On the 31st of December, the T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund sold 2.9 million Zendesk (NYSE:ZEN) shares for $413 million at an average price of $143.12 per share. Shares of Zendesk are up 4.37% since the transaction.
The T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund's holding in Zendesk decreased to about 7.9 million shares with the transaction.
The T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund first bought Zendesk stock in the first quarter of 2015. The T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund also owns Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM), Intuit Corp (NASDAQ:INTU) and Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK). Zendesk is its number eight position by number of shares and market value among software stocks.
Other investors who also reduced their Zendesk shares include Citigroup (NYSE:C), Eaton Vance (NYSE:EV) Management, and Fisher Asset Management. Contrary to the T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund, Bridgewater Associates, California State Teachers Retirement System, and Capital International Inc. added to ZEN shares, while Champlain Investment Partners, Nikko Asset Management Americas, and Point72 Asset Management introduced ZEN shares to their portfolio.
The T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund has also recently reduced their share in RealPage, Inc. (RP) and Slack Technologies Inc (NYSE:WORK). The total value of the shares sold is estimated at around $1.2 billion.
Additionally, the T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund increased their share in Proofpoint Inc (NASDAQ:PFPT) and Bill.com Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BILL). The total value of the shares bought is estimated at around $904 million.
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), Tyson Foods Inc (NYSE:TSN), J.B.Hunt Transport Services Inc (JBHT), Concho Resources Inc (NYSE:CXO), Visteon Corp (NASDAQ:VC), Aptiv PLC (NYSE:APTV), Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM), Planet Fitness Inc (NYSE:PLNT), MyoKardia, Inc. (NASDAQ:MYOK), Endava plc (NYSE:DAVA) and Palomar Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLMR). The total value of the shares sold is estimated at around $4.8 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), RH (NYSE:RH), Franks International NV (FI), 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 $3.6 billion.