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FORM N-Q

 

 

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

 

Investment Company Act file number

811-4537

 

Liberty All Star Growth Fund, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

One Financial Center, Boston, Massachusetts

02111

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip code)

 

Vincent Pietropaolo, Esq.

Columbia Management Group, Inc.

One Financial Center

Boston, MA 02111

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

 

 

Registrant's telephone number, including area code:

1-617-772-3698

 

 

Date of fiscal year end:

12/31/05

 

 

 

 

Date of reporting period:

3/31/05

 

 



 

Item 1. Schedule of Investments.

 

Schedule of Investments as of March 31, 2005 (Unaudited)

 

 

 

SHARES

 

MARKET VALUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON STOCKS (98.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY (17.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Automobiles (1.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Harley-Davidson, Inc.

 

23,555

 

$

1,360,537

 

Thor Industries, Inc.

 

26,855

 

803,233

 

 

 

 

 

2,163,770

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure (3.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. (a)

 

47,395

 

1,680,153

 

Four Seasons Hotels, Inc.

 

8,800

 

622,160

 

International Speedway Corp., Class A

 

15,311

 

830,622

 

Life Time Fitness, Inc. (a)

 

11,771

 

317,581

 

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc.

 

26,967

 

1,612,627

 

Texas Roadhouse, Inc., Class A (a)

 

12,814

 

359,817

 

 

 

 

 

5,422,960

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet & Catalog Retail (3.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

Amazon.com, Inc. (a)

 

36,900

 

1,264,563

 

eBay, Inc. (a)

 

89,500

 

3,334,770

 

 

 

 

 

4,599,333

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media (3.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Carmike Cinemas, Inc.

 

22,746

 

847,971

 

Comcast Corp., Class A (a)

 

46,645

 

1,557,943

 

Getty Images, Inc. (a)

 

20,391

 

1,450,004

 

Univision Communications, Inc., Class A (a)

 

42,540

 

1,177,932

 

Westwood One, Inc. (a)

 

27,140

 

552,299

 

 

 

 

 

5,586,149

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multi-line Retail (3.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. (a)

 

52,049

 

1,495,368

 

Kohl’s Corp. (a)

 

32,822

 

1,694,600

 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

 

33,700

 

1,688,707

 

 

 

 

 

4,878,675

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specialty Retail (2.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (a)

 

48,100

 

1,757,574

 

Chico’s FAS, Inc. (a)

 

11,600

 

327,816

 

The Children’s Place Retail

 

12,461

 

595,013

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 



 

 

 

SHARES

 

MARKET VALUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON STOCKS (CONTINUED)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specialty Retail (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Guitar Center, Inc. (a)

 

5,348

 

$

293,231

 

Urban Outfitters, Inc. (a)

 

12,000

 

575,640

 

 

 

 

 

3,549,274

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONSUMER STAPLES (3.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beverages (0.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

PepsiCo, Inc.

 

24,800

 

1,315,144

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing (1.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

United Natural Foods, Inc. (a)

 

24,791

 

709,766

 

Walgreen Co.

 

43,180

 

1,918,056

 

 

 

 

 

2,627,822

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal Products (0.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

Avon Products, Inc.

 

30,915

 

1,327,490

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENERGY (2.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Energy Equipment & Services (1.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

CARBO Ceramics, Inc.

 

8,086

 

567,233

 

Hydril (a)

 

9,602

 

560,853

 

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.

 

44,273

 

1,107,710

 

 

 

 

 

2,235,796

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oil & Gas (0.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

Golar LNG Ltd. (a)

 

34,003

 

433,538

 

Pioneer Drilling Co. (a)

 

21,745

 

299,429

 

Suncor Energy, Inc.

 

16,745

 

673,316

 

 

 

 

 

1,406,283

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FINANCIALS (7.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Markets (3.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (a)

 

23,763

 

1,474,019

 

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

 

13,850

 

1,523,361

 

SEI Investments Co.

