N-Q 1 nq073106bcf.htm N-Q FILING

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

FORM N-Q

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

_______________________________

Investment Company Act file number 811-5357

DWS Blue Chip Fund

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

222 South Riverside Plaza

Chicago, IL 60606

(Address of principal executive offices)             (Zip code)

 

Paul Schubert

345 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10154

(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 454-7190

Date of fiscal year end: 10/31

Date of reporting period: 07/31/06

Form N-Q is to be used by registered management investment companies, other than small business investment companies registered on Form N-5 (§§ 239.24 and 274.5 of this chapter), to file reports with the Commission, not later than 60 days after the close of the first and third fiscal quarters, pursuant to rule 30b1-5 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30b1-4). The Commission may use the information provided on Form N-Q in its regulatory, disclosure review, inspection, and policymaking roles.

A registrant is required to disclose the information specified by Form N-Q, and the Commission will make this information public. A registrant is not required to respond to the collection of information contained in Form N-Q unless the Form displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) control number. Please direct comments concerning the accuracy of the information collection burden estimate and any suggestions for reducing the burden to the Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20549-0609. The OMB has reviewed this collection of information under the clearance requirements of 44 U.S.C. § 3507.

 


ITEM 1. SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

 


Investment Portfolio

as of July 31, 2006 (Unaudited)

 

 

DWS Blue Chip Fund

 

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

Common Stocks 98.8%

 

Consumer Discretionary 9.3%

 

Auto Components 0.2%

 

TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.*

 

42,300

 

1,095,570

Hotels Restaurants & Leisure 2.2%

 

Brinker International, Inc.

 

115,400

 

3,738,960

Starbucks Corp.*

 

224,200

 

7,681,092

YUM! Brands, Inc.

 

22,800

 

1,026,000

 

12,446,052

Household Durables 0.4%

 

Leggett & Platt, Inc.

 

93,800

 

2,140,516

Internet & Catalog Retail 0.4%

 

Coldwater Creek, Inc.*

 

108,200

 

2,156,426

Media 4.0%

 

Clear Channel Communications, Inc.

 

105,400

 

3,051,330

Comcast Corp. “A”*

 

49,400

 

1,698,372

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. “A”

 

9,300

 

307,644

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

 

169,100

 

9,520,330

The DIRECTV Group, Inc.*

 

489,300

 

8,342,565

 

22,920,241

Multiline Retail 0.0%

 

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.

 

2,100

 

132,216

Specialty Retail 1.4%

 

Barnes & Noble, Inc.

 

179,600

 

6,020,192

Claire’s Stores, Inc.

 

72,500

 

1,814,675

 

7,834,867

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods 0.7%

 

Polo Ralph Lauren Corp.

 

72,600

 

4,141,104

Consumer Staples 10.6%

 

Beverages 3.5%

 

Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.

 

212,600

 

7,068,950

PepsiCo, Inc.

 

201,600

 

12,777,408

 

19,846,358

Food & Staples Retailing 3.6%

 

Costco Wholesale Corp.

 

49,200

 

2,595,792

Kroger Co.

 

302,100

 

6,927,153

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

 

240,600

 

10,706,700

 

20,229,645

Food Products 1.1%

 

General Mills, Inc.

 

109,300

 

5,672,670

H.J. Heinz Co.

 

15,500

 

650,535

 

6,323,205

Household Products 1.6%

 

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

 

155,100

 

9,200,532

Tobacco 0.8%

 

Altria Group, Inc.

 

56,000

 

4,478,320

Energy 10.5%

 

 

 


 

Energy Equipment & Services 0.5%

 

Unit Corp.* (a)

 

52,400

 

3,072,736

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels 10.0%

 

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

 

156,300

 

7,149,162

Apache Corp.

 

97,000

 

6,835,590

ExxonMobil Corp.

 

374,686

 

25,381,230

Hess Corp.

 

79,100

 

4,184,390

Valero Energy Corp.

 

105,900

 

7,140,837

XTO Energy, Inc.

 

124,301

 

5,840,904

 

56,532,113

Financials 19.8%

 

Capital Markets 4.2%

 

Mellon Financial Corp.

 

46,200

 

1,617,000

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

 

151,300

 

11,017,666

State Street Corp.

 

12,700

 

762,762

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

 

67,400

 

10,295,350

 

23,692,778

Commercial Banks 3.2%

 

US Bancorp

 

168,600

 

5,395,200

Wells Fargo & Co.

 

176,400

 

12,760,776

 

18,155,976

Consumer Finance 1.4%

 

Capital One Financial Corp.

 

101,100

 

7,820,085

Diversified Financial Services 5.6%

 

Bank of America Corp.

 

360,400

 

18,571,412

Citigroup, Inc.

