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Carl Icahn’s Current Investment Portfolio As Of September 2010

Carl Icahn is an American financier, corporate raider and private equity investor. He is with an estimated net worth of USD 10.5 billion one of the wealthiest persons in America. His business model follows a simple strategy: He buys huge positions of stock listed companies and starts to build up pressure on management to impose his interests. Mostly he wants to force companies to sell, merge or dissolve or sell unprofitable divisions. Latest successful investment speculation position was Genzyme for that a take-over offer by Sanofi-Aventis was available. Funds run by Icahn Capital LP were valued at USD 5.02 billion.

Here is a top 30 list of his investment positions as of September 30, 2010 according to the most recent form 13F-HR filed with the SEC.

During the third quarter Carl Icahn had 22 total positions. The sector allocations of Carl Icahn's portfolio went as follows:

Technology: 39.4%
Health Care: 38.6%
Oil & Gas: 7.5%
Consumer Goods: 5.5%
Consumer Services: 5.2%
Industrials: 1.1%
Utilities: 1%
Basic Materials: 0.7%

These are the details of Carl Icahn's top stock initiations, closings, buys, and sells:

Top positions closed out by Carl Icahn: APC, ESV, WEN, YHOO, BBI, SWHC, MCRS
Top positions initiated by Carl Icahn: MAT, MAS, DYN, CMC, CDNS
Top positions decreased by Carl Icahn: None
Top positions increased by Carl Icahn: MENT, HAIN, LWSN, CHK, MOT




Related stock ticker symbols:

MOT, GENZ, BIIB, CHK, AMLN, LGF, MENT, HAIN, LWSN, TTWO, REGN, MAT, CYBX, MAS, NRG, DYN, FRX, CMC, ENZN, CDNS, EXEL, ANX,


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