 

21,000

 

759,360

 

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

 

24,600

 

1,460,748

 

 

 

 

 

5,217,488

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 



 

 

 

SHARES

 

MARKET VALUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON STOCKS (CONTINUED)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial Banks (0.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

Commerce Bancorp, Inc.

 

19,300

 

$

626,671

 

Signature Bank (a)

 

22,100

 

585,871

 

 

 

 

 

1,212,542

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consumer Finance (0.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

SLM Corp.

 

27,430

 

1,367,111

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services (0.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

Financial Federal Corp.

 

38,035

 

1,345,298

 

International Securities Exchange, Inc., Class A (a)

 

2,500

 

65,000

 

 

 

 

 

1,410,298

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Insurance (1.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

Brown & Brown, Inc.

 

14,633

 

674,435

 

Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd.

 

12,422

 

436,633

 

Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd.

 

15,678

 

465,637

 

 

 

 

 

1,576,705

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HEALTH CARE (19.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biotechnology (4.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

Affymetrix, Inc. (a)

 

22,100

 

946,764

 

Amgen, Inc. (a)

 

25,600

 

1,490,176

 

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (a)

 

7,611

 

358,021

 

Encysive Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

 

25,200

 

257,544

 

Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

 

37,798

 

385,162

 

Genentech, Inc. (a)

 

20,600

 

1,166,166

 

Martek Biosciences Corp. (a)

 

22,566

 

1,313,115

 

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (a)

 

5,600

 

213,136

 

Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

 

12,600

 

395,010

 

Oscient Pharmaceuticals Corp. (a)

 

54,890

 

128,443

 

Vicuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

 

24,700

 

389,272

 

 

 

 

 

7,042,809

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies (6.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Alcon, Inc.

 

12,725

 

1,136,215

 

Boston Scientific Corp. (a)

 

12,855

 

376,523

 

CardioDynamics International Corp. (a)

 

61,124

 

178,482

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 



 

 

 

SHARES

 

MARKET VALUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON STOCKS (CONTINUED)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Foxhollow Technologies, Inc. (a)

 

21,200

 

$

597,840

 

IntraLase Corp. (a)

 

20,300

 

339,822

 

Kyphon, Inc. (a)

 

21,000

 

528,570

 

Medtronic, Inc.

 

49,110

 

2,502,155

 

PolyMedica Corp.

 

32,984

 

1,047,572

 

ResMed, Inc. (a)

 

36,035

 

2,032,374

 

Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (a)

 

12,495

 

972,236

 

 

 

 

 

9,711,789

 

Health Care Providers & Services (6.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

The Advisory Board Co. (a)

 

12,300

 

537,510

 

Caremark Rx, Inc. (a)

 

21,355

 

849,502

 

Express Scripts, Inc., Class A (a)

 

6,800

 

592,892

 

Lincare Holdings, Inc. (a)

 

39,866

 

1,763,273

 

Patterson Companies, Inc. (a)

 

34,158

 

1,706,192

 

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

 

29,590

 

2,822,294

 

VCA Antech, Inc. (a)

 

46,469

 

940,068

 

 

 

 

 

9,211,731

 

Pharmaceuticals (2.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

Allergan, Inc.

 

12,825

 

890,953

 

Eli Lilly & Co.

 

17,775

 

926,077

 

Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp., Class A

 

8,275

 

248,085

 

MGI Pharma, Inc. (a)

 

10,200

 

257,754

 

Nektar Therapeutics (a)

 

26,000

 

362,440

 

Pfizer, Inc.

 

42,030

 

1,104,128

 

 

 

 

 

3,789,437

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDUSTRIALS (15.8%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Air Freight & Logistics (1.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

UTI Worldwide, Inc.

