UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-Q
QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY
Investment Company Act file number: 811-5003
Blue Chip Value Fund, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
1225 17th Street, 26th Floor,
Denver, Colorado 80202
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
Michael P. Malloy
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
One Logan Square
18th & Cherry Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-6996
(Name and address of agent for service)
Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code: (800) 624-4190
Date of fiscal year end: December 31
Date of reporting period: March 31, 2006
Item 1 - Schedule of Investments.
BLUE CHIP VALUE FUND, INC.
STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS
March 31, 2006 (Unaudited)
Market | ||||||
Shares | Cost | Value | ||||
COMMON STOCKS 106.38% | ||||||
CAPITAL GOODS 8.46% | ||||||
Aerospace & Defense 3.56% | ||||||
General Dynamics Corp. | 49,600 | $ | 2,541,025 |
$ |
3,173,408 | |
Raytheon Co. | 57,900 | 2,105,231 | 2,654,136 | |||
5,827,544 | ||||||
Electrical Equipment 1.77% | ||||||
General Electric Co. | 83,500 | 2,994,681 | 2,904,130 | |||
Industrial Products 3.13% | ||||||
ITT Industries | 32,000 | 1,624,509 | 1,799,040 | |||
Parker Hannifin Corp. | 41,400 | 2,885,186 | 3,337,254 | |||
5,136,294 | ||||||
TOTAL CAPITAL GOODS | 12,150,632 | 13,867,968 | ||||
COMMERCIAL SERVICES 4.35% | ||||||
IT Services 1.93% | ||||||
Computer Sciences | ||||||
Corp.** | 57,050 | 2,701,100 | 3,169,128 | |||
Transaction Processing 2.42% | ||||||
First Data Corp. | 84,800 | 3,395,973 | 3,970,336 | |||
TOTAL COMMERCIAL SERVICES | 6,097,073 | 7,139,464 | ||||
COMMUNICATIONS 2.98% | ||||||
Telecomm Equipment & Solutions 2.98% | ||||||
Nokia Corp. | 236,000 | 3,703,046 | 4,889,920 | |||
TOTAL COMMUNICATIONS | 3,703,046 | 4,889,920 | ||||
CONSUMER CYCLICAL 14.73% | ||||||
Clothing & Accessories 3.20% | ||||||
TJX Companies Inc. | 211,700 | 4,955,627 | 5,254,394 | |||
General Merchandise 1.53% | ||||||
Target Corp. | 48,300 | 2,416,747 | 2,512,083 | |||
Hotels & Gaming 2.24% | ||||||
Starwood Hotels & | ||||||
Resorts Worldwide Inc. | 54,300 | 2,570,721 | 3,677,739 | |||
Publishing & Media 2.78% | ||||||
Walt Disney Co. | 163,200 | 4,111,225 | 4,551,648 | |||
Restaurants 2.46% | ||||||
Darden Restaurants Inc.** | 98,400 | 2,509,886 | 4,037,352 | |||
Retail 2.52% | ||||||
JC Penney Co. Inc. | 68,500 | 3,821,608 | 4,138,085 | |||
TOTAL CONSUMER CYCLICAL | 20,385,814 | 24,171,301 |
Market | |||||||
Shares | Cost | Value | |||||
CONSUMER STAPLES 5.31% | |||||||
Food & Agricultural Products 3.02% | |||||||
Bunge Ltd. | 55,400 |
$ |
2,432,495 |
$ |
3,086,334 | ||
Campbell Soup Co. | 57,800 | 1,756,941 | 1,872,720 | ||||
4,959,054 | |||||||
Home Products 2.29% | |||||||
Colgate Palmolive Co. | 65,600 | 3,692,051 | 3,745,760 | ||||
TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES | 7,881,487 | 8,704,814 | |||||
ENERGY 12.71% | |||||||
Exploration & Production 5.99% | |||||||
Occidental | |||||||
Petroleum Corp. | 65,600 | 3,824,629 | 6,077,840 | ||||
XTO Energy Inc. | 86,200 | 2,710,898 | 3,755,734 | ||||
9,833,574 | |||||||
Integrated Oils 3.81% | |||||||
Marathon Oil Corp. | 50,900 | 2,017,779 | 3,877,053 | ||||
Suncor Energy Inc. | 30,700 | 1,030,169 | 2,364,514 | ||||
