY

        201,524,478  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER STAPLES - 7.0%      

Beverages - 2.1%

     

Constellation Brands Inc., Class A Shares

     69,011        12,297,760  

Monster Beverage Corp.

     190,560        14,955,149
     

 

 

 

Total Beverages

        27,252,909  
     

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 4.0%

     

BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc.

     631,480        25,290,774

Casey’s General Stores Inc.

     77,585        12,350,756  

Performance Food Group Co.

     506,960        14,205,019
     

 

 

 

Total Food & Staples Retailing

        51,846,549  
     

 

 

 

Food Products - 0.9%

     

Vital Farms Inc.

     310,030        10,931,658
     

 

 

 

TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES

        90,031,116  
     

 

 

 
ENERGY - 0.5%      

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 0.5%

     

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

     60,420        5,855,907  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

    

 

   ClearBridge Select Fund 2020 Quarterly Report      

 

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CLEARBRIDGE SELECT FUND

 

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

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
FINANCIALS - 4.4%      

Banks - 1.5%

     

First Republic Bank

     54,720      $ 6,154,906  

Truist Financial Corp.

     335,420        12,564,833  
     

 

 

 

Total Banks

        18,719,739  
     

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 2.2%

     

Intercontinental Exchange Inc.

     77,370        7,487,868  

KKR & Co. Inc.

     584,221        20,663,897  
     

 

 

 

Total Capital Markets

        28,151,765  
     

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 0.7%

     

GS Acquisition Holdings Corp. II

     452,080        4,701,632

Insurance Acquisition Corp.

     492,650        4,625,484 *(a)(b)
     

 

 

 

Total Diversified Financial Services

        9,327,116  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL FINANCIALS

        56,198,620  
     

 

 

 
HEALTH CARE - 12.9%      

Biotechnology - 2.0%

     

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.

     149,860        17,954,727

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.

     100,220        7,833,195
     

 

 

 

Total Biotechnology

        25,787,922  
     

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.9%

     

Insulet Corp.

     103,260        20,998,954

SmileDirectClub Inc.

     437,290        3,695,100
     

 

 

 

Total Health Care Equipment & Supplies

        24,694,054  
     

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 1.2%

     

Surgery Partners Inc.

     983,022        15,010,746
     

 

 

 

Health Care Technology - 2.4%

     

Livongo Health Inc.

     244,341        31,092,392
     

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 5.4%

     

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc., Class A Shares

     42,999        22,569,745

PerkinElmer Inc.

     119,985        14,267,416  

PPD Inc.

     290,880        8,543,146

Syneos Health Inc.

     388,046        24,210,190
     

 

 

 

Total Life Sciences Tools & Services

        69,590,497  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

        166,175,611  
     

 

 

 
INDUSTRIALS - 9.5%      

Aerospace & Defense - 1.3%

     

L3Harris Technologies Inc.

     97,830        16,467,724  
     

 

 

 

Air Freight & Logistics - 1.2%

     

XPO Logistics Inc.

     212,690        15,956,004
     

 

 

 

Building Products - 2.1%

     

Trex Co. Inc.

     189,304        26,375,726
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

   

 

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      ClearBridge Select Fund 2020 Quarterly Report  


CLEARBRIDGE SELECT FUND

 

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

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  

Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.8%

     

Copart Inc.

     252,767      $ 23,570,523
     

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 1.0%

     

Vertiv Holdings Co.

     896,620        13,000,990
     

 

 

 

Machinery - 0.6%

     

Tennant Co.

     107,189        7,140,931  
     

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 0.9%

     

Uber Technologies Inc.

     379,290        11,477,316
     

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.6%

     

H&E Equipment Services Inc.

     442,317        7,780,356  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

        121,769,570  
     

 

 

 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 35.1%      

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.9%

     

Brain Corp.

     413,158        2,404,579 *(a)(b)(c) 

nLight Inc.

     401,240        9,296,731
     

 

 

 

Total Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components

        11,701,310  
     

 

 

 

IT Services - 8.8%

     

Cardtronics PLC, Class A Shares

     371,751        8,301,200

Shopify Inc., Class A Shares

     47,960        49,111,040

Visa Inc., Class A Shares

     92,173        17,549,739  

Wix.com Ltd.

     133,893        38,893,239
     

 

 

 

Total IT Services

        113,855,218  
     

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 0.9%

     

NVIDIA Corp.

     26,830        11,391,750  
     

 

 

 

Software - 21.8%

     

Adobe Inc.

     52,576        23,360,568

Agora Inc., ADR

     109,610        4,772,419

Cornerstone OnDemand Inc.

     312,860        11,109,659

Crowdstrike Holdings Inc., Class A Shares

     47,780        5,408,696

Datadog Inc., Class A Shares

     134,020        12,579,117

DocuSign Inc.

     268,629        58,246,826

Dynatrace Inc.

     212,140        8,873,816

Fortinet Inc.

     183,224        25,339,879

HubSpot Inc.

     59,520        13,963,987

New Relic Inc.

     217,894        15,450,864

Qualys Inc.

     107,330        13,253,108

ServiceNow Inc.

     88,609        38,917,073

Splunk Inc.

     34,840        7,310,129

Sprout Social Inc., Class A Shares

     646,008        18,663,171

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

    

 

   ClearBridge Select Fund 2020 Quarterly Report       

 

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CLEARBRIDGE SELECT FUND

 

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

 

SECURITY

    SHARES      VALUE  

Software - continued

        

Varonis Systems Inc.

