On the 31st of December, the T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund sold 11 million Tyson Foods Inc (NYSE:TSN) shares for $687 million at an average price of $64.44 per share. Shares of Tyson Foods Inc are down -0.64% since the transaction.
The T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund's holding in Tyson Foods Inc decreased to about 15 million shares with the transaction.
The T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund first bought Tyson Foods Inc stock in the first quarter of 2001. The T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund also owns Bunge Ltd (NYSE:BG), ConAgra Foods Inc (NYSE:CAG), TreeHouse Foods Inc. (NYSE:THS) and Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO). Tyson Foods Inc is its number two position by number of shares and market value among food products stocks.
Other investors who also reduced their Tyson Foods Inc shares include California State Teachers Retirement System, Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE:COF), and Citigroup (NYSE:C). In contrast, Bridgewater Associates, Eaton Vance (NYSE:EV) Management, and Fisher Asset Management added to TSN shares, while First Dallas Securities, NWQ Investment Management Co., and Point72 Asset Management established new holdings in Tyson Foods Inc.
The T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund also reduced their share in MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM), PNM Resources, Inc. (Holding Co (PNM), Dennys Corp. (DENN), Becton Dickinson & Co. (NYSE:BDX), Equifax Inc (NYSE:EFX), J.B.Hunt Transport Services Inc (JBHT), Concho Resources Inc (NYSE:CXO), Visteon Corp (NASDAQ:VC), RealPage, Inc. (RP), Aptiv PLC (NYSE:APTV), Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM), Zendesk (NYSE:ZEN), Planet Fitness Inc (NYSE:PLNT), MyoKardia, Inc. (NASDAQ:MYOK), Slack Technologies Inc (NYSE:WORK), Endava plc (NYSE:DAVA) and Palomar Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLMR). The total value of the shares sold is estimated at around $5.8 billion.
In addition, the T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund established new holdings in MultiPlan Corporation (MPLN) and IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ:IAC). The T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund also added to their share in Quidel Corp (NASDAQ:QDEL), Yum Brands Inc (YUM), Vail Resorts Inc (NYSE:MTN), SEACOR Holdings Inc . (NYSE:CKH), SEACOR Holdings Inc., International Paper Co (NYSE:IP), Sealed Air Corp (NYSE:SEE), Lumber Liquidators Holdings, In (NYSE:LL), U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. (USPH), REX American Resources (NASDAQ:AREC) Corporat (REX), Clearwater Paper Corporation (NYSE:CLW), Proofpoint Inc (NASDAQ:PFPT), RH (NYSE:RH), Franks International NV (FI), Bill.com Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BILL), Snapchat Inc (SNAP), PCSB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:PCSB), Cactus (NYSE:WHD), Inc. Class A Common Sto (WHD), Scholar Rock Holding Corporatio (NASDAQ:SRRK), PagerDuty Inc (NYSE:PD) and RAPT Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:RAPT). The total value of the shares bought is estimated at around $4.5 billion.