United States
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549

Form N-Q

Quarterly Schedule of Portfolio Holdings of Registered
Management Investment Company
Investment Company Act file number: 811-05807
Eagle Capital Growth Fund, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
 
225 East Mason Street, Suite 802, Milwaukee, WI 53202-3657
(Address of principal executive offices) (zip code)
Luke E. Sims, President
Eagle Capital Growth Fund, Inc.
225 East Mason Street
Suite 802
Milwaukee, WI 53202-3657
(414) 765-1107
(Name and address of agent for service)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code:
(414) 765-1107

Date of fiscal year end: December 31, 2013

Date of reporting period: September 30, 2013
 


ITEM 1. SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS
Eagle Capital Growth Fund, Inc.
Portfolio of Investments (as of September 30, 2013) (unaudited)

Industry
 
   
   
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 
Common Stock (94.3% of total investments)
 
   
   
   
 
Industry
 
   
   
   
 
Bank
 
Shares
   
Cost
   
Market Value
   
% Total Inv.
 
Wells Fargo & Company
   
15,000
     
597,750
    $
619,800
   
 
 
                 
$
619,800
     
(2.2
%)
Consumer
                               
The Coca-Cola Company
   
28,000
     
1,058,939
     
1,060,640
         
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
   
12,000
     
72,938
     
711,600
         
PepsiCo, Inc.
   
10,000
     
168,296
     
795,000
         
 
                 
$
2,567,240
     
(9.2
%)
Data Processing
                               
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
   
17,000
     
600,933
     
1,230,460
         
Paychex, Inc.
   
31,000
     
797,952
     
1,259,840
         
 
                 
$
2,490,300
     
(8.9
%)
Drug/Medical Device
                               
Abbott Laboratories Inc.
   
7,500
     
175,588
     
248,925
         
Johnson & Johnson
   
4,000
     
45,500
     
346,760
         
Stryker Corp.
   
18,000
     
82,375
     
1,216,620
         
 
                 
$
1,812,305
     
(6.5
%)
Industrial
                               
Deere & Company
   
20,000
     
1,681,501
     
1,627,800
         
Emerson Electric Co.
   
20,000
     
900,188
     
1,294,000
         
Hillenbrand, Inc.
   
51,000
     
987,591
     
1,395,870
         
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
   
17,000
     
786,916
     
1,296,590
         
Sigma-Aldrich Corp.
   
16,000
     
498,184
     
1,364,800
         
Waters Corp.*
   
6,000
     
302,341
     
637,260
         
 
                 
$
7,616,320
     
(27.3
%)
Insurance
                               
AFLAC Corp.
   
19,000
     
1,018,259
     
1,177,810
         
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.*
   
17,000
     
1,303,475
     
1,929,670
         
The Chubb Corporation
   
14,000
     
715,049
     
1,249,640
         
 
                 
$
4,357,120
     
(15.6
%)
Mutual Fund Managers
                               
Eaton Vance Corp.
   
28,000
     
607,484
     
1,087,240
         
Franklin Resources, Inc.
   
45,000
     
1,884,581
     
2,274,750
         
T Rowe Price Group Inc.
   
14,000
     
987,352
     
1,007,020
         
 
                 
$
4,369,010
     
(15.6
%)
Closed-End Funds
                               
Central Securities Corporation
   
49,643
     
1,151,301
     
1,163,135
         
First Trust Dividend Income Fund
   
160,300
     
1,329,982
     
1,348,123
         
 
                 
$
2,511,258
     
(9.0
%)
 
                               
Total common stock investments
                 
$
26,343,353
         
Money Market Funds (5.7% of total investments)
                 
LEVEL ONE
         
 
                               
Federated Government Obligations Fund #5 Institutional, 0.01%
           
$
1,583,985
     
(5.7
%)
Total Money Market Investment
                 
$
1,583,985
         
 
                               
Total investments
                 
$
27,927,338
         
All other assets less liabilities
                   
51,406
         
Accrued investment advisory fees
                   
(18,400
)
       
Total net assets
                 
$
27,960,344
         
*Non-dividend paying security
                               
 

Footnote:

The following information is based upon federal income tax cost of portfolio investments as of September 30, 2013:

Gross unrealized appreciation
 
$
8,654,301
 
Gross unrealized depreciation
   
(65,424
)
Net unrealized appreciation
 
$
8,588,877
 
 
       
Federal income tax basis
 
$
17,754,477
 

ITEM 2. Controls and Procedures
 
(a) As of October 1, 2013, an evaluation of the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) was performed by management with the participation of the registrant's President and Chief Executive Officer (who is the principal executive officer of the registrant) and the registrant’s Chief Financial Officer (who is the principal financial officer of the registrant).  Based on that evaluation, the registrant's President and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures are effectively designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the registrant is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the Commission's rules and forms, and that information required to be disclosed by the registrant has been accumulated and communicated to the registrant's management, including its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, or persons performing similar functions as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

(b) Fair Value Accounting—Accounting standards require certain assets and liabilities be reported at fair value in the financial statements and provides a framework for establishing that fair value. The framework for determining fair value is based on a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs and valuation techniques used to measure fair value.

In general, fair values determined by Level 1 inputs use quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Fund has the ability to access.

Fair values determined by Level 2 inputs use other inputs that are observable, either directly or indirectly.  These Level 2 inputs include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, and other inputs such as interest rates and yield curves that are observable at commonly quoted intervals.

Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs, including inputs that are available in situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the related asset.  These level 3 fair value measurements are based primarily on management’s own estimates using pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies, or similar techniques taking into account the characteristics of the asset.