 

31,185

 

2,165,798

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies (8.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

51job, Inc. (a)(b)

 

5,300

 

90,047

 

Alliance Data Systems Corp. (a)

 

11,700

 

472,680

 

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. (a)

 

45,662

 

1,540,636

 

ChoicePoint, Inc. (a)

 

12,100

 

485,331

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 



 

 

 

SHARES

 

MARKET VALUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON STOCKS (CONTINUED)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Cintas Corp.

 

37,915

 

$

1,566,269

 

The Corporate Executive Board Co.

 

41,049

 

2,625,084

 

Education Management Corp. (a)

 

50,571

 

1,413,459

 

Monster Worldwide, Inc. (a)

 

16,000

 

448,800

 

Resources Connection, Inc. (a)

 

15,100

 

316,043

 

Robert Half International, Inc.

 

33,900

 

913,944

 

Stericycle, Inc. (a)

 

9,846

 

435,193

 

Strayer Education, Inc.

 

4,200

 

475,944

 

Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (a)

 

25,825

 

950,360

 

West Corp. (a)

 

40,422

 

1,293,504

 

 

 

 

 

13,027,294

 

Construction & Engineering (0.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., N.V.

 

10,137

 

446,332

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment (0.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

II-VI, Inc. (a)

 

15,476

 

269,902

 

Industrial Conglomerates (2.3%)

 

 

 

 

 

3M Co.

 

21,610

 

1,851,761

 

General Electric Co.

 

44,800

 

1,615,488

 

 

 

 

 

3,467,249

 

Machinery (1.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Danaher Corp.

 

47,510

 

2,537,509

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors (1.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Fastenal Co.

 

39,085

 

2,161,791

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (31.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communications Equipment (3.7%)

 

 

 

 

 

Avocent Corp. (a)

 

15,355

 

394,009

 

Ixia (a)

 

31,376

 

558,179

 

Juniper Networks, Inc. (a)

 

75,400

 

1,663,324

 

Packeteer, Inc. (a)

 

28,422

 

437,415

 

Polycom, Inc. (a)

 

69,625

 

1,180,144

 

Research In Motion Ltd. (a)

 

19,600

 

1,497,832

 

 

 

 

 

5,730,903

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 



 

 

 

SHARES

 

MARKET VALUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON STOCKS (CONTINUED)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Computers & Peripherals (3.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

Dell, Inc. (a)

 

59,250

 

$

2,276,385

 

EMC Corp. (a)

 

97,175

 

1,197,196

 

Network Appliance, Inc. (a)

 

49,100

 

1,358,106

 

 

 

 

 

4,831,687

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment & Instruments (1.6%)

 

 

 

 

 

Cogent, Inc. (a)

 

17,000

 

428,060

 

Cognex Corp.

 

22,728

 

565,472

 

National Instruments Corp.

 

52,856

 

1,429,755

 

 

 

 

 

2,423,287

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services (4.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

Ctrip.com International Ltd. (a)(b)

 

3,405

 

128,879

 

VeriSign, Inc. (a)

 

38,300

 

1,099,210

 

WebEx Communications, Inc. (a)

 

42,011

 

907,017

 

Websense, Inc. (a)

 

8,700

 

468,060

 

Yahoo! Inc. (a)

 

112,800

 

3,823,920

 

 

 

 

 

6,427,086

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IT Services (6.2%)

 

 

 

 

 

Accenture Ltd., Class A (a)

 

69,300

 

1,673,595

 

CheckFree Corp. (a)

 

19,200

 

782,592

 

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Class A (a)

 

13,100

 

605,220

 

First Data Corp.

 

51,725

 

2,033,310

 

Forrester Research, Inc. (a)

 

26,297

 

370,262

 

Paychex, Inc.

 

76,685

 

2,516,802

 

SRA International, Inc., Class A (a)

 

23,998

 

1,445,879

 

 

 

 

 

9,427,660

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office Electronics (1.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

Zebra Technologies Corp., Class A (a)

 

33,887

 

1,609,294

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment (8.9%)

 

 

 

 

 

Altera Corp. (a)

 

32,500

 

642,850

 

Intel Corp.

