UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM****10-K
(Mark one)
☒** **ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Fiscal Year EndedDecember 31, 2024
☐** **TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Transition Period from to
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| (Commission File Number) | (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)(Telephone Number) | (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
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| 1-9516 | ICAHN ENTERPRISES L.P. | Delaware | 13-3398766 |
16690 Collins Avenue,** **PH-1
Sunny Isles Beach,** FL **33160
**(305)**422-4100
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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| Title of Each Class | | Trading Symbol(s) | | Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered |
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| Depositary Units of Icahn Enterprises L.P. Representing Limited Partner Interests | | IEP | | Nasdaq Global Select Market |
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ⌧ No◻
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)of the Exchange Act. Yes◻ No ⌧
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ⌧ No◻
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ⌧ No◻
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
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| Large Accelerated Filer | ⌧ | | Accelerated Filer | ◻ | | Emerging Growth Company | ◻ |
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| Non-accelerated Filer | ◻ | | Smaller Reporting Company | ☐ | | | |
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.◻
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.⌧
If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements.☐
Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b).◻
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes☐ No⌧
The aggregate market value of Icahn Enterprises’ depositary units held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of June 30, 2024, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, based upon the closing price of depositary units on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”) on such date was$1.1 billion. As of February 25, 2025, there were 522,736,315 depositary units outstanding.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Report contains certain statements that are, or may be deemed to be, “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. All statements included in this Report, other than statements that relate solely to historical fact, are “forward-looking statements.” Such statements include, but are not limited to, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance, achievements or events, or any statement that may relate to strategies, plans or objectives for, or potential results of, future operations, financial results, financial condition, business prospects, growth strategy or liquidity, and are based upon management’s current plans and beliefs or current estimates of future results or trends. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by phrases such as “believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “should,” “seeks,” “predicts,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “projects,” “estimates,” “plans,” “could,” “designed,” “should be” and other similar expressions that denote expectations of future or conditional events rather than statements of fact.
Forward-looking statements include certain statements made under the caption, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” under Item 7 of this Report, but also forward-looking statements that appear in other parts of this Report. Forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on certain assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from trends, plans, or expectations set forth in the forward-looking statements. These include risks related to economic downturns, substantial competition and rising operating costs; the impacts from the Russia/Ukraine conflict and conflict in the Middle East, including economic volatility and the impacts of export controls and other economic sanctions; risks related to our investment activities, including the nature of the investments made by the private funds in which we invest, including the impact of the use of leverage through options, short sales, swaps, forwards and other derivative instruments; risk related to our ability to comply with the covenants in our senior notes and the risk of foreclosure on the assets securing our notes; declines in the fair value of our investments, losses in the private funds and loss of key employees; risks related to our ability to continue to conduct our activities in a manner so as to not be deemed an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or to be taxed as a corporation; risks relating to short sellers and associated litigation and regulatory inquires; risks related to our general partner and controlling unitholder; pledges of our units by our controlling unitholder; risks related to our energy business, including the volatility and availability of crude oil, other feed stocks and refined products, declines in global demand for crude oil, refined products and liquid transportation fuels, unfavorable refining margin (crack spread), interrupted access to pipelines, significant fluctuations in nitrogen fertilizer demand in the agricultural industry and seasonality of results; volatile commodity pricing and higher industry utilization and oversupply risks relating to potential strategic transactions involving our Energy segment, and the impact of tariffs; risks related to our automotive activities and exposure to adverse conditions in the automotive industry, including as a result of the Chapter 11 filing of our automotive parts subsidiary; risks related to our food packaging activities, including competition from better capitalized competitors, inability of our suppliers to timely deliver raw materials, and the failure to effectively respond to industry changes in casings technology; supply chain issues; inflation, including increased costs of raw materials and shipping; interest rate increases; labor shortages and workforce availability; risks related to our real estate activities, including the extent of any tenant bankruptcies and insolvencies; and risks related to our home fashion operations, including changes in the availability and price of raw materials, manufacturing disruptions, and changes in transportation costs and delivery times; political and regulatory uncertainty, including changing economic policy and the imposition of tariffs. These risks and uncertainties also include the risks and uncertainties described elsewhere in this Report, including under the caption “Risk Factors,” under Item 1A of this Report. Additionally, there may be other factors not presently known to us or which we currently consider to be immaterial that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.
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SUMMARY RISK FACTORS
Investing in our securities involves certain risks. Before investing in any of our securities, you should carefully consider the following summary of the principal factors that make an investment in our securities speculative or risky as well as the risks described under the caption “Risk Factors,” under Item 1A of this Report. If any of these risks actually occurs, it could have a material adverse effect on our businesses. The risks described below and under the caption “Risk Factors,” under Item 1A of this Report are not the only risks that affect our businesses. Additional risks that are unknown or not presently deemed significant may also have a material adverse effect on our businesses. The following is a summary of our risk factors that appear in Item 1A of this Report.
