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, 2000________
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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)
_________Bryant Cherry, 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 ___8_ dav of__November___, 2000
___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)
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Adaptec. Inc. Common Stock 00651F108 14,500 725,000 X 725,000
Autodesk Inc. Common Stock 052769106 10,658 420,000 X 420,000
American International Group Common Stock 026874107 383 4,000 X 4,000
Inc.
Applied Materials, Inc. Common Stock 038222105 18,980 320,000 X 320,000
Avocent Corporation Common Stock 053893103 5,513 100,000 X 100,000
Becton Dickinson & Company Common Stock 075887109 212 8,000 X 8,000
Baldor Electric Common Stock 057741100 2,133 105,000 X 105,000
Building Materials Holding Common Stock 120113105 3,940 206,000 X 206,000
Corp.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Common Stock 110122108 16,566 290,000 X 290,000
Cardinal Health, Inc. Common Stock 14149Y108 16,138 183,000 X 183,000
Calgon Carbon Corporation Common Stock 129603106 2,453 360,000 X 360,000
Cognex Corporation Common Stock 192422103 7,927 201,000 X 201,000
Clorox Company Common Stock 189054109 8,427 213,000 X 213,000
Credence Systems Corporation Common Stock 225302108 12,450 415,000 X 415,000
Costco Wholesale Corporation Common Stock 22160K105 210 6,000 X 6,000
Compaq Computers Corporation Common Stock 204493100 12,273 445,000 X 445,000
Cummins Engine Inc. Common Stock 231021106 300 10,000 X 10,000
Delta Air Lines Inc. Common Stock 247361108 4,615 104,000 X 104,000
Dana Corporation Common Stock 235811106 430 20,000 X 20,000
Deluxe Corporation Common Stock 248019101 203 10,000 X 10,000
Electronics for Imaging, Inc. Common Stock 286082102 12,120 480,000 X 480,000
Enron Corporation Common Stock 293561106 526 6,000 X 6,000
Electro Scientific Common Stock 285229100 3,513 100,000 X 100,000
Industries Inc.
Federal National Mortgage Common Stock 313586109 24,096 337,000 X 337,000
Assoc.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Common Stock 313400301 27,031 500,000 X 500,000
H.B. Fuller Company Common Stock 359694106 4,195 145,900 X 145,900
Gannett Company Common Stock 364730101 265 5,000 X 5,000
Golden West Financial Common Stock 381317106 322 6,000 X 6,000
Corporation
Heinz (H.J.) Company Common Stock 423074103 371 10,000 X 10,000
Hewlett-Packard Company Common Stock 428236103 291 3,000 X 3,000
International Business Common Stock 459200101 562 5,000 X 5,000
Machines Corp.
Idacorp Inc. Common Stock 451107106 231 5,000 X 5,000
Intel Corporation Common Stock 458140100 35,589 855,000 X 855,000
Illinois Tool Works Common Stock 452308109 335 6,000 X 6,000
J.C. Penney Company Common Stock 708160106 236 20,000 X 20,000
Johnson & Johnson Common Stock 478160104 1,879 20,000 X 20,000
J.P. Morgan & Company Common Stock 616880100 19,278 118,000 X 118,000
Kellogg Company Common Stock 487836108 242 10,000 X 10,000
Kroger Company Common Stock 501044101 11,778 522,000 X 522,000
KeySpan Corporation Common Stock 49337W100 241 6,000 X 6,000
Lam Research Corporation Common Stock 512807108 6,344 303,000 X 303,000
LSI Logic Corporation Common Stock 502161102 21,645 740,000 X 740,000
Lucent Technologies Inc. Common Stock 549463107 5,645 185,000 X 185,000
MedQuist Inc. Common Stock 584949101 2,604 129,000 X 129,000
Mentor Graphics Corporation Common Stock 587200106 14,326 608,000 X 608,000
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Common Stock 571748102 398 3,000 X 3,000
Inc.
Minnesota Mining & Common Stock 604059105 456 5,000 X 5,000
Manufacturing Co.
Merck & Company Inc. Common Stock 589331107 14,888 200,000 X 200,000
Micron Technology Inc. Common Stock 595112103 13,278 290,000 X 290,000
Mylan Laboratories Common Stock 628530107 216 8,000 X 8,000
Novellus Systems Common Stock 670008101 13,038 280,000 X 280,000
Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. Common Stock 651229106 365 16,000 X 16,000
Wild Oats Markets, Inc. Common Stock 96808B107 5,699 485,000 X 485,000
Bank One Corporation Common Stock 06423A103 927 24,000 X 24,000
Pitney Bowes, Inc. Common Stock 724479100 276 7,000 X 7,000
PETsMART, Inc. Common Stock 716768106 3,258 695,000 X 695,000
Proctor & Gamble Company Common Stock 742718109 268 4,000 X 4,000
SAFECO Corporation Common Stock 786429100 463 17,000 X 17,000
Schering-Plough Corporation Common Stock 806605101 7,905 170,000 X 170,000
St. Paul Companies, Inc. Common Stock 792860108 247 5,000 X 5,000
AT&T Corporation Common Stock 001957109 1,028 35,000 X 35,000
Target Corporation Common Stock 87612E106 17,041 665,000 X 665,000
UGI Corporation Common Stock 902681105 243 10,000 X 10,000
Walgreen Company Common Stock 931422109 228 6,000 X 6,000
Wells Fargo Company Common Stock 949740104 1,148 25,000 X 25,000
Washington Mutual, Inc. Common Stock 939322103 995 25,000 X 25,000
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Common Stock 969904101 1,772 51,000 X 51,000
Dentsply International Inc. Common Stock 249030107 2,131 61,000 X 61,000
Xerox Corporation Common Stock S16139991 301 20,000 X 20,000
Venator Group, Inc. Common Stock 922944103 12,870 1,040,000 X 1,040,000
GRAND TOTALS 431,415
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