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ADAMS DIVERSIFIED EQUITY FUND, INC.
 
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2020
(unaudited)
Shares
Value (a)
Common Stocks — 99.7%
Communication Services — 10.3%
Activision Blizzard, Inc.
139,700 $ 11,308,715
Alphabet Inc. Class A (b)
40,100 58,770,560
AT&T Inc.
457,382 13,039,961
Charter Communications, Inc. Class A (b)
23,400 14,609,556
Comcast Corporation Class A
668,200 30,910,932
Facebook, Inc. Class A (b)
196,800 51,541,920
Netflix, Inc. (b)
18,900 9,450,567
ViacomCBS Inc. Class B
196,400 5,501,164
Walt Disney Company
132,700 16,465,416
211,598,791
Consumer Discretionary — 12.0%
Amazon.com, Inc. (b)
33,900 106,741,947
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (b)
11,500 14,302,665
Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc.
132,800 7,686,464
General Motors Company
196,300 5,808,517
Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc.
114,400 9,760,608
Home Depot, Inc.
118,100 32,797,551
Las Vegas Sands Corp.
180,700 8,431,462
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
123,900 20,550,054
Magna International Inc.
129,400 5,920,050
NVR, Inc. (b)
1,800 7,349,616
Target Corporation
169,700 26,714,174
246,063,108
Consumer Staples — 7.1%
Coca-Cola Company
600,400 29,641,748
Costco Wholesale Corporation
63,600 22,578,000
Mondelez International, Inc. Class A
348,100 19,998,345
PepsiCo, Inc.
118,700 16,451,820
Philip Morris International Inc.
263,500 19,759,865
Procter & Gamble Company
115,350 16,032,496
Walmart Inc.
151,100 21,140,401
145,602,675
Energy — 2.2%
Adams Natural Resources Fund, Inc. (c)(g)
2,186,774 21,386,650
Chevron Corporation
140,200 10,094,400
ConocoPhillips
210,300 6,906,252
Exxon Mobil Corporation
86,700 2,976,411
Valero Energy Corporation
69,000 2,989,080
44,352,793

Schedule of Investments (continued)
September 30, 2020
(unaudited)
Shares
Value (a)
Financials — 9.8%
Aon plc
84,800 $ 17,494,240
Bank of America Corp.
1,282,300 30,890,607
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B (b)
82,400 17,546,256
Capital One Financial Corporation
185,900 13,358,774
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
206,600 20,670,330
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
283,800 27,321,426
MetLife, Inc.
501,300 18,633,321
Morgan Stanley
358,500 17,333,475
S&P Global, Inc.
63,200 22,789,920
T. Rowe Price Group
120,900 15,501,798
201,540,147
Health Care — 14.1%
Abbott Laboratories
256,400 27,904,012
AbbVie, Inc.
281,100 24,621,549
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (b)
91,200 10,436,016
AmerisourceBergen Corporation
155,600 15,080,752
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
395,000 23,814,550
Centene Corporation (b)
231,500 13,503,395
CVS Health Corporation
159,200 9,297,280
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (b)
186,300 14,870,466
Eli Lilly and Company
132,000 19,538,640
Johnson & Johnson
158,300 23,567,704
Merck & Co., Inc.
106,800 8,859,060
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
93,800 41,414,576
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
137,900 42,993,083
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (b)
52,100 14,177,452
290,078,535
Industrials — 8.2%
Caterpillar Inc.
94,100 14,035,015
Cintas Corporation
23,800 7,921,354
Honeywell International Inc.
149,800 24,658,578
Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund
192,100 14,787,858
Kansas City Southern
76,700 13,869,661
L3Harris Technologies Inc.
88,800 15,081,792
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.
111,800 10,290,072
Parker-Hannifin Corporation
73,500 14,871,990
Raytheon Technologies Corporation
299,300 17,221,722
Union Pacific Corporation
142,400 28,034,288
United Rentals, Inc. (b)
43,800 7,643,100
168,415,430

