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, 2015

Date of reporting period: September 30, 2015
 
 
ITEM 1. SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS
Eagle Capital Growth Fund, Inc.
Portfolio of Investments (as of September 30, 2015) (unaudited)

Common Stock (99.8% of total investments)
                
Industry
                
Bank
  
Shares
    
Cost
    
Market Value
    
% of Total
Investments
  
Wells Fargo & Company
    
15,000
    
$
597,750
    
$
770,250
      
                   
$
770,250
      
(2.9
%)
Consumer
                                
The Coca-Cola Company
    
28,000
      
1,058,939
      
1,123,360
          
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
    
12,000
      
72,938
      
761,520
          
PepsiCo, Inc.
    
10,000
      
168,296
      
943,000
          
Procter & Gamble Company
    
15,000
      
1,038,636
      
1,079,100
          
                   
$
3,906,980
      
(14.6
%)
Data Processing
                                
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
    
16,000
      
490,404
      
1,285,760
          
Paychex, Inc.
    
31,500
      
853,258
      
1,500,345
          
                   
$
2,786,105
      
(10.4
%)
Drug/Medical Device
                                
Abbott Laboratories Inc.
    
7,500
      
175,588
      
301,650
          
Johnson & Johnson
    
11,000
      
730,210
      
1,026,850
          
Stryker Corp.
    
16,500
      
72,531
      
1,552,650
          
                   
$
2,881,150
      
(10.8
%)
Industrial
                                
Capital Southwest Corp.
    
25,750
      
1,145,483
      
1,220,550
          
Deere & Company
    
10,000
      
823,547
      
740,000
          
Emerson Electric Co.
    
25,500
      
1,193,259
      
1,126,335
          
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    
15,500
      
710,498
      
1,275,805
          
SL Industries Inc.*
    
11,800
      
442,543
      
401,200
          
Waters Corp.*
    
6,000
      
302,341
      
709,260
          
                   
$
5,473,150
      
(20.5
%)
Insurance
                                
AFLAC Corp.
    
19,000
      
1,018,259
      
1,104,470
          
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.*
    
17,000
      
1,303,475
      
2,216,800
          
The Chubb Corporation
    
14,000
      
752,716
      
1,717,100
          
Markel Corp.*
    
1,875
      
1,199,077
      
1,503,488
          
White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd.
    
1,000
      
730,019
      
747,300
          
                   
$
7,289,158
      
(27.3
%)
Mutual Fund Managers
                                
Franklin Resources, Inc.
    
45,000
      
1,884,631
      
1,676,700
          
T. Rowe Price Group Inc.
    
18,500
      
1,326,645
      
1,285,750
          
                   
$
2,962,450
      
(11.1
%)
Retailer
                                
eBay Inc.*
    
25,000
      
673,985
      
611,000
          
                   
$
611,000
      
(2.3
%)
                                 
Total common stock investments
                  
$
26,680,243
          
Money Market Funds (0.2% of total investments)
                  
LEVEL ONE
          
                   
Market Value
    
% of Total
 Investments
  
Federated Government Oblig. #5 Inst., 0.0%
                    
42,876
          
                   
$
42,876
      
(0.2
%)
Total investments
                  
$
26,723,119
          
All other assets
                    
59,114
          
Accrued investment advisory fees
                    
34,999
          
Accrued director fees
                    
17,000
          
All other liabilities
                    
13,421
          
Total net assets
                  
$
26,716,813
          
*Non-dividend paying security
                                
 
Footnote:

The following information is based upon federal income tax cost of portfolio investments as of September 30, 2015:

Net unrealized appreciation
  
$
7,915,213
  
         
Federal income tax basis
  
$
18,791,261
  
 
ITEM 2. Controls and Procedures
 
(a) As of October 5, 2015, 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.