 

273,966

 

13,235,297

 

31,806,709

Insurance 3.5%

 

American Financial Group, Inc.

 

2,400

 

101,064

MetLife, Inc.

 

173,900

 

9,042,800

Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp.*

 

162,700

 

5,510,649

W.R. Berkley Corp.

 

147,018

 

5,292,648

 

19,947,161

Real Estate Investment Trusts 1.9%

 

Apartment Investment & Management Co. “A” (REIT)

 

7,200

 

346,248

Equity Office Properties Trust (REIT)

 

61,800

 

2,342,838

Equity Residential (REIT)

 

37,500

 

1,744,125

Hospitality Properties Trust (REIT)

 

20,100

 

875,757

ProLogis (REIT)

 

32,900

 

1,821,015

Simon Property Group, Inc. (REIT)

 

26,300

 

2,249,439

Vornado Realty Trust (REIT)

 

17,000

 

1,777,350

 

11,156,772

Health Care 13.0%

 

Biotechnology 0.7%

 

Genentech, Inc.*

 

48,900

 

3,952,098

Health Care Equipment & Supplies 1.2%

 

Dade Behring Holdings, Inc.

 

12,900

 

525,417

Hillenbrand Industries, Inc.

 

4,100

 

203,606

Hospira, Inc.*

 

135,800

 

5,933,102

 

6,662,125

Health Care Providers & Services 5.8%

 

AmerisourceBergen Corp.

 

167,100

 

7,185,300

Coventry Health Care, Inc.*

 

111,500

 

5,876,050

Humana, Inc.*

 

99,500

 

5,565,035

Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings*

 

20,800

 

1,339,936

 

 


 

McKesson Corp.

 

150,200

 

7,568,578

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

 

59,500

 

2,845,885

WellCare Health Plans, Inc.*

 

44,800

 

2,197,888

WellPoint, Inc.*

 

5,500

 

409,750

 

32,988,422

Life Sciences Tools & Services 0.1%

 

Millipore Corp.* (a)

 

8,200

 

513,730

Pharmaceuticals 5.2%

 

Abraxis Bioscience, Inc.*

 

45,100

 

904,255

Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc.*

 

133,300

 

4,141,631

Kos Pharmaceuticals, Inc.*

 

65,600

 

2,711,904

Merck & Co., Inc.

 

131,700

 

5,303,559

Mylan Laboratories, Inc.

 

37,500

 

823,500

Pfizer, Inc.

 

606,100

 

15,752,539

 

29,637,388

Industrials 11.8%

 

Aerospace & Defense 4.9%

 

Boeing Co.

 

124,600

 

9,646,532

General Dynamics Corp.

 

32,500

 

2,178,150

Lockheed Martin Corp.

 

123,200

 

9,816,576

Raytheon Co.

 

130,100

 

5,863,607

 

27,504,865

Air Freight & Logistics 0.3%

 

United Parcel Service, Inc. “B”

 

24,200

 

1,667,622

Airlines 0.6%

 

AMR Corp.*

 

106,200

 

2,336,400

Southwest Airlines Co.

 

57,000

 

1,025,430

 

3,361,830

Commercial Services & Supplies 2.1%

 

Republic Services, Inc.

 

33,300

 

1,337,328

Robert Half International, Inc.

 

144,500

 

4,676,020

Waste Management, Inc.

 

174,100

 

5,985,558

 

11,998,906

Industrial Conglomerates 1.7%

 

General Electric Co.

 

196,800

 

6,433,392

Teleflex, Inc.

 

57,900

 

3,305,511

 

9,738,903

Machinery 0.3%

 

Toro Co.

 

42,000

 

1,739,220

Road & Rail 1.2%

 

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

 

10,700

 

737,337

Ryder System, Inc.

 

118,800

 

5,987,520

 

6,724,857

Trading Companies & Distributors 0.7%

 

WESCO International, Inc.*

 

70,800

 

4,124,100

Information Technology 13.6%

 

Communications Equipment 1.3%

 

Cisco Systems, Inc.*

 

327,600

 

5,847,660

Corning, Inc.*

 

77,200

 

1,472,204

 

7,319,864

Computers & Peripherals 3.4%

 

Dell, Inc.*

 

200,700

 

4,351,176

EMC Corp.*

 

188,100

 

1,909,215

Hewlett-Packard Co.

 

288,000

 

9,190,080

Western Digital Corp.* (a)

 

207,500

 

3,639,550

 

 


 

 

19,090,021

Internet Software & Services 1.1%

 

eBay, Inc.*

 

47,400

 

1,140,918

Google, Inc. “A”*

 

7,700

 

2,976,820

Yahoo!, Inc.* (a)

 

78,900

 

2,141,346

 

6,259,084

IT Services 1.3%

 

Acxiom Corp.

