Saratoga Research & Investment Management

Saratoga Research & Investment Management as of Sept. 30, 2012

Portfolio Holdings for Saratoga Research & Investment Management

Saratoga Research & Investment Management holds 53 positions in its portfolio as reported in the September 2012 quarterly 13F filing

Company (Ticker) Portfolio Weight Valued At Change in Shares Share Count Share Price
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) 4.7 $35M 476k 73.80
Oracle Corporation (ORCL) 4.2 $32M 1.0M 31.46
International Business Machines (IBM) 4.2 $31M 152k 207.45
Medtronic 4.1 $31M 715k 43.12
3M Company (MMM) 4.1 $31M 333k 92.42
Automatic Data Processing (ADP) 4.1 $31M 524k 58.66
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 4.1 $30M 1.0M 29.76
Omni (OMC) 4.0 $30M 586k 51.56
Coca-Cola Company (KO) 4.0 $30M 789k 37.93
Procter & Gamble Company (PG) 4.0 $29M 424k 69.36
McDonald's Corporation (MCD) 3.9 $29M 316k 91.75
Cisco Systems (CSCO) 3.9 $29M 1.5M 19.09
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) 3.9 $29M 419k 68.91
Stryker Corporation (SYK) 3.8 $29M 512k 55.66
Nike (NKE) 3.7 $28M 293k 94.91
General Dynamics Corporation (GD) 3.7 $27M 414k 66.12
United Technologies Corporation 3.4 $26M 325k 78.29
Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO) 3.4 $25M 160k 157.81
SYSCO Corporation (SYY) 3.2 $24M 774k 31.27
Abbott Laboratories (ABT) 3.1 $23M 333k 68.56
Becton, Dickinson and (BDX) 2.6 $20M 251k 78.56
Pepsi (PEP) 2.6 $20M 275k 70.77
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) 1.9 $14M 163k 88.20
Varian Medical Systems 1.8 $14M 223k 60.32
McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC) 1.8 $13M 213k 62.04
C.R. Bard 1.7 $13M 123k 104.65
Adobe Systems Incorporated (ADBE) 1.7 $12M 382k 32.43
SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) 1.6 $12M 69k 171.90
Total System Services 1.6 $12M 496k 23.70
Nestle SA Reg Shs. Ser. B Spons (NSRGY) 1.2 $9.1M 145k 63.21
Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) 1.0 $7.3M 68k 107.22
FactSet Research Systems (FDS) 0.8 $5.9M 61k 96.43
C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW) 0.5 $3.5M 60k 58.58
Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) 0.4 $2.8M 40k 69.90
Accenture (ACN) 0.3 $2.2M 32k 70.03
Ecolab (ECL) 0.1 $685k 11k 64.82
Oneok Partners 0.1 $506k 8.5k 59.53
Public Storage 0.1 $548k 21k 26.54
Diageo (DEO) 0.1 $412k 3.7k 112.72
Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO) 0.1 $466k 14k 34.35
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) 0.1 $340k 10k 33.75
Paychex (PAYX) 0.1 $398k 12k 33.31
Spectra Energy 0.1 $359k 12k 29.37
National Grid 0.1 $346k 6.3k 55.36
Altria (MO) 0.0 $273k 8.2k 33.37
Kellogg Company (K) 0.0 $266k 5.1k 51.70
Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) 0.0 $326k 3.7k 88.11
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners 0.0 $307k 3.7k 82.42
Pfizer (PFE) 0.0 $250k 10k 24.83
Chevron Corporation (CVX) 0.0 $255k 2.2k 116.70
Novartis (NVS) 0.0 $211k 3.5k 61.16
Lorillard 0.0 $239k 2.1k 116.59
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) 0.0 $207k 3.9k 53.59