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 _____December 31, 1999________
(Please read instructions before preparing form.)
If amended report check here:
_________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 ___8_ dav of___ February___, 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)
(a) Sole (b)(c) (a) Sole (b)(c)
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Adaptec. Inc. Common Stock 00651F108 10,125 203,000 X 203,000
Autodesk Inc. Common Stock 052769106 6,649 197,000 X 197,000
American International Group Common Stock 026874107 1,460 13,500 X 13,500
Inc.
Apex, Inc. Common Stock 037548104 6,450 200,000 X 200,000
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Common Stock 007903107 13,456 465,000 X 465,000
Baldor Electric Common Stock 057741100 2,084 115,000 X 115,000
Borders Group Inc. Common Stock 099709107 2,470 152,000 X 152,000
Boston Scientific Common Stock 101137107 4,594 210,000 X 210,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Common Stock 110122108 385 6,000 X 6,000
Calgon Carbon Corporation Common Stock 129603106 294 50,000 X 50,000
Cognex Corporation Common Stock 192422103 26,715 685,000 X 685,000
Colgate-Palmolive Common Stock 194162103 228 3,500 X 3,500
Clorox Company Common Stock 189054109 302 6,000 X 6,000
Chase Mahattan Corporation Common Stock 16161A108 311 4,000 X 4,000
Credence Systems Corporation Common Stock 225302108 11,678 135,000 X 135,000
Consolidated Stores Common Stock 210149100 4,940 304,000 X 304,000
Corporation
Compaq Computers Corporation Common Stock 204493100 14,817 545,000 X 545,000
Cisco Systems, Inc. Common Stock 17275R102 2,785 26,000 X 26,000
Delta Air Lines Inc. Common Stock 247361108 10,162 204,000 X 204,000
Dana Corporation Common Stock 235811106 299 10,000 X 10,000
Dayton Hudson Corporation Common Stock 239753106 9,767 133,000 X 133,000
Quantum Corp.- DLT & Storage Common Stock 747906204 8,047 532,000 X 532,000
Enron Corporation Common Stock 293561106 311 7,000 X 7,000
Electro Scientific Common Stock 285229100 27,594 378,000 X 378,000
Industries Inc.
FEI Company Common Stock 30241L109 5,503 355,000 X 355,000
Federal National Mortgage Common Stock 313586109 1,311 21,000 X 21,000
Assoc.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Common Stock 313400301 4,094 87,000 X 87,000
Gannett Company Common Stock 364730101 245 3,000 X 3,000
General Mills Inc. Common Stock 370334104 215 6,000 X 6,000
Gap, Inc. Common Stock 364760108 9,476 206,000 X 206,000
Quantum Corp- Hard Disk Drive Common Stock 747906303 1,845 266,000 X 266,000
Helix Technology Corp. Common Stock 423319102 12,548 280,000 X 280,000
Heinz (H.J.) Company Common Stock 423074103 279 7,000 X 7,000
Henry Schein, Inc. Common Stock 806407102 5,432 408,000 X 408,000
Hewlett-Packard Company Common Stock 428236103 4,337 38,000 X 38,000
International Business Common Stock 459200101 540 5,000 X 5,000
Machines Corp.
Intel Corporation Common Stock 458140100 34,818 423,000 X 423,000
Johnson & Johnson Common Stock 478160104 933 10,000 X 10,000
Kellogg Company Common Stock 487836108 308 10,000 X 10,000
Kroger Company Common Stock 501044101 2,020 107,000 X 107,000
Lam Research Corporation Common Stock 512807108 33,469 300,000 X 300,000
LSI Logic Corporation Common Stock 502161102 13,905 206,000 X 206,000
Lucent Technologies Inc. Common Stock 549463107 673 9,000 X 9,000
Mentor Graphics Corporation Common Stock 587200106 8,242 625,000 X 625,000
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Common Stock 571748102 478 5,000 X 5,000
Inc.
Minnesota Mining & Common Stock 604059105 489 5,000 X 5,000
Manufacturing Co.
Merck & Company Inc. Common Stock 589331107 1,878 28,000 X 28,000
Micron Technology Inc. Common Stock 595112103 622 8,000 X 8,000
Novellus Systems Common Stock 670008101 245 2,000 X 2,000
Oxford Health Plans Inc. Common Stock 691471106 7,080 558,000 X 558,000
Proctor & Gamble Company Common Stock 742718109 1,315 12,000 X 12,000
Schering-Plough Corporation Common Stock 806605101 212 5,000 X 5,000
The St. Paul Companies Common Stock 792860108 202 6,000 X 6,000
STERIS Corporation Common Stock 859152100 5,330 520,000 X 520,000
Symantec Corporation Common Stock 871503108 14,832 253,000 X 253,000
AT&T Corporation Common Stock 001957109 559 11,000 X 11,000
U.S. West Inc. Common Stock 912889102 576 8,000 X 8,000
Walgreen Company Common Stock 931422109 263 9,000 X 9,000
Wells Fargo Company Common Stock 949740104 687 17,000 X 17,000
Whole Foods Market, Inc. Common Stock 966837106 28,382 612,000 X 612,000
Whirlpool Corporation Common Stock 963320106 260 4,000 X 4,000
Wellman Inc. Common Stock 949702104 7,357 395,000 X 395,000
Washington Mutual Inc. Common Stock 939322103 285 11,000 X 11,000
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Common Stock 942683103 5,408 151,000 X 151,000
Dentsply International Inc. Common Stock 249030107 7,182 304,000 X 304,000
Xerox Corporation Common Stock S16139991 227 10,000 X 10,000
GRAND TOTALS 389,980
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