Carl Icahn: Corporate America Only Has Itself To Blame

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During his recent interview with The Forbes Iconoclast Summit, Carl Icahn explained why Corporate America only has itself to blame. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Icahn: One of the major problems I think, and nobody’s blamed them, but it’s Corporate America. It’s the CEOs, rubber stamp boards, and the money … Read More

Carl Icahn: The Death of Activism

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In his latest interview with CNBC, Carl Icahn discusses the death of activism. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Icahn: It makes no sense to make it tougher and tougher for the activism to work and with me we take big positions, we make tender offers, we have permanent capital, … Read More

Carl Icahn: Q3 2019 Top 10 Holdings

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One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

Carl Icahn: The Life Of An Activist Investor

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If you’ve ever wonder what it’s like to be an activist investor, you may want to take a look at Carl Icahn’s latest open letter to the shareholders of HP and his strong criticism of the HP board for not pursuing its possible acquisition by Xerox. Icahn currently owns around … Read More

Carl Icahn: His Most Bizarre Acquisition Story

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One of our favorite investors here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Carl Icahn, and one of my favorite Icahn interviews is one he did with Dealbook. In this interview he shares his most bizarre acquisition story. It’s a story about ACF. Following is an excerpt which I have edited for … Read More