 

59,000

 

1,444,320

Computer Sciences Corp.*

 

117,800

 

6,171,542

 

7,615,862

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 4.4%

 

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.*

 

173,200

 

3,358,348

Atmel Corp.*

 

652,600

 

3,125,954

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. “B”*

 

158,000

 

4,506,160

Lam Research Corp.*

 

103,300

 

4,296,247

Micron Technology, Inc.*

 

313,300

 

4,884,347

National Semiconductor Corp.

 

214,800

 

4,996,248

 

25,167,304

Software 2.1%

 

BMC Software, Inc.*

 

105,000

 

2,459,100

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.*

 

366,000

 

5,925,540

Compuware Corp.*

 

75,200

 

525,648

Microsoft Corp.

 

73,200

 

1,758,996

Symantec Corp.*

 

85,500

 

1,485,135

 

12,154,419

Materials 4.3%

 

Chemicals 0.6%

 

Airgas, Inc.

 

1,400

 

50,750

Celanese Corp. “A”

 

181,800

 

3,492,378

 

3,543,128

Metals & Mining 3.7%

 

Nucor Corp.

 

101,800

 

5,412,706

Phelps Dodge Corp.

 

69,900

 

6,105,066

Southern Copper Corp. (a)

 

28,900

 

2,788,850

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

 

75,400

 

4,374,708

United States Steel Corp.

 

37,900

 

2,390,353

 

21,071,683

Telecommunication Services 2.5%

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services 2.3%

 

Verizon Communications, Inc.

 

378,600

 

12,804,252

Wireless Telecommunication Services 0.2%

 

Telephone & Data Systems, Inc.

 

16,300

 

666,018

US Cellular Corp.*

 

12,300

 

739,845

 

1,405,863

Utilities 3.4%

 

Electric Utilities 3.1%

 

Exelon Corp.

 

147,700

 

8,551,830

FirstEnergy Corp.

 

162,100

 

9,077,600

 

17,629,430

Multi-Utilities 0.3%

 

Sempra Energy

 

32,700

 

1,578,102

Total Common Stocks (Cost $517,812,661)

 

561,382,460

 

Principal

Amount ($)

 

Value ($)

 

 


 

 

US Treasury Obligations 0.1%

 

US Treasury Bill 4.975%**, 10/19/2006 (b) (Cost $630,046)

 

637,000

 

630,046

 

 

Shares

 

Value ($)

 

 

Securities Lending Collateral 1.5%

 

Daily Assets Fund Institutional, 5.24% (c) (d)
(Cost $8,645,310)

 

 

8,645,310

 

8,645,310

 

Cash Equivalents 1.3%

 

Cash Management QP Trust, 5.3% (e)
(Cost $7,053,646)

 

 

7,053,646

 

7,053,646

 

% of

Net Assets

 

Value ($)

Total Investment Portfolio (Cost $ 534,141,663)

101.7

 

577,711,462

Other Assets and Liabilities, Net

(1.7)

 

(9,611,938)

Net Assets

100.0

 

568,099,524

 

For information on the Fund’s policies regarding the valuation of investments and other significant accounting policies, please refer to the Fund’s most recent semi-annual or annual financial statements.

*

Non-income producing security.

**

Annualized yield at time of purchase; not a coupon rate.

(a)

All or a portion of these securities were on loan. The value of all securities loaned at July 31, 2006 amounted to $8,322,365 which is 1.5% of net assets.

(b)

At July 31, 2006, this security has been pledged, in whole or in part, to cover initial margin requirements for open futures contracts.

(c)

Daily Assets Fund Institutional, an affiliated fund, is managed by Deutsche Asset Management, Inc. The rate shown is the annualized seven-day yield at period end.

(d)

Represents collateral held in connection with securities lending.

(e)

Cash Management QP Trust, an affiliated fund, is managed by Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The rate shown is the annualized seven-day yield at period end.

REIT: Real Estate Investment Trust

At July 31, 2006, open future contracts purchased were as follows:

Futures

 

Expiration
Date

 

Contracts

 

Aggregated
Face
Value ($)

 

Value ($)

 

Unrealized
Appreciation ($)

 

S&P 500 Index

 

9/14/2006

 

25

 

7,955,026

 

8,011,250

 

56,224

 

 

 

 

 

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:

DWS Blue Chip Fund

 

By:

/s/Michael G. Clark

 

Michael G. Clark

President

 

Date:

September 22, 2006

 

 

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.

 

Registrant:

DWS Blue Chip Fund

 

By:

/s/Michael G. Clark

 

Michael G. Clark

President

 

Date:

September 22, 2006

 

 

By:

/s/Paul Schubert

 

Paul Schubert

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

Date:

September 22, 2006