Risks Relating to Our Structure
| ● | Our general partner, and its control person, has significant influence over us, and sales by our controlling unitholder pursuant to a margin call or otherwise could cause our unit price or the value of our assets in the Investment Funds to decline or otherwise impact our liquidity; |
| ● | We have engaged, and in the future may engage, in transactions with our affiliates; |
| ● | We are subject to the risk of becoming an investment company; |
| ● | We may structure transactions in a less advantageous manner to avoid becoming subject to the Investment Company Act; |
| ● | We may become taxable as a corporation if we are no longer treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes; |
| ● | We may be negatively impacted by the potential for changes in tax laws; |
| ● | Holders of depositary units may be required to pay tax on their share of our income even if they did not receive cash distributions from us; |
| ● | Tax gain or loss on the disposition of our depositary units could be more or less than expected; |
| ● | Tax-exempt entities may recognize unrelated business taxable income they receive from holding our units, and may face other unique issues specific to their U.S. federal income tax classification; |
| ● | Non-U.S. persons may be subject to withholding regimes and U.S. federal income tax on certain income they may earn from holding or disposing of our units; |
| ● | We may be liable for any underwithholding by nominees on our distributions or on transfers of our units made after January 1, 2023; |
| ● | Our unitholders likely will be subject to state and local taxes and return filing or withholding requirements in states in which they do not live as a result of investing in our units; |
| ● | We prorate our items of income, gain, loss and deduction between transferors and transferees of our units based upon the ownership of our units at the close of business on the last day of each month, instead of on the basis of the date a particular unit is transferred. The IRS may challenge this treatment, which could change the allocation of items of income, gain, loss and deduction among our unitholders; |
| ● | A unitholder whose units are loaned to a “short seller” to cover a short sale of units may be considered as having disposed of those units. If so, such unitholder would no longer be treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a partner with respect to those units during the period of the loan and may recognize gain or loss from the disposition; |
| ● | If the IRS makes audit adjustments to our income tax returns for tax years beginning after 2017, it (and some states) may collect any resulting taxes (including any applicable penalties and interest) directly from us, in which case our cash available to service debt or pay distributions to our unitholders, if and when resumed, could be substantially reduced; |
| ● | We may be subject to the pension liabilities of our affiliates; |
| ● | We are a limited partnership and a ‘‘controlled company’’ within the meaning of the Nasdaq rules and as such are exempt from certain corporate governance requirements; |
| ● | Certain members of our management team may be involved in other business activities that may involve conflicts of interest; |
| ● | Holders of Icahn Enterprises’ depositary units have limited voting rights, including rights to participate in our management; |
| ● | Holders of Icahn Enterprises’ depositary units may not have limited liability in certain circumstances and may be personally liable for the return of distributions that cause our liabilities to exceed our assets; |
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| ● | Since we are a limited partnership, you may not be able to pursue legal claims against us in U.S. federal courts; and |
| ● | We have become subject to, and may in the future be subject to, short selling strategies driving down the market price of our depositary units and increasing the volatility of the trading market for our depositary units, as well as regulatory investigations and litigation. |
Risks Relating to Liquidity and Capital Requirements
| ● | We are a holding company and depend on the businesses of our subsidiaries to satisfy our obligations; |
| ● | To service our indebtedness, we will require a significant amount of cash. Our ability to maintain our current cash position or generate cash depends on many factors beyond our control; |
| ● | Our failure to comply with the covenants contained under any of our debt instruments, including the indentures governing our senior notes (including our failure to comply as a result of events beyond our control), could result in an event of default or a foreclosure on the collateral securing the notes that would materially and adversely affect our financial condition; |
| ● | We may not have sufficient funds necessary to finance a change of control offer that may be required by the indentures governing our senior notes; |
| ● | We have made significant investments in the Investment Funds and negative performance of the Investment Funds may result in a significant decline in the value of our investments; and |
| ● | Future cash distributions to Icahn Enterprises’ unitholders, if any, can be affected by numerous factors. |
Risks Relating to Our Investment Segment
| ● | Our investments may be subject to significant uncertainties; |
| ● | The historical financial information for the Investment Funds is not necessarily indicative of its future performance; |
| ● | The Investment Funds’ investment strategy involves numerous and significant risks, including the risk that we may lose some or all of our investments in the Investment Funds. This risk may be magnified due to concentration of investments and investments in undervalued securities; |
| ● | We may not be able to identify suitable investments, and our investments may not result in favorable returns or may result in losses; |
| ● | Successful execution of our activist investment activities involves many risks, certain of which are outside of our control; |
| ● | The Investment Funds make investments in companies we do not control; |
| ● | The use of leverage in investments by the Investment Funds may pose a significant degree of risk and may enhance the possibility of significant loss in the value of the investments in the Investment Funds; |
| ● | The possibility of increased regulation could result in additional burdens on our Investment segment; |
| ● | The ability to hedge investments successfully is subject to numerous risks; |
| ● | The Investment Funds invest in distressed securities, as well as bank loans, asset backed securities and mortgage-backed securities; and |
| ● | The Investment Funds may invest in companies that are based outside of the United States, which may expose the Investment Funds to additional risks not typically associated with investing in companies that are based in the United States. |
Risks Relating to our Consolidated Operating Subsidiaries
Our consolidated operating subsidiaries are subject to various risks, including but not limited to:
| ● | Changes in regulations and regulatory actions; |
| ● | Operational disruptions, damage to property, injury to persons or environmental and legal liability; |
| ● | Environmental, health or safety laws and regulations; |
| ● | Increased investor and market interest in environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) matters; |
| ● | Volatility of commodity prices; |
| ● | Compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Renewable Fuel Standard; |
| ● | Climate change laws and regulations; |
| ● | Operations in foreign countries; and |
| ● | Significant labor disputes involving any of our businesses or one or more of their customers or suppliers. |
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ICAHN ENTERPRISES L.P.