Icahn Enterprises

Two 'Icahn Enterprises' stories November 2013 - January 2014

Carl Icahn adds another $500 million into $AAPL, total now at $3.6 billion and closing in on 1% ownership

Mark Gurman Jan 23 2014 - 12:16 pm PT

Bought another $500mil of $AAPL tday, bringing our total to $3.6 billion. If board doesn’t see AAPL’s ‘no brainer’ value we sure do.

— Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) January 23, 2014

Just yesterday, activist investor Carl Icahn revealed that he has invested another $500 million into AAPL stock. Just around 24 hours later, Icahn has posted on Twitter that he invested another $500 million. That brings his total investment into Apple stock to $3.6 billion. This means that he is closing in at 1% ownership of Apple’s stock…

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Size of Carl Icahn’s AAPL stock purchase revealed: $1.85B at the time, now around $2.5B

Ben Lovejoy Nov 15 2013 - 6:21 am PT

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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn tweeted back in August that he had taken “a large position” in Apple, but we didn’t know at the time what the number was, beyond speculation that it was more than $1B.

A regulatory filing now reveals that he purchased 3.88M shares, which at the time would have been worth $1.85B, reports Business Insider. With the increase in AAPL’s stock price, and additional purchases Icahn made since, it’s estimated that he now holds around $2.5B worth of Apple shares.