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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-Q

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number 811-21770

 

SUNAMERICA FOCUSED ALPHA GROWTH FUND, INC.

 
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

Harborside Financial Center,
3200 Plaza 5 Jersey City, NJ 07311

 
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

John T. Genoy
Senior Vice President
SunAmerica Asset Management Corp.
Harborside Financial Center,
3200 Plaza 5
Jersey City, NJ 07311

 
(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (201) 324-6414

 

Date of fiscal year end: December 31

 

Date of reporting period: September 30, 2011

 
 
 


 

Item 1. Schedule of Investments.

 


 

SunAmerica Focused Alpha Growth Fund, Inc.
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS — September 30, 2011 — (unaudited)
                 
    Shares/
Principal
    Value  
Security Description   Amount     (Note 1)  
 
COMMON STOCK — 91.7%
               
Apparel Manufacturers — 2.0%
               
Under Armour, Inc., Class A†
    78,000     $ 5,179,980  
 
             
Athletic Footwear — 4.4%
               
NIKE, Inc., Class B
    133,919       11,451,414  
 
             
Auction House/Art Dealers — 3.7%
               
Sotheby’s
    348,184       9,599,433  
 
             
Casino Hotels — 4.3%
               
Wynn Resorts, Ltd.
    97,001       11,162,875  
 
             
Coffee — 4.5%
               
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.†
    125,830       11,694,640  
 
             
Commercial Services-Finance — 4.2%
               
Morningstar, Inc.
    74,483       4,203,821  
Verisk Analytics, Inc., Class A†
    187,182       6,508,318  
 
             
 
            10,712,139  
 
             
Computers — 7.5%
               
Apple, Inc.†
    50,899       19,401,681  
 
             
Decision Support Software — 1.3%
               
MSCI, Inc., Class A†
    113,301       3,436,419  
 
             
Diagnostic Kits — 1.6%
               
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.†
    61,413       4,235,655  
 
             
Distribution/Wholesale — 2.4%
               
Fastenal Co.
    189,382       6,302,633  
 
             
E-Commerce/Services — 5.1%
               
priceline.com, Inc.†
    28,938       13,006,473  
 
             
Electric-Transmission — 4.5%
               
ITC Holdings Corp.
    150,470       11,650,892  
 
             
Engines-Internal Combustion — 4.7%
               
Cummins, Inc.
    147,348       12,032,438  
 
             
Hotel/Motels — 2.3%
               
Hyatt Hotels Corp., Class A†
    185,000       5,803,450  
 
             
Insurance-Property/Casualty — 1.9%
               
Arch Capital Group, Ltd.†
    150,210       4,908,112  
 
             
Investment Management/Advisor Services — 0.7%
               
Eaton Vance Corp.
    76,313       1,699,490  
 
             
Medical Instruments — 3.5%
               
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.†
    125,000       8,910,000  
 
             
Metal-Diversified — 1.8%
               
Molycorp, Inc.†
    140,000       4,601,800  
 
             
Multimedia — 1.3%
               
FactSet Research Systems, Inc.
    38,848       3,456,306  
 
             
Oil Companies-Exploration & Production — 1.9%
               
Concho Resources, Inc.†
    67,000       4,766,380  
 
             
Oil-Field Services — 5.5%
               
CARBO Ceramics, Inc.
    38,848       3,983,085  
Halliburton Co.
    330,876       10,098,336  
 
             
 
            14,081,421  
 
             
Resort/Theme Parks — 2.2%
               
Vail Resorts, Inc.
    150,000       5,668,500  
 
             
Retail-Restaurants — 6.3%
               
Starbucks Corp.
    435,590       16,243,151  
 
             
Retail-Sporting Goods — 3.2%
               
Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc.†
    250,000       8,365,000  
 
             
Schools — 1.3%
               
DeVry, Inc.
    91,004       3,363,508  
 
             
Soap & Cleaning Preparation — 3.4%
               
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
    196,760       8,696,792  
 
             
Transport-Services — 1.9%
               
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.
    120,652       4,892,439  
 
             
Web Portals/ISP — 4.3%
               
Baidu, Inc. ADR†
    102,743       10,984,254  
 
             
Total Long-Term Investment Securities
(cost $208,436,950)
            236,307,275  
 
             
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT SECURITIES — 8.3%
               
Time Deposits — 8.3%
               
Euro Time Deposit with State Street Bank and Trust Co.
0.01% due 10/03/11
(cost $21,260,000)
  $ 21,260,000       21,260,000  
 
             
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
(cost $229,696,950) (1)
    100.0 %     257,567,275  
Liabilities in excess of other assets
    0.0       (12,163 )
 
           
NET ASSETS
    100.0 %   $ 257,555,112  
 
           
 
  Non-income producing security
 
(1)   See Note 2 for cost of investments on a tax basis.
ADR — American Depository Receipt
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Fund’s net assets as of September 30, 2011 (See Note 1):
                                 
