Billionaire David Tepper Sells These 5 Stocks to Buy This 1 Stock

• David Tepper sold his full Intel (INTC) involvement worthy $205M contempt caller authorities backing and Nvidia partnership.

• UnitedHealth (UNH) was Tepper’s largest merchantability astatine $780M aft buying a akin magnitude the anterior quarter.

• He sold galore different stocks, including AI ones, to bargain this 1 betterment bet.

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David Tepper is 1 of the astir palmy hedge money managers successful history, with a nett worthy of ~$23.7 billion. He's been selling UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), Vistra (NYSE:VST), and Micron (NASDAQ:MU). He's piling into a lesser-known banal alternatively called Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR), and we'll look into wherefore successful a bit.

Tepper is the laminitis of Appaloosa Management and is besides the proprietor of the NFL's Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC successful Major League Soccer.

Tepper is credited with playing a large relation successful the endurance of Goldman Sachs aft the 1987 banal marketplace crash. After being passed implicit for a spouse astatine Goldman Sachs twice, Tepper discontinue successful December 1992 and created Appaloosa Management successful aboriginal 1993. This hedge money has been raking it in. It has returned astir 25% a twelvemonth since its founding.

One of his hallmark strategies is to bargain up distressed stocks, particularly those of companies with debt-laden equilibrium sheets. He has successfully invested successful galore specified stocks, and the contrarian attack paid disconnected arsenic the companies recovered. This is precisely what helium did successful 2009 and earned $7 cardinal by buying distressed fiscal stocks successful February and March.

He's present selling galore AI holdings and fashionable stocks, a precise contrarian move. Let's instrumentality a look.

Tepper's largest merchantability for Q3 2025 was UNH. He shaved disconnected 92% of his position, oregon astir $780 cardinal worthy of the stock. UNH turned into a fan-favorite for hedge funds aft it halved successful value. After all, however tin you walk connected America's largest security concern astatine a 50% discount?

Tepper is doing conscionable that aft buying a akin magnitude of shares successful Q2 2025. It's chartless erstwhile helium bought successful Q2 2025, but if helium bought astatine the peak, helium whitethorn beryllium conscionable cutting his losses. If helium bought the dip, the ongoing "recovery" whitethorn beryllium excessively dilatory for his liking, and he's good with the tidy profits.

Wall Street's hopes were dashed for Intel arsenic it failed to marque usage of the AI headwinds... close up until the company's caller CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, cozied up with the Trump administration. He's been capable to unafraid U.S. authorities + SoftBank investments. Even Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), a "competitor," partnered up with Intel with a $5 cardinal woody this September. This led to Intel's "best time since 1987".