UNITES STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 13F
INFORMATION REQUIRED OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT MANAGE~RS PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13(f) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 AND RULES THEREUNDER
Report for the Calendar Year or Quarter Ended _____September 30, 1999________
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_________Parnassus Investments______________________________
Name of Institutional Investment Manager
__One Market, Steuart Tower - Suite #1600, San Francisco, CA 94105____________
Business Address (Street) (City) (State) (ZIP)
__________Howard Fong, Vice President__________________(415) 778-0200__________
Name, Phone No., and Title of Person Duly Authorized to Submit This Report.
ATTENTION
Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal
Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a)
The institutional investment manager submitting this Form and its attachments
and the person by whom it is signed represent hereby that all information
contained therein is true, correct and complete. It is understood that all
required items, statements and schedules are considered integral parts of this
Form and that the submission of any amendment represents that all unamended
items, statements and schedules remain true, correct and complete as previously
submitted.
Pursuant to the requirements of Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
undersigned institutional investment manager has caused this report to be signed
on its behalf in the City of______San Francisco______and State of
____California_____on the ___25_ dav of___ October___, 1999
___Parnassus Investments_______
(Name of Institutional Investment Manager)
(Manual Signature of Person Duly Authorized to Submit This Report)
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Item 1: Name of Issuer Item 2: Item 3: Item 4: Item 5: Shares Item 6: Item 7: Item 8 Voting
Title of Class CUSIP Number Fair Market of Principal Investment Managers Authority
Value Amount Discretion (Shares)
(a) Sole(b)(c) (a) Sole (b) (c)
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Adaptec. Inc. Common Stock 00651F108 9,485 239,000 X 239,000
Autodesk Inc. Common Stock 052769106 1,794 82,000 X 82,000
American International Group Common Stock 026874107 1,174 13,500 X 13,500
Inc.
Applied Materials Inc. Common Stock 038222105 467 6,000 X 6,000
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Common Stock 007903107 8,078 470,000 X 470,000
Becton Dickinson & Co. Common Stock 075887109 2,975 106,000 X 106,000
Baldor Electric Common Stock 057741100 2,301 121,500 X 121,500
Borders Group Inc. Common Stock 099709107 2,233 152,000 X 152,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Common Stock 110122108 405 6,000 X 6,000
Calgon Carbon Corporation Common Stock 129603106 273 40,000 X 40,000
Cognex Corporation Common Stock 192422103 21,584 715,000 X 715,000
Clorox Company Common Stock 189054109 230 6,000 X 6,000
Chase Mahattan Corporation Common Stock 16161A108 302 4,000 X 4,000
Consolidated Stores Common Stock 210149100 4,479 203,000 X 203,000
Corporation
Costco Wholesale Corporation Common Stock 22160Q102 216 3,000 X 3,000
Compaq Computers Corporation Common Stock 204493100 12,467 545,000 X 545,000
Cisco Systems, Inc. Common Stock 17275R102 1,783 26,000 X 26,000
Delta Air Lines Inc. Common Stock 247361108 9,409 194,000 X 194,000
Dana Corporation Common Stock 235811106 371 10,000 X 10,000
Department 56 Inc. Common Stock 249509100 2,681 112,000 X 112,000
Dayton Hudson Corporation Common Stock 239753106 7,988 133,000 X 133,000
Quantum Corp.- DLT & Storage Common Stock 747906204 7,481 532,000 X 532,000
Enron Corporation Common Stock 293561106 330 8,000 X 8,000
Electro Scientific Common Stock 285229100 25,309 475,000 X 475,000
Industries Inc.
FEI Company Common Stock 30241L109 4,727 625,000 X 625,000
Federal National Mortgage Common Stock 313586109 1,316 21,000 X 21,000
Assoc.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Common Stock 313400301 884 17,000 X 17,000
Gannett Company Common Stock 364730101 208 3,000 X 3,000
General Mills Inc. Common Stock 370334104 243 3,000 X 3,000
Quantum Corp- Hard Disk Drive Common Stock 747906303 1,978 266,000 X 266,000
Helix Technology Corp. Common Stock 423319102 14,381 432,500 X 432,500
Heinz (H.J.) Company Common Stock 423074103 301 7,000 X 7,000
Henry Schein, Inc. Common Stock 806407102 5,814 408,000 X 408,000
Hewlett-Packard Company Common Stock 428236103 459 5,000 X 5,000
International Business Common Stock 459200101 606 5,000 X 5,000
Machines Corp.
Intel Corporation Common Stock 458140100 31,434 423,000 X 423,000
Johnson & Johnson Common Stock 478160104 919 10,000 X 10,000
Kellogg Company Common Stock 487836108 449 12,000 X 12,000
KeySpan Corporation Common Stock 49337W100 229 8,000 X 8,000
Liz Claiborne Inc. Common Stock 539320101 9,455 305,000 X 305,000
Lam Research Corporation Common Stock 512807108 24,400 400,000 X 400,000
LSI Logic Corporation Common Stock 502161102 11,897 231,000 X 231,000
Lucent Technologies Inc. Common Stock 549463107 584 9,000 X 9,000
Mattel Inc. Common Stock 577081102 9,728 512,000 X 512,000
Mentor Graphics Corporation Common Stock 587200106 5352 625,000 X 625,000
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Common Stock 571748102 343 5,000 X 5,000
Inc.
Minnesota Mining & Common Stock 604059105 480 5,000 X 5,000
Manufacturing Co.
Merck & Company Inc. Common Stock 589331107 1,815 28,000 X 28,000
Micron Technology Inc. Common Stock 595112103 532 8,000 X 8,000
Nalco Chemical Company Common Stock 629853102 202 4,000 X 4,000
Oxford Health Plans Inc. Common Stock 691471106 6,975 558,000 X 558,000
PE Corp-PE Biosystems Group Common Stock 69332S102 217 3,000 X 3,000
Proctor & Gamble Company Common Stock 742718109 1,125 12,000 X 12,000
Reebok International Ltd. Common Stock 758110100 2,223 208,000 X 208,000
Stride Rite Corporation Common Stock 863314100 1,834 262,000 X 262,000
STERIS Corporation Common Stock 859152100 5,775 420,000 X 420,000
Symantec Corporation Common Stock 871503108 9,100 253,000 X 253,000
AT&T Corporation Common Stock 001957109 479 11,000 X 11,000
U.S. West Inc. Common Stock 912889102 457 8,000 X 8,000
Walgreen Company Common Stock 931422109 228 9,000 X 9,000
Western Digital Corporation Common Stock 958102105 4,536 1,230,000 X 1,230,000
Wells Fargo Company Common Stock 949740104 674 17,000 X 17,000
Whole Foods Market, Inc. Common Stock 966837106 10,012 306,000 X 306,000
Whirlpool Corporation Common Stock 963320106 261 4,000 X 4,000
Wellman Inc. Common Stock 949702104 7,135 395,000 X 395,000
Washington Mutual Inc. Common Stock 939322103 322 11,000 X 11,000
Dentsply International Inc. Common Stock 249030107 5,779 254,000 X 254,000
Xerox Corporation Common Stock S16139991 226 5,400 X 5,400
GRAND TOTALS 309,909
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