Carl Icahn just sold 7 million shares of Apple
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Icahn still owns roughly 45.76 million shares of Apple.
Last May, Icahn wrote an open letter to CEO Tim Cook basically saying he thinks the market significantly undervalues Apple.
It is our belief that large institutional investors, Wall Street analysts and the news media alike continue to misunderstand Apple and generally fail to value Apple's net cash separately from its business, fail to adjust earnings to reflect Apple's real cash tax rate, fail to recognize the growth prospects of Apple entering new categories, and fail to recognize that Apple will maintain pricing and margins, despite significant evidence to the contrary. Collectively, these failures have caused Apple's earnings multiple to stay irrationally discounted, in our view.
Since then, Apple's share price has significantly fallen. It's currently trading at around $97 per share, down from a peak of $132 last May.
At the time, Icahn argued that he believed that Apple shares were worth $240. He publicly called for Apple to increase its share-buyback program shortly after it had already announced a $50 billion increase in its share-repurchase program.
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