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 ________JUNE 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 ___29_ dav of___ __July___, 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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Adobe Systems, Inc. Common Stock 00724F101 11,009 134,000 X 134,000
Adaptec. Inc. Common Stock 00651F108 8,440 239,000 X 239,000
Autodesk, Inc. Common Stock 052769106 1,183 40,000 X 40,000
Aetna, Inc. Common Stock 008117103 268 3,000 X 3,000
American International Group Common Stock 026874107 1,171 10,000 X 10,000
Applied Materials, Inc. Common Stock 038222105 443 6,000 X 6,000
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Common Stock 007903107 5,581 310,000 X 310,000
Baldor Electric Company Common Stock 057741100 405 20,000 X 20,000
Borders Group, Inc. Common Stock 099709107 5,954 378,000 X 378,000
Bristol Myers Squibb Common Stock 110122108 351 5,000 X 5,000
Building Materials Holding Common Stock 120113105 4,198 365,000 X 365,000
Corp.
Chubb Corporation Common Stock 171232101 209 3,000 X 3,000
Calgon Carbon Corporation Common Stock 129603106 119 20,000 X 20,000
Cognex Corporation Common Stock 192422103 22,567 715,000 X 715,000
Cigna Corporation Common Stock 125509109 445 5,000 X 5,000
Colgate Palmolive Company Common Stock 194162103 236 2,400 X 2,400
Clorox Company Common Stock 189054109 211 2,000 X 2,000
Campbell Soup Company Common Stock 134429109 337 7,500 X 7,500
Compaq Computer Corporation Common Stock 204493100 11,723 495,000 X 495,000
Cisco Systems Common Stock 17275R102 1,290 20,000 X 20,000
Dana Corporation Common Stock 235811106 461 10,000 X 10,000
Department 56, Inc. Common Stock 249509100 2,314 86,500 X 86,500
Enron Corporation Common Stock 293561106 409 5,000 X 5,000
Electro Scientific Industries Common Stock 285229100 22,186 531,000 X 531,000
Just for Feet, Inc. Common Stock 48213P106 2,112 328,000 X 328,000
FEI Company Common Stock 30241L109 3,836 465,000 X 465,000
Federal National Mortgage Common Stock 313586109 821 12,000 X 12,000
Assn.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Common Stock 313400301 522 9,000 X 9,000
Gannett Common Stock 364730101 214 3,000 X 3,000
General Mills, Inc. Common Stock 370334104 241 3,000 X 3,000
Corning, Inc. Common Stock 219350105 210 3,000 X 3,000
The Gap, Inc. Common Stock 364760108 283 5,625 X 5,625
Helix Technology Corporation Common Stock 423319102 15,679 655,000 X 655,000
Heinz (H.J.) Company Common Stock 423074103 351 7,000 X 7,000
Henry Schein, Inc. Common Stock 806407102 6,369 201,000 X 201,000
Hewlett-Packard Company Common Stock 428236103 6,231 62,000 X 62,000
International Business Common Stock 459200101 646 5,000 X 5,000
Machines
Intel Corporation Common Stock 458140100 25,169 423,000 X 423,000
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. Common Stock 708160106 631 13,000 X 13,000
Johnson & Johnson Common Stock 478160104 956 10,000 X 10,000
Kellogg Company Common Stock 487836108 396 12,000 X 12,000
Lam Research Corporation Common Stock 512807108 18,675 400,000 X 400,000
Liz Claiborne, Inc. Common Stock 539320101 11,133 305,000 X 305,000
LSI Logic Corporation Common Stock 502161102 10,725 231,000 X 231,000
Lucent Technologies Common Stock 549463107 604 8,950 X 8,950
Mattel, Inc. Common Stock 577081102 12,423 471,000 X 471,000
McKesson HBOC, Inc. Common Stock 58155Q103 514 16,000 X 16,000
Morgan Products, Ltd. Common Stock 617439104 3,166 830,300 X 830,300
Micrion Corporation Common Stock 59479P102 1,800 160,000 X 160,000
Herman Miller, Inc. Common Stock 600544100 3,045 145,000 X 145,000
Marsh & McLennan Common Stock 571748102 378 5,000 X 5,000
Minnesota Mining & Common Stock 604059105 261 3,000 X 3,000
Manufacturing Co.
Merck & Company, Inc. Common Stock 589331107 703 9,500 X 9,500
Micron Technology, Inc. Common Stock 595112103 405 10,000 X 10,000
Nalco Chemical Company Common Stock 629853102 208 4,000 X 4,000
Newell Company Common Stock 651229106 278 6,000 X 6,000
Oxford Health Plans, Inc. Common Stock 691471106 7,812 502,000 X 502,000
Proctor & Gamble Company Common Stock 742718109 1,059 12,000 X 12,000
Polariod Corporation Common Stock 731095105 14,474 302,000 X 302,000
Quantum Corporation Common Stock 747906105 12,835 532,000 X 532,000
SAFECO Corporation Common Stock 786429100 300 6,800 X 6,800
Schwab Corporation Common Stock 808513105 219 2,000 X 2,000
St. John Knits, Inc. Common Stock 790289102 11,276 385,500 X 385,500
Symantec Corporation Common Stock 871503108 6,452 253,000 X 253,000
AT&T Corporation Common Stock 001957109 209 3,750 X 3,750
Transamerica Corporation Common Stock 893485102 210 2,800 X 2,800
UNUM Corporation Common Stock 903192102 219 4,000 X 4,000
US West, Inc. Common Stock 912889102 353 6,000 X 6,000
Walgreen Company Common Stock 931422109 234 8,000 X 8,000
Western Digital Corporation Common Stock 958102105 6,955 1,070,000 X 1,070,000
Wells Fargo & Company Common Stock 949740104 727 17,000 X 17,000
Whole Foods Market, Inc. Common Stock 966837106 288 6,000 X 6,000
Whirlpool Corporation Common Stock 963320106 292 4,000 X 4,000
Wellman, Inc. Common Stock 949702104 6,295 395,000 X 395,000
Washington Mutual, Inc. Common Stock 939322103 213 6,000 X 6,000
Dentsply International, Inc. Common Stock 249030107 1,574 56,200 X 56,200
Xerox Corporation Common Stock S16139991 319 5,400 X 5,400
GRAND TOTALS 302,803
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