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List of Carl Icahn Holdings Loaded with Stocks You May Own

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler • October 9, 2015

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A look at the Carl Icahn holdings list shows that, like a lot of other top activist investors, he likes name-brand stocks.
That means the odds are good that a stock you own is among the Carl Icahn holdings.

So why does it matter? As an activist investor, Carl Icahn often does more than just agitate for fatter dividends or stock buybacks. He was instrumental in getting eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) to split off its PayPal unit, for example.

According to the latest 13F filings, eBay ranks third in the list of current Carl Icahn holdings. He owns 46.2 million shares of EBAY.

Some of the other top Carl Icahn holdings you should recognize include:

  • Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL): Carl Icahn owns 52.8 million shares.
  • Nuance Communications (Nasdaq: NUAN): Carl Icahn owns 60.8 million shares.
  • Hertz Global Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HTZ): Carl Icahn owns 51.9 million shares.
  • Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF): Carl Icahn owns 17 million shares.
  • Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK): Carl Icahn owns 73 million shares.
  • Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG): Carl Icahn owns 5 million shares.
  • Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV): Carl Icahn owns 16.3 million shares.

One trend that has become apparent over the past decade is that Icahn and other activist investors have gone after bigger and bigger fish, mostly because they can. According to Hedge Fund Research, the 71 hedge funds classified as activist funds held $120 billion in assets in 2014, up from less than $40 billion in 2009.

Take a look at this chart:

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But investors need not fear the arrival of an activist investor like Carl Icahn.

Most of the time, a stock rises about 5% when an activist investor takes a position. And if they succeed in unlocking shareholder value - often the reason an activist investor targets a company - everyone who owns the stock benefits.

And often the benefit lasts even after the activist investor has moved on. A study by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) found a 25% average increase in the share price of target companies in the two years after an activist investor had exited the position.

So if a Carl Icahn should take a position in a stock you own, just sit back and enjoy the ride.

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David Zeiler, Associate Editor for Money Morning at Money Map Press, has been a journalist for more than 35 years, including 18 spent at The Baltimore Sun. He has worked as a writer, editor, and page designer at different times in his career. He's interviewed a number of well-known personalities - ranging from punk rock icon Joey Ramone to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Over the course of his journalistic career, Dave has covered many diverse subjects. Since arriving at Money Morning in 2011, he has focused primarily on technology. He's an expert on both Apple and cryptocurrencies. He started writing about Apple for The Sun in the mid-1990s, and had an Apple blog on The Sun's web site from 2007-2009. Dave's been writing about Bitcoin since 2011 - long before most people had even heard of it. He even mined it for a short time.

Dave has a BA in English and Mass Communications from Loyola University Maryland.

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