6,241,567 | |||||||
Oil Services 2.91% | |||||||
Transocean Inc.** | 59,500 | 2,041,368 | 4,777,850 | ||||
TOTAL ENERGY | 11,624,844 | 20,852,991 | |||||
FINANCIALS 22.03% | |||||||
Integrated Financial Services 6.19% | |||||||
American | |||||||
International Group | 61,800 | 3,956,453 | 4,084,362 | ||||
Citigroup Inc. | 128,700 | 5,796,067 | 6,078,501 | ||||
10,162,863 | |||||||
Money Center Banks 1.59% | |||||||
Bank of America Corp. | 57,100 | 2,684,106 | 2,600,334 | ||||
Regional Banks 2.85% | |||||||
US Bancorp | 75,300 | 2,162,766 | 2,296,650 | ||||
Wachovia Corp. | 42,500 | 2,068,475 | 2,382,125 | ||||
4,678,775 | |||||||
Securities & Asset Management 5.86% | |||||||
Merrill Lynch & | |||||||
Company Inc. | 68,900 | 3,823,370 | 5,426,564 | ||||
Morgan Stanley & Co. | 66,700 | 3,555,013 | 4,190,094 | ||||
9,616,658 | |||||||
Specialty Finance 3.55% | |||||||
Countrywide | |||||||
Financial Corp. | 90,700 | 3,154,926 | 3,328,690 | ||||
Freddie Mac | 40,800 | 2,602,638 | 2,488,800 | ||||
5,817,490 | |||||||
Thrifts 1.99% | |||||||
Washington Mutual Inc. | 76,600 | 3,048,873 | 3,264,692 | ||||
TOTAL FINANCIALS | 32,852,688 | 36,140,812 |
Market | |||||||
Shares | Cost | Value | |||||
MEDICAL - HEALTHCARE 16.98% | |||||||
Medical Technology 3.30% | |||||||
Boston Scientific Co.** | 114,100 | $ | 2,914,549 | $ | 2,630,005 | ||
Medtronic Inc. | 54,900 | 2,762,540 | 2,786,175 | ||||
5,416,180 | |||||||
Pharmaceuticals 13.68% | |||||||
Abbott Laboratories | 129,400 | 5,467,697 | 5,495,618 | ||||
Amgen Inc.** | 61,500 | 3,554,563 | 4,474,125 | ||||
Barr | |||||||
Pharmaceuticals Inc.** | 49,800 | 2,343,590 | 3,136,404 | ||||
Teva Pharmaceutical | |||||||
Industries Ltd. | 184,700 | 5,049,474 | 7,605,946 | ||||
Zimmer Holdings Inc.** | 25,400 | 1,767,426 | 1,717,040 | ||||
22,429,133 | |||||||
TOTAL MEDICAL - HEALTHCARE | 23,859,839 | 27,845,313 | |||||
TECHNOLOGY 15.55% | |||||||
Computer Software 9.30% | |||||||
International Business | |||||||
Machines Corp. | 45,500 | 3,638,348 | 3,752,385 | ||||
Microsoft Corp. | 269,900 | 7,929,402 | 7,343,979 | ||||
Verisign Inc.** | 173,700 | 4,248,510 | 4,167,063 | ||||
15,263,427 | |||||||
PCs & Servers 2.19% | |||||||
Dell** | 120,500 | 3,802,449 | 3,586,080 | ||||
Semiconductors 4.06% | |||||||
Altera Corp.** | 68,100 | 1,514,900 | 1,405,584 | ||||
Intel Corp. | 160,500 | 4,232,806 | 3,105,675 | ||||
Maxim Integrated | |||||||
Products Inc. | 57,900 | 2,225,973 | 2,150,985 | ||||
6,662,244 | |||||||
TOTAL TECHNOLOGY | 27,592,388 | 25,511,751 | |||||
TRANSPORTATION 3.28% | |||||||
Railroads 3.28% | |||||||
Norfolk Southern Corp. | 99,400 | 3,536,893 | 5,374,558 | ||||
TOTAL TRANSPORTATION | 3,536,893 | 5,374,558 | |||||
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | 149,684,704 | 174,498,892 | |||||
SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS 0.12% | |||||||
Goldman Sachs Financial | |||||||
Square Prime Obligations | |||||||
Fund FST - Shares | 200,763 | 200,763 | 200,763 | ||||
TOTAL SHORT TERM | |||||||
INVESTMENTS | 200,763 | 200,763 | |||||
TOTAL | |||||||
INVESTMENTS | 106.50% | $ | 149,885,467 | $ | 174,699,655 | ||
Liabilities in Excess | |||||||
of Other Assets | (6.50%) | (10,655,523) | |||||
NET ASSETS | 100.00% | $ | 164,044,132 |
**Denotes non-income producing security
See accompanying notes to the statement of investments.
