Carl Icahn is an activist investor. He takes minority stakes in public companies and typically pushes for change. He invests with three investment vehicles: the 7 billion hedge fund, Icahn Partners, American Real Estate Partners (AREP), a public traded private equity firm, and ICAHN MANAGEMENT LP, a $2 billion hedge fund. GuruFocus tracks the third portfolio, which covers all the stocks owned by Icahn Partners. Mr. Icahn has a personal wealth of $17 billion.
Investing Philosophy:
Mr. Icahn buys beaten-down assets that nobody else wants, usually out of bankruptcy, then fix them up and sell them when they are back in favor. Regarding to his style, explains Icahn: The consensus thinking is generally wrong. If you go with a trend, the momentum always falls apart on you. So I buy companies that are not glamorous and usually out of favor. It is even better if the whole industry is out of favor.
(GuruFocus, November 1, 2009) Activist Investor Carl Icahn went to Fox Business Network explaining what exactly going on with small and middle business lender CIT Group Inc. In exchange giving the control of the board to the bond holders, the CIT Group Inc. is getting $1b from Carl Icahn as a line of credit during the prepackage bankruptcy period. More...
(GuruFocus, October 19, 2009) Invest Guru Carl Icahn offers $6 billion to the troubled company CIT Group Inc. to replace the company’s tender offer to bond holders. He said the offer can save the company $144 million. The shareholder right advocator thinks the company’s own plan favor the larger bond holders and disadvantages the small guys. More...
Carl Icahn recently gave an interview on CNBC in which he discussed the risks of REITs right now. Bill Ackman also provided his thesis at the Great Investors Best Ideas conference in Dallas, TX. Ackman specifically stated that he is shorting Realty Income Corp (Public, NYSE:O). The Carl Icahn video is viewable at the bottom of this article. More...
(GuruFocus, October 10, 2009) Investment Guru Carl Icahn is known as a nadvocate for shareholder’s right and for his activism investment approach. His long career has rewarded him enormously. In 2008 his net worth was US$14 billion, putting him in an eight way tie for the 46th richest man in the world.In 2009 Forbes recalculated his net worth as $9 billion, but now he is in an eight way tie for the 43rd richest man in the world.
Carl Icahn is not doing much with his portfolio these days. He even stopped writing blogs. But if he does something, it is usually big. This is the update of his Q2 portfolio. More...
At GuruFocus we track the stock holdings of Investment Gurus. As hard as we work to do a good job, we have a few built-in short falls. One of the areas is on private equity investments the Investment Gurus made. There are simply no data reported so we can keep track of. More...
This is the Q1 portfolio update of Carl Icahn's Icahn Capital Management LP. Carl Icahn likes to buy distressed situations. He is also a famed active investor, buy shares in a company and push for change. , he must see a lot of them these days. Carl Icahn owns 20 stocks with a total value of $2.3 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells. More...
Several years ago, I bought a big chunk of 'distressed' debt in a major company and landed on the creditors committee when it filed for Chapter 11. Shortly thereafter, the bankers who were hired by senior management told me that I would have to pay retention bonuses to keep its top managers from leaving. More...
If Carl Icahn buys stocks in a company, he may do something to the companies' management and business operations. CEOs hate him, shareholders like him. These are what he bought and sold during the 4th quarter of 2008. More...
Activist investor Carl Icahn buys Citigroup Inc., Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Exelixis Inc., TakeTwo Interactive Software Inc., sells Applera Corp. Applied Biosystems Group, WCI Communities Inc. during the 3-months ended 09/30/2008, according to the most recent filings of his investment company, Icahn Capital Management LP. Carl Icahn owns 29 stocks with a total value of $4.5 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells. More...
Few things bother me more than the titanic government debt load this country carries from years of reckless government borrowing and spending. We really have no ability to repay this debt, other than by continually issuing new debt to pay the interest on the old debt. More...
Billionaire activist invesor Carl Icahn's Yahoo position has been widely discussed. It seems now he finds opportunities in drug companies and his old favorite Motorola Inc. These are his buys and sells during the second quarter. Carl Icahn owns 25 stocks with a total value of $4.9 billion. More...
The long awaited Carl Icahn Blog is live now. Read his comment on corporate democracy: "Recently, there has been a great deal of outrage concerning the huge pay and severance packages awarded to a number of CEOs. There has been much criticism of the fact that CEOs earn 520 times that of the average worker..." More...
In a just released SEC filing, Icahn, who owns 6.4% of the stock, notified Motorola (MOT) management the gloves are now off. He is now urging his own Board nominations to shareholders. More...
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