Ariel Investments

Ariel Investments as of Sept. 30, 2011

Portfolio Holdings for Ariel Investments

Ariel Investments holds 120 positions in its portfolio as reported in the September 2011 quarterly 13F filing

Company (Ticker) Portfolio Weight Valued At Change in Shares Share Count Share Price
Zimmer Holdings (ZBH) 52.2 $110B 2.1M 53480.09
Via 28.5 $60B 1.6M 38739.78
Washington Post Company 14.6 $31B 94k 326969.13
Walgreen Company 2.5 $5.2B 159k 32891.15
Xo Group 1.0 $2.1B 251k 8169.11
Vical Incorporated 0.8 $1.6B 646k 2480.02
Mohawk Industries (MHK) 0.1 $111M 2.6M 42.91
Nordstrom (JWN) 0.0 $77M 1.7M 45.68
Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS) 0.0 $54M 1.5M 34.98
Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) 0.0 $62M 2.8M 21.64
Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) 0.0 $66M 1.4M 49.10
Newell Rubbermaid (NWL) 0.0 $65M 5.5M 11.87
Simpson Manufacturing (SSD) 0.0 $42M 1.7M 24.93
Symmetry Medical 0.0 $44M 5.7M 7.72
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) 0.0 $50M 990k 50.64
Sotheby's 0.0 $39M 1.4M 27.57
Omni (OMC) 0.0 $50M 1.4M 36.84
Meredith Corporation 0.0 $47M 2.1M 22.64
St. Jude Medical 0.0 $37M 1.0M 36.19
T. Rowe Price (TROW) 0.0 $28M 587k 47.77
Tiffany & Co. 0.0 $26M 434k 60.82
Middleby Corporation (MIDD) 0.0 $16M 221k 70.46
Team 0.0 $25M 1.2M 20.98
McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC) 0.0 $25M 547k 46.16
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 0.0 $8.4M 337k 24.89
Goldman Sachs (GS) 0.0 $5.2k 55k 0.09
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) 0.0 $3.9k 130k 0.03
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BK) 0.0 $0 213k 0.00
Blackstone 0.0 $0 1.6M 0.00
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) 0.0 $4.985000 50k 0.00
Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) 0.0 $9.186000 92k 0.00
Abbott Laboratories (ABT) 0.0 $11.371000 114k 0.00
Baxter International (BAX) 0.0 $83.651400 837k 0.00
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) 0.0 $5.6k 88k 0.06
CBS Corporation 0.0 $0 3.1M 0.00
Hospira 0.0 $88k 2.4M 0.04
Carnival Corporation (CCL) 0.0 $0 1.8M 0.00
Franklin Resources (BEN) 0.0 $45k 471k 0.10
International Game Technology 0.0 $96k 6.6M 0.01
Mattel (MAT) 0.0 $20k 780k 0.03
Steelcase (SCS) 0.0 $4.6M 729k 6.31
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation 0.0 $75.218900 752k 0.00
AFLAC Incorporated (AFL) 0.0 $0 1.7M 0.00
Morgan Stanley (MS) 0.0 $4.4M 323k 13.51
Charles River Laboratories (CRL) 0.0 $0 996k 0.00
Blount International 0.0 $0 1.0M 0.00
Matthews International Corporation (MATW) 0.0 $15k 487k 0.03
Herman Miller (MLKN) 0.0 $40k 2.2M 0.02
Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) 0.0 $118k 16M 0.01
DeVry 0.0 $0 2.5M 0.00
Pctel 0.0 $2.6M 418k 6.15