        107,280      $ 11,623,788

Yext Inc.

        660,836        11,115,262
        

 

 

 

Total Software

           279,988,362  
        

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 2.7%

        

Apple Inc.

        81,851        34,789,949  
        

 

 

 

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

           451,726,589  
        

 

 

 
MATERIALS - 1.0%         

Construction Materials - 1.0%

        

Summit Materials Inc., Class A Shares

        909,310        13,385,043
        

 

 

 
REAL ESTATE - 4.8%         

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 4.2%

        

Digital Realty Trust Inc.

        116,818        18,753,962  

SBA Communications Corp.

        113,341        35,310,255  
        

 

 

 

Total Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

           54,064,217  
        

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.6%

        

CBRE Group Inc., Class A Shares

        176,541        7,734,261
        

 

 

 

TOTAL REAL ESTATE

           61,798,478  
        

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS
(Cost - $782,331,750)

           1,189,484,203  
        

 

 

 
    RATE     MATURITY
DATE
    FACE
AMOUNT
        
CORPORATE BONDS & NOTES - 0.4%         
ENERGY - 0.4%         

Energy Equipment & Services - 0.4%

        

Newpark Resources Inc., Senior Notes
(Cost - $4,023,089)

    4.000     12/1/21     $ 5,108,000        4,555,711  
        

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS BEFORE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
(Cost - $786,354,839)

 

     1,194,039,914  
        

 

 

 
                SHARES         
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 7.1%         

JPMorgan 100% U.S. Treasury Securities Money Market Fund, Institutional Class

      0.039     73,326,277        73,326,277  

Western Asset Premier Institutional U.S. Treasury Reserves,
Premium Shares

      0.075     18,331,569        18,331,569  (d) 
        

 

 

 

TOTAL SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
(Cost - $91,657,846)

 

     91,657,846  
        

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 100.0%
(Cost - $878,012,685)

 

     1,285,697,760  

Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 0.0%††

           264,097  
        

 

 

 

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

 

   $ 1,285,961,857  
        

 

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

   

 

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      ClearBridge Select Fund 2020 Quarterly Report  


CLEARBRIDGE SELECT FUND

 

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

 

††

Represents less than 0.1%.

 

*

Non-income producing security.

 

(a)

Security is valued in good faith in accordance with procedures approved by the Board of Trustees (Note 1).

 

(b)

Restricted security (Note 3).

 

(c)

Security is valued using significant unobservable inputs (Note 1).

 

(d)

In this instance, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, an “Affiliated Company” represents Fund ownership of at least 5% of the outstanding voting securities of an issuer, or a company which is under common ownership or control with the Fund. At July 31, 2020, the total market value of investments in Affiliated Companies was $18,331,569 and the cost was $18,331,569 (Note 2).

Abbreviation(s) used in this schedule:

 

ADR    — American Depositary Receipts

 

SCHEDULE OF WRITTEN OPTIONS               
Exchange-Traded Written Options

 

           

SECURITY

   EXPIRATION
DATE
     STRIKE
PRICE
     CONTRACTS      NOTIONAL
AMOUNT
     VALUE  

First Republic Bank, Put

              

(Premiums received - $124,641)

     8/21/20      $ 100.00        442      $ 4,971,616      $ (28,730
              

 

 

 

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.

 

    

 

   ClearBridge Select Fund 2020 Quarterly Report      

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)

 

1. Organization and significant accounting policies

ClearBridge Select Fund (the “Fund”) is a separate non-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) (cont’d)

 

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) (cont’d)

 

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

 

ASSETS

 

DESCRIPTION

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

Long-Term Investments†:

           

Common Stocks:

           

Financials

   $ 51,573,136      $ 4,625,484        —        $ 56,198,620  

Information Technology

     449,322,010        —        $ 2,404,579        451,726,589  

Other Common Stocks

     681,558,994        —          —          681,558,994  

Corporate Bonds & Notes

     —          4,555,711        —          4,555,711  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Long-Term Investments

     1,182,454,140        9,181,195        2,404,579        1,194,039,914  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Short-Term Investments†

     91,657,846        —          —          91,657,846  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments

   $ 1,274,111,986      $ 9,181,195      $ 2,404,579      $ 1,285,697,760  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

LIABILITIES

 

DESCRIPTION

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

Other Financial Instruments:

           

Written Options

     —        $ 28,730        —        $ 28,730  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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      Realized
Gain (Loss)
     Interest
Income
     Net Increase
(Decrease) in
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
     Affiliate
Value at
July 31, 2020
 
     Cost      Shares      Cost      Shares  
Western Asset Premier Institutional U.S. Treasury Reserves, Premium Shares      —        $ 68,559,183        68,559,183      $ 50,227,614        50,227,614        —        $ 43,594        —        $ 18,331,569  

 

 

   

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

 

3. Restricted securities

The following Fund investments are restricted as to resale and, in the absence of a readily ascertainable market value, is valued in good faith in accordance with procedures approved by the Board of Trustees.

 

Security

   Number of
Shares
     Acquisition
Date
     Cost      Fair Value
at 7/31/2020
     Value Per
Share
     Percent of
Net Assets
 

Brain Corp.

     413,158        4/20      $ 2,179,615      $ 2,404,579      $ 5.82        0.19

Insurance Acquisition Corp.

     492,650        6/20        4,926,500        4,625,484        9.39        0.36  
        

 

 

    

 

 

       

 

 

 
         $ 7,106,115      $ 7,030,063           0.55
        

 

 

    

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

    

 

    

 

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