John Paulson has been well known as a hedge fund manager because of the profits he made from short selling many of the key financial stocks. Yet his new filing shows a large long position as of the quarter-end June 30, 2009. For example, it lists a huge stake in Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). There were many smaller company stakes, but some of the medium-sized stakes (for Paulson that is) are in Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). Below are the rest of his financial holdings:
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was listed as some $2.217474 billion stake via 167,990,464 shares.
Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) was listed as $371.960 million via a stake of 17,000,000 shares of common stock.
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) was listed as $35.5 million via a 5,000,000 share stake.
First Horizon National Corp. (NYSE: FHN) was listed as $36 million via stake of 3,000,000 shares of common stock.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) was listed as $294.88 million via a stake of some 2,000,000 shares of common stock.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) was listed as $238.77 million via a stake of 7,000,000 shares of common stock.
Marshall & Ilsley Corp. (NYSE: MI) was listed as $57.6 million via a stake of 12,000,000 shares of common stock.
People’s United Financial Inc. (NASDAQ: PBCT) was listed as $41.443 million via stake of 2,750,000 shares of common stock.
Ultrashort Financial ProShars (NYSE: SKF) was listed as $83.58 million via some 2,000,000 shares.
Regions Financial Corp. (NYSE: RF) was listed as $141.4 million via a stake of 35,000,000 shares of common stock.
State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT) was listed as $33.04 million via a stake of 700,000 shares of common stock.
Suntrust Bank Inc. (NYSE: STI) was listed as $24.675 million via a stake of 1,500,000 shares of common stock.
The FULL SEC FILING is here, and there are many non-financial stocks in there.
JON C. OGG
AUGUST 12, 2009
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