Energizer Holdings 0.0 $35.585800 356k 0.00
Horace Mann Educators Corporation (HMN) 0.0 $8.6k 758k 0.01
Callaway Golf Company (MODG) 0.0 $0 12k 0.00
Shoe Carnival (SCVL) 0.0 $671k 28k 23.61
Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) 0.0 $5.0k 69k 0.07
International Business Machines (IBM) 0.0 $7.7k 44k 0.17
Target Corporation (TGT) 0.0 $6.2M 127k 49.04
Tyco International Ltd S hs 0.0 $4.8M 118k 40.75
Apollo 0.0 $0 375k 0.00
Dell 0.0 $0 4.8M 0.00
Lazard Ltd-cl A shs a 0.0 $122k 5.8M 0.02
Illinois Tool Works (ITW) 0.0 $29k 686k 0.04
Accenture (ACN) 0.0 $91.206600 912k 0.00
CB Richard Ellis 0.0 $0 6.5M 0.00
Markel Corporation (MKL) 0.0 $8.7k 24k 0.36
Gannett 0.0 $123k 13M 0.01
Janus Capital 0.0 $118k 20M 0.01
Chesapeake Energy Corporation 0.0 $0 1.8M 0.00
City National Corporation 0.0 $0 1.6M 0.00
IDEX Corporation (IEX) 0.0 $57k 1.8M 0.03
J.M. Smucker Company (SJM) 0.0 $89k 1.2M 0.07
Contango Oil & Gas Company 0.0 $63.741600 637k 0.00
HCC Insurance Holdings 0.0 $9.1k 335k 0.03
Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) 0.0 $0 3.5M 0.00
Edgewater Technology 0.0 $0 664k 0.00
Avatar Holdings 0.0 $0 220k 0.00
Force Protection 0.0 $24k 6.3M 0.00
JAKKS Pacific 0.0 $1.4k 76k 0.02
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) 0.0 $128k 2.5M 0.05
Sigma Designs 0.0 $1.7M 216k 7.84
American Reprographics Company 0.0 $0 393k 0.00
Imation 0.0 $1.4k 192k 0.01
Littelfuse (LFUS) 0.0 $48k 1.2M 0.04
Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO) 0.0 $99.062000 991k 0.00
Brady Corporation (BRC) 0.0 $0 2.7M 0.00
InfoSpace 0.0 $816.564000 97k 0.01
Multi-Fineline Electronix 0.0 $1.6M 81k 19.94
Knoll 0.0 $14k 1.0M 0.01
Bob Evans Farms 0.0 $0 438k 0.00
Interface 0.0 $68k 5.7M 0.01
Landec Corporation (LFCR) 0.0 $1.6k 305k 0.01
PrivateBan 0.0 $5.2M 687k 7.52
Tecumseh Products Company 0.0 $652k 89k 7.29
Anixter International 0.0 $0 294k 0.00
Mitcham Industries 0.0 $2.6M 230k 11.20
Brink's Company (BCO) 0.0 $0 2.3M 0.00
Gaiam 0.0 $1.0k 306k 0.00
Ballantyne Strong 0.0 $0 853k 0.00
Cowen 0.0 $0 339k 0.00
First American Financial (FAF) 0.0 $0 7.2M 0.00
Orion Energy Systems (OESX) 0.0 $2.7M 1.0M 2.65
Perceptron 0.0 $2.8M 519k 5.41
Pervasive Software 0.0 $2.8M 462k 6.00
Richardson Electronics (RELL) 0.0 $533k 39k 13.62
Astro-Med (ALOT) 0.0 $0 127k 0.00
MEDTOX Scientific (MTOX) 0.0 $666k 51k 13.10
Madison Square Garden 0.0 $36k 1.6M 0.02
Versar 0.0 $1.0M 360k 2.80
Orbcomm 0.0 $1.1M 423k 2.55
Myrexis (MYRX) 0.0 $781k 285k 2.74
KKR & Co 0.0 $40k 3.8M 0.01
Red Lion Hotels Corporation 0.0 $1.4M 207k 6.71
Crown Crafts (CRWS) 0.0 $0 388k 0.00
AuthenTec 0.0 $0 169k 0.00
Market Leader 0.0 $3.2k 1.5M 0.00
CSP (CSPI) 0.0 $0 219k 0.00
21st Century Holding (TCHC) 0.0 $0 250k 0.00
American Electric Technologies 0.0 $0 172k 0.00
Citigroup (C) 0.0 $0 76k 0.00