BLUE CHIP VALUE FUND
NOTES TO STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS
March 31, 2006 (Unaudited)
1. ORGANIZATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Blue Chip Value Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a diversified, closed-end management investment company.
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Fund in the preparation of its statement of investments.
Security Valuation-All securities of the Fund are valued as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"), currently 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), on each day that the NYSE is open. Listed securities are generally valued at the last sales price as of the close of regular trading on the NYSE. Securities traded on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation ("NASDAQ") are generally valued at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price ("NOCP"). In the absence of sales and NOCP, such securities are valued at the mean of the bid and asked prices.
Securities having a remaining maturity of 60 days or less are valued at amortized cost which approximates market value.
When market quotations are not readily available or when events occur that make established valuation methods unreliable, securities of the Fund may be valued at fair value determined in good faith by or under the direction of the Board of Directors. Factors which may be considered when determining the fair value of a security include (a) the fundamental data relating to the investment; (b) an evaluation of the forces which influence the market in which the security is sold, including the liquidity and depth of the market; (c) the market value at date of purchase; (d) information as to any transactions or offers with respect to the security or comparable securities; and (e) any other relevant matters.
Investment Transactions-Investment transactions are accounted for on the date the investments are purchased or sold (trade date). Realized gains and losses from investment transactions and unrealized appreciation and depreciation of investment are determined on the "specific identification" basis for both financial statement and federal income tax purposes. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income, which includes interest earned on money market funds, is accrued and recorded daily.
Use of Estimates-The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and disclosures made in the accompanying notes to the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
2. UNREALIZED APPRECIATION AND DEPRECIATION OF INVESTMENTS (TAX BASIS)
As of March 31, 2006:
Gross appreciation (excess of value over tax cost) | $ 27,749,499 |
Gross depreciation (excess of tax cost over value) | (3,130,322) |
Net unrealized appreciation | $ 24,619,167 |
Cost of investments for income tax purposes | $150,080,488 |
3. LOAN OUTSTANDING
On December 6, 2005 an agreement with The Bank of New York ("BONY") was reached, in which the Fund may borrow up to the lesser of $15,000,000 or the maximum amount the Fund is permitted to borrow under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The interest rate resets daily at overnight Federal Funds Rate plus 0.825%.
The borrowings under the BONY loan are secured by a perfected security interest on all of the Funds' assets.
Details of the loan outstanding are as follows:
Average for the | |||
As of | Three Months Ended | ||
March 31, | March 31, | ||
2006 | 2006 | ||
Loan outstanding | $10,660,000 | $13,363,111 | |
Interest rate | 5.59%* | 5.27% * | |
% of Fund's total assets | 6.09% | 7.64% | |
Amount of debt per share outstanding | $ 0.38 | $ 0.48 | |
Number of shares outstanding (in thousands) | 27,726 | 27,724** |
*Annualized
**Weighted average
Item 2 - Controls and Procedures.
(a) The registrant's Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have evaluated the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) within 90 days of the filing date of this report and have concluded that the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures were effective, as of that date.
(b) There was no change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) that occurred during registrant's last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.
Item 3 - Exhibits.
Separate certifications for the registrant's Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, are attached as Ex99.CERT.
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.
BLUE CHIP VALUE FUND, INC.
By: /s/ Todger Anderson
Todger Anderson
President / Principal Executive Officer
Date: May 25, 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.
By: /s/ Todger Anderson
Todger Anderson
President / Principal Executive Officer
Date: May 25, 2006
By: /s/ Jasper R. Frontz
Jasper R. Frontz
Treasurer / Principal Financial Officer
Date: May 25, 2006