    Level 1 -
Unadjusted
Quoted
Prices
  Level 2 -
Other
Observable
Inputs
  Level 3 -
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
  Total
ASSETS:
                               
Long-Term Investment Securities:
                               
Common Stock:
                               
Computers
  $ 19,401,681     $     $     $ 19,401,681  
E-Commerce/Services
    13,006,473                   13,006,473  
Oil-Field Services
    14,081,421                   14,081,421  
Retail-Restaurants
    16,243,151                   16,243,151  
Other Industries*
    173,574,549                   173,574,549  
Short-Term Investment Securities:
                               
Time Deposit
          21,260,000             21,260,000  
     
Total
  $ 236,307,275     $ 21,260,000     $     $ 257,567,275  
     
 
*   Sum of all other industries each of which individually has an aggregate market value of less than 5% of net assets. For a detailed presentation of common stocks by industry classification, please refer to the Portfolio of Investments.
See Notes to Portfolio of Investments


 

NOTES TO PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS — September 30, 2011 — (unaudited)
Note 1. Security Valuation Stocks are generally valued based upon closing sales prices reported on recognized securities exchanges on which the securities are principally traded. Stocks listed on the NASDAQ are valued using the NASDAQ Official Closing Price (“NOCP”). Generally, the NOCP will be the last sale price unless the reported trade for the stock is outside the range of the bid/ask price. In such cases, the NOCP will be normalized to the nearer of the bid or ask price. For listed securities having no sales reported and for unlisted securities, such securities will be valued based upon the last reported bid price.
As of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), securities traded primarily on security exchanges outside the United States are valued at the last sale price on such exchanges on the day of valuation, or if there is no sale on the day of valuation, at the last-reported bid price. If a security’s price is available from more than one exchange, the SunAmerica Focused Alpha Growth, Inc. (the “Fund”) uses the exchange that is the primary market for the security. However, depending on the foreign market, closing prices may be up to 15 hours old when they are used to price the Fund’s shares, and the Fund may determine that certain closing prices do not reflect the fair value of the security. This determination will be based on review of a number of factors, including developments in foreign markets, the performance of U.S. securities markets, and the performance of instruments trading in U.S. markets that represent foreign securities and baskets of foreign securities. If the Fund determines that closing prices do not reflect the fair value of the securities, the Fund will adjust the previous closing prices in accordance with pricing procedures approved by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) to reflect what it believes to be the fair value of the securities as of the close of regular trading on the NYSE. The Fund may also fair value securities in other situations, for example, when a particular foreign market is closed but the Fund is open. For foreign equity securities, the Fund uses an outside pricing service to provide it with closing market prices and information used for adjusting those prices.
Short-term securities with 60 days or less to maturity are amortized to maturity based on their cost to the Fund if acquired within 60 days of maturity or, if already held by the Fund on the 60th day, are amortized to maturity based on the value determined on the 61st day.
Securities for which market quotations are not readily available or if a development/significant event occurs that may significantly impact the value of the security, then these securities are valued, as determined pursuant to procedures adopted in good faith by the Board. There is no single standard for making fair value determinations, which may result in prices that vary from those of other funds.
The various inputs that may be used to determine the value of the Fund’s investments are summarized into three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 — Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 — Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, referenced indices, quoted prices in inactive markets, adjusted quoted prices in active markets, adjusted quoted prices on foreign equity securities that were adjusted in accordance with pricing procedures approved by the Board of Directors, etc.)
Level 3 — Significant unobservable inputs (includes inputs that reflect the Fund’s own assumptions about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the security, developed based on the best information available under the circumstances).
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
The summary of the inputs used to value the Fund’s net assets as of September 30, 2011 are reported on a schedule following the Portfolio of Investments.
Note 2. Federal Income Taxes As of September 30, 2011, the amounts of aggregate unrealized gain (loss) and the cost of investment securities for federal income tax purposes, including short-term securities, were as follows:
         
Cost (tax basis)
  $ 229,696,950  
 
     
Appreciation
  $ 47,786,581  
Depreciation
    (19,916,256 )
 
     
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
  $ 27,870,325  
 
     

 


 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional information is available in the Fund’s Annual and Semiannual reports which may be obtained without charge from the EDGAR database on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

 


 

Item 2. Controls and Procedures.
a)       An evaluation was performed within 90 days of the filing of this report, under the supervision and with the participation of the registrant’s management, including the President and Treasurer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined under Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-3(c))). Based on that evaluation, the registrant’s management, including the President and Treasurer, concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective.
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 (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d))) that occurred during the 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.
Certifications pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)) attached hereto as
Exhibit 99. 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.
SunAmerica Focused Alpha Growth Fund, Inc.
     
By:     /s/ John T. Genoy
 
 
    John T. Genoy 
    President 
 
Date:   November 23, 2011
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/ John T. Genoy
 
 
    John T. Genoy 
    President 
 
Date:   November 23, 2011
     
By:     /s/ Donna M. Handel
 
 
    Donna M. Handel
    Treasurer 
 
Date:   November 23, 2011