 

44,190

 

1,026,533

 

Intersil Corp., Class A

 

20,956

 

362,958

 

Linear Technology Corp.

 

40,115

 

1,536,805

 

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (a)

 

13,100

 

502,254

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 



 

 

 

SHARES

 

MARKET VALUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON STOCKS (CONTINUED)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.

 

67,000

 

$

2,738,290

 

Microchip Technology, Inc.

 

54,573

 

1,419,444

 

Semtech Corp. (a)

 

44,640

 

797,717

 

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (a)

 

15,500

 

460,505

 

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (b)

 

182,889

 

1,550,899

 

Xilinx, Inc.

 

88,600

 

2,589,778

 

 

 

 

 

13,628,033

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Software (3.1%)

 

 

 

 

 

Agile Software Corp. (a)

 

54,100

 

393,848

 

Altiris, Inc. (a)

 

11,356

 

270,841

 

American Reprographics Co. (a)

 

30,380

 

435,953

 

Interwoven, Inc. (a)

 

48,137

 

374,987

 

Intuit, Inc. (a)

 

27,100

 

1,186,167

 

NAVTEQ Corp. (a)

 

12,500

 

541,875

 

Opsware, Inc. (a)

 

73,300

 

378,228

 

Red Hat, Inc. (a)

 

45,200

 

493,132

 

Salesforce.com, Inc. (a)

 

43,100

 

646,069

 

 

 

 

 

4,721,100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MATERIALS (1.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chemicals (1.0%)

 

 

 

 

 

Praxair, Inc.

 

33,045

 

1,581,534

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES (0.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services (0.4%)

 

 

 

 

 

Telephone & Data Systems, Inc.

 

6,800

 

554,880

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (COST OF $134,443,339)

 

 

 

150,663,945

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 



 

 

 

PAR VALUE

 

MARKET VALUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (1.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REPURCHASE AGREEMENT (1.5%)

 

 

 

 

 

Repurchase agreement with State Street Bank & Trust Co., dated 03/31/05, due 04/01/05 at 2.45%, collateralized by U.S. Treasury Bonds with various maturities to 08/15/23, market value of $2,379,037 (repurchase proceeds $2,328,158) (Cost of $2,328,000)

 

$

2,328,000

 

$

2,328,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS (100.1%) (COST OF $136,771,339)

 

 

 

152,991,945

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER ASSETS & LIABILITIES, NET (-0.1)%

 

 

 

(118,638

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

NET ASSETS (100.0%)

 

 

 

$

152,873,307

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE (26,445,833 SHARES OUTSTANDING)

 

 

 

$

5.78

 

 


NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS:

(a) Non-income producing security.

(b) Represents an American Depositary Receipt.

 

Gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation of investments at March 31, 2005 is as follows:

 

 

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

 

$

31,169,960

 

Gross unrealized depreciation

 

(14,949,354

)

Net unrealized appreciation

 

$

16,220,606

 

 


 


 

Item 2. Controls and Procedures.

 

(a)   The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, based on their evaluation of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing of this report, have concluded that such controls and procedures are adequately designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the registrant in Form N-Q is accumulated and communicated to the registrant’s management, including the principal executive officer and principal financial officer, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

(b)   There were no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably 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 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)) attached hereto as Exhibit 99.CERT.

 



 

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)

 

Liberty All-Star Growth Fund, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By (Signature and Title)

 

/S/ William R. Parmentier, Jr.

 

 

 

William R. Parmentier, Jr., President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

 

May 26, 2005

 

 

 

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/ William R. Parmentier, Jr.

 

 

 

William R. Parmentier, Jr., President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

 

May 26, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By (Signature and Title)

 

/S/ J. Kevin Connaughton

 

 

 

J. Kevin Connaughton, Treasurer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

 

May 26, 2005