Analyzing Carl Icahn's Market-Beating Portfolio

 | Nov 10, 2022 11:39

  • Carl Icahn is one of the greatest names in value investing
  • Like Warren Buffett, Icahn has been big on energy companies this year
  • Let's take a deep look at the legendary investor's portfolio with InvestingPro

    • Born in Queens, New York City, on February 16, 1936, Carl Icahn started his investing career at Dreyfus & Co. as a stockbroker. From there, the philosophy major and medicine dropout climbed up the investing world ladder by working with options first at Tessel Patrick & Co and then at Gruntal & Co, where he eventually went on to head the company's options department.

    His greatest breakthrough, however, came only a little later when Icahn got a family member to help fund his idea of acquiring major stakes in troubled companies in order to improve their performance and, later, re-sell them for hefty profits. That’s how Icahn & Co. was born, and, as the saying goes, the rest is history.

    From then on, Icahn built a global conglomerate that helped shape the history of investing. Until this day, Icahn is widely known for finding diamonds in the rough—but only if the risk/reward ratio is interesting and attractive. Like Warren Buffett, he is a fervent advocate of value investing.

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    Now let's take a look at Carl Icahn's current portfolio using the InvestingPro tool.

    In the following chart, we can see the evolution and the accumulated profitability. Clearly ascending and, undoubtedly, an investment success.