How to buy Icahn Enterprises L-P stock | $50.68

Icahn Enterprises L.P is a conglomerates business based in the US. Icahn Enterprises L-P shares (IEP) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Icahn Enterprises L-P employs 28,033 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$6 billion.

How to buy shares in Icahn Enterprises L-P

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3. Search for Icahn Enterprises L-P. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: IEP. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Icahn Enterprises L-P reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$50.68, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Icahn Enterprises L-P, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Icahn Enterprises L-P. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Icahn Enterprises L-P share price

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Icahn Enterprises L-P shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$50.68
52-week range	USD$30.3362 - USD$59.0286
50-day moving average	USD$51.0867
200-day moving average	USD$50.5032
Wall St. target price	USD$70
PE ratio	20.3075
Dividend yield	USD$8 (15.71%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$3.089

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Icahn Enterprises L-P price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $50.68 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-08)	-8.44%
1 month (2020-12-16)	-0.72%
3 months (2020-10-16)	-1.34%
6 months (2020-07-15)	0.96%

1 year (2020-01-15)	-21.56%
2 years (2019-01-15)	-24.14%
3 years (2018-01-12)	55.89
5 years (2016-01-15)	57.82

Is Icahn Enterprises L-P under- or over-valued?

Valuing Icahn Enterprises L-P stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Icahn Enterprises L-P's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Icahn Enterprises L-P's P/E ratio

Icahn Enterprises L-P's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 20x. In other words, Icahn Enterprises L-P shares trade at around 20x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Icahn Enterprises L-P financials

Revenue TTM	USD$6 billion
Gross profit TTM	USD$15 million
Return on assets TTM	-6.41%
Return on equity TTM	-29.88%
Profit margin	-31.9%
Book value	$17.606
Market capitalisation	USD$11.8 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Icahn Enterprises L-P shares

There are currently 485,787 Icahn Enterprises L-P shares held short by investors – that's known as Icahn Enterprises L-P's "short interest". This figure is 49.2% up from 325,584 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Icahn Enterprises L-P shares can be evaluated.

Icahn Enterprises L-P's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Icahn Enterprises L-P's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Icahn Enterprises L-P shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Icahn Enterprises L-P shares traded daily (recently around 212134.06113537). Icahn Enterprises L-P's SIR currently stands at 2.29. In other words for every 100,000 Icahn Enterprises L-P shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2290 shares are currently held short.

However Icahn Enterprises L-P's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Icahn Enterprises L-P shares, or, against the total number of tradable Icahn Enterprises L-P shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Icahn Enterprises L-P's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Icahn Enterprises L-P shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0124% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Icahn Enterprises L-P shares, roughly 12 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Icahn Enterprises L-P.

Find out more about how you can short Icahn Enterprises L-P stock.

Icahn Enterprises L-P share dividends

We're not expecting Icahn Enterprises L-P to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Icahn Enterprises L-P's shares ever split?

Icahn Enterprises L-P's shares were split on a 10059:1000 basis on 13 November 2012. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 10059 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Icahn Enterprises L-P shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 90.1% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Icahn Enterprises L-P shares which in turn could have impacted Icahn Enterprises L-P's share price.

Icahn Enterprises L-P share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Icahn Enterprises L-P's shares have ranged in value from as little as $30.3362 up to $59.0286. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Icahn Enterprises L-P's is 1.0199. This would suggest that Icahn Enterprises L-P's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Icahn Enterprises L-P overview

Icahn Enterprises L.P., through its subsidiaries, operates in investment, energy, automotive, food packaging, metals, real estate, and home fashion businesses in the United States and Internationally. The company's Investment segment invests its proprietary capital through various private investment funds. Its Energy segment refines and markets transportation fuels; and produces and markets nitrogen fertilizers in the form of urea ammonium nitrate and ammonia. The company's Automotive segment is involved in the retail and wholesale distribution of automotive parts in the aftermarket; and offers automotive repair and maintenance services. This segment also purchases and leases vehicles. Its Food Packaging segment produces and sells cellulosic, fibrous, and plastic casings that are used to prepare and package processed meat products. The company's Metals segment collects, processes, and sells ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as processes and distributes steel pipe and plate products. Its Real Estate segment is involved in the rental of retail, office, and industrial properties; construction and sale of single-family and multi-family homes, lots in subdivisions and planned communities, and raw land for residential development; and golf and club operations. The company's Home Fashion segment manufactures, sources, markets, distributes, and sells home fashion consumer products. Icahn Enterprises L.P. was founded in 1987 and is based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Icahn Enterprises L-P is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.192% of Icahn Enterprises L-P shares are held by insiders and 97.897% by institutions.

• How many people work for Icahn Enterprises L-P?

  Latest data suggests 28,033 work at Icahn Enterprises L-P.

• When does the fiscal year end for Icahn Enterprises L-P?

  Icahn Enterprises L-P's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Icahn Enterprises L-P based?

  Icahn Enterprises L-P's address is: 16690 Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach, FL, United States, 33160

• What is Icahn Enterprises L-P's ISIN number?

  Icahn Enterprises L-P's international securities identification number is: US4511001012

• What is Icahn Enterprises L-P's CUSIP number?

  Icahn Enterprises L-P's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 029169109