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Closelook Records · Manager

Carl Icahn — Icahn Capital

B+ SEC EDGAR (13F-HR) ↗ Activist campaigns since the TWA takeover in 1985; Icahn Enterprises as the listed vehicle since 1987; this 13F series under Icahn's personal CIK

A sworn SEC filing, but a lagged quarterly window: long US-listed equities only, up to 45 days old on arrival, no return series derivable from the filing itself. The listed vehicle (IEP) adds an exchange-verified price series — but of the holding company's units, not of the book.

Asset focusUS equities around his own listed vehicle — 12 issuers, with Icahn Enterprises LP itself at 54% and the CVR energy complex at roughly 29%
StyleThe original corporate activist: board seats, consent solicitations and public campaigns, run through a permanent-capital holding company rather than a fund
StandingFive decades of campaigns made the name a byword for activism; filings are read for campaign entries and exits, not portfolio allocation

The record, as shown at the source

MetricValueAs ofSource
13F book (Q2 2026) $8.3B across 12 positions 2026-06-30, filed 14 Aug 2026 SEC EDGAR 13F-HR ↗
Top position Icahn Enterprises LP — 54.0% of the 13F book 2026-06-30, filed 14 Aug 2026 SEC EDGAR 13F-HR ↗

Figures are quoted exactly as the named source showed them on the stated date; they move daily — verify at the source before relying on them.

The Closelook battery insufficient data

No verifiable daily series is publicly available for this record yet, so we compute no battery and no rating — a missing series never becomes a low score. What would unlock it is described in the grade basis above and in the methodology.

The 13F-HR book as of 2026-06-30

$8.3B across 12 issuers, reported for quarter end 2026-06-30 and filed 2026-08-14 — the figures below are already up to a quarter old by construction. 13F-HR covers long US-listed equity positions only, as of quarter end, filed up to 45 days later. Not the whole book.

#IssuerValueWeight
1 Icahn Enterprises LP $4.5B 54%
2 CVR Energy Inc $2.0B 23.7%
3 CVR Partners, LP $0.5B 5.6%
4 Centuri Holdings, Inc. $0.4B 5.2%
5 International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. $0.3B 4.1%
6 EchoStar Corporation $0.1B 1.7%
7 JetBlue Airways Corp. $0.1B 1.4%
8 Monro, Inc. $0.1B 1.1%
9 Caesars Entertainment, Inc. $0.1B 0.9%
10 SandRidge Energy, Inc. $0.1B 0.8%

Quarter rotation vs 2026-03-31

New positions (0)

none

Exited (0)

none

Added (shares) (2)

  • Icahn Enterprises LP +12.6%
  • SandRidge Energy, Inc. +2.2%

Trimmed (shares) (2)

  • JetBlue Airways Corp. -38.6%
  • American Electric Power Company -63.9%

Direction from aggregated share counts (CUSIP-matched across quarters); counts are complete; lists show the largest moves by value, up to eight each.

Aggregated by issuer from the information table at SEC EDGAR.

Fast lane — 5% stakes (Schedule 13D/G)

Filed with the SEC within days of crossing 5% of a company's shares (13D amendments within two business days) — far faster than the quarterly 13F. 13D signals possible activist intent, 13G a passive stake. Last 365 days, 17 filings, newest first.

FiledCompanyTypeStake as filed
2026-09-25 Icahn Enterprises L.P. · amendment 13D · active 87.69%
2026-08-20 JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORP · amendment 13D · active 3.32% · below 5% / exited
2026-06-29 Icahn Enterprises L.P. · amendment 13D · active 87.28%
2026-06-09 JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORP · amendment 13D · active 5.55%
2026-05-14 JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORP · amendment 13D · active 6.72%
2026-04-17 Icahn Enterprises L.P. · amendment 13D · active 86.89%
2026-03-27 VISKASE HOLDINGS, INC. · amendment 13D · active 93.7%
2026-02-24 CVR Energy, Inc. · amendment 13D · active 70.8%
2026-01-30 ENZON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. · amendment 13D · active 48.6%
2026-01-29 Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. · amendment 13D · active 4.99% · below 5% / exited

The Closelook read

The original activist's filing is mostly a mirror: 54% of the $8.3B book is Icahn Enterprises itself, another 29% the CVR energy complex he controls — the campaigns live in the remaining slice.

This 13F reads differently from every other filer page in this catalogue: it is not an allocation book but an ownership structure. Icahn Enterprises LP (54%) and the CVR complex (29.3% across CVR Energy and CVR Partners) are permanent, controlled holdings — the filing's information lives at the edges, where campaign positions enter and leave. In Q2 2026 nothing entered and nothing left: the only movement was more IEP units (+12.6%, consistent with unit distributions taken in kind), a 38.6% cut to JetBlue and a 63.9% cut to American Electric Power. A static quarter from a filer whose record was built on noisy ones. The deeper verification question sits one level down: IEP's units are exchange-priced daily, so the market's live judgement of the whole structure is public — but the operating record inside (the activist returns themselves) reaches the public only through IEP's reported indicative NAV, a company-published figure. That is why a name this famous carries the same B+ as any other 13F-only record here: the grade measures what an outsider can verify, not the fame of the filer.

Entry updated 23 Oct 2026 · All records · Famous Calls Record