Schedule of Investments (continued)
September 30, 2020
(unaudited)
Shares
Value (a)
Information Technology — 28.0%
Accenture plc Class A
39,500 $ 8,926,605
Adobe Inc. (b)
66,300 32,515,509
Amphenol Corporation Class A
39,300 4,255,011
Apple Inc.
1,125,100 130,297,831
Applied Materials, Inc.
184,700 10,980,415
CDW Corp.
66,900 7,996,557
Cisco Systems, Inc.
292,800 11,533,392
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
123,700 18,209,877
Intel Corporation
203,200 10,521,696
Lam Research Corporation
44,600 14,796,050
Mastercard Incorporated Class A
96,400 32,599,588
Microsoft Corporation
675,900 142,162,047
NVIDIA Corporation
35,900 19,429,798
Oracle Corporation
122,200 7,295,340
PayPal Holdings Inc. (b)
42,200 8,314,666
QUALCOMM Incorporated
164,200 19,323,056
salesforce.com, inc. (b)
41,000 10,304,120
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
82,500 12,003,750
Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund
161,300 18,823,710
VeriSign, Inc. (b)
58,400 11,963,240
Visa Inc. Class A
211,700 42,333,649
574,585,907
Materials — 1.9%
Linde plc
87,000 20,717,310
LyondellBasell Industries N.V.
71,800 5,061,182
Sherwin-Williams Company
20,200 14,074,148
39,852,640
Real Estate — 2.8%
American Tower Corporation
69,400 16,776,062
CBRE Group, Inc. Class A (b)
141,300 6,636,861
Equinix, Inc.
13,900 10,565,807
Prologis, Inc.
168,100 16,914,222
Simon Property Group, Inc.
93,800 6,066,984
56,959,936
Utilities — 3.3%
Alliant Energy Corporation
241,400 12,468,310
CMS Energy Corporation
215,200 13,215,432
NextEra Energy, Inc.
81,300 22,565,628
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
105,400 6,258,652
WEC Energy Group Inc.
146,400 14,186,160
68,694,182

Schedule of Investments (continued)
September 30, 2020
(unaudited)
Shares
Value (a)
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $1,300,470,437)
$ 2,047,744,144
Other Investments — 0.0%
Financials — 0.0%
Adams Funds Advisers, LLC (b)(d)(g)
(Cost $150,000)
466,000
Short-Term Investments — 0.3%
Money Market Funds — 0.3%
Morgan Stanley Institutional Liquidity Funds Prime Portfolio, 0.16% (e)
5,709,795 5,710,366
Northern Institutional Treasury Portfolio, 0.04% (e)
574,101 574,101
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $6,282,699)
6,284,467
Total — 100.0%
(Cost $1,306,903,136)
2,054,494,611
Other Assets Less Liabilities — 0.0% (942,408 )
Net Assets — 100.0%
$ 2,053,552,203

Schedule of Investments (continued)
September 30, 2020
(unaudited)
Total Return Swap Agreements — 0.1%
Description
Value and
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Assets)
Value and
Unrealized
Depreciation
(Liabilities)
Terms
Contract
Type
Underlying
Security
Termination
Date
Notional
Amount
Receive total return on underlying
security and pay financing
amount based on notional
amount and daily U.S. Federal
Funds rate plus 0.55%.
Long
Procter & Gamble Company (160,300 shares)
7/26/2021
$ 18,870,468 $ 3,504,399 $
Pay total return on underlying security and receive financing amount based on notional amount and daily U.S. Federal Funds rate less 0.45%.
Short
Consumer Staples Select
Sector SPDR Fund
(323,200 shares)
7/26/2021
(18,812,923) (2,043,691)
        
Gross unrealized gain (loss) on open total return swap agreements $ 3,504,399 $ (2,043,691)
Net unrealized gain on open total return swap agreements (f) $ 1,460,708
(a)
Common stocks are listed on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ and are valued at the last reported sale price on the day of valuation.
(b)
Presently non-dividend paying.
(c)
Non-controlled affiliate, a closed-end sector fund, registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
(d)
Controlled affiliate valued using fair value procedures.
(e)
Rate presented is as of period-end and represents the annualized yield earned over the previous seven days.
(f)
Counterparty for all open total return swap agreements is Morgan Stanley. At September 30, 2020, $1,500,000 in cash collateral was held by the Fund.
(g)
During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, investments in affiliates were as follows:

 

Affiliate  Shares held   Net realized gain (loss) and capital gain distributions   Dividend income   Change in unrealized appreciation   Value
September 30, 2020
 
Adams Funds Advisers, LLC (controlled)   n/a   $-   $-   $-   $466,000 
Adams Natural Resources Fund, Inc. (non-controlled)   2,186,774    65,603    590,429    (14,607,650)   21,386,650 
Total       $65,603   $590,429   $(14,607,650)  $21,852,650 

 

Information regarding transactions in equity securities during the quarter can be found on our website at: www.adamsfunds.com.