Fortune favors the perspicacious. Those who amass wealth in the shadow of financial tempests do so not by chance, but by the quiet intuition of a man who reads the wind before the storm. David Tepper, that shrewd navigator of markets, has long charted his course through the tempests of Wall Street. His name, etched in the annals of capital like a blade through silk.
In his youth, Tepper tilled the fields of Goldman Sachs, sowing seeds in the soil of junk bonds. By 1993, he founded Appaloosa Management, a beast of industry that now grazes on a net worth of $23.7 billion. Yet his gaze lingers on two titans: Alphabet and Meta, their empires sprawling like forests in the digital dusk.
Alphabet’s class C shares, those gnarled roots of the tech colossus, were first plucked from the earth in 2015. For years, Tepper’s hedge fund held them close, a gardener tending to a rare vine. But in Q2 2025, the hedge fund’s branches shed a quarter of their leaves, selling 510,000 shares as if autumn had arrived early.
Meta’s story is older, like a tree whose sapling was planted in 2014. Tepper uprooted it then, only to replant it in 2016. This time, it grew tall-until Q2, when 150,000 shares were cast aside, trimming the hedge fund’s stake by a quarter again. The act is not mere pruning; it is the culling of branches that no longer reach toward the sun.
Whispers of Retreat: The Hedge Fund’s Dance with Giants
Wall Street, that chorus of analysts, sings a different hymn. LSEG’s surveys paint a landscape where 54 of 66 analysts hail Alphabet as a “buy,” while 58 of 67 do the same for Meta. Yet Tepper’s pruning seems at odds with this chorus. Perhaps he hears a dissonance in the harmony-a crack in the foundation where others see only marble.
Analysts’ price targets are modest for Alphabet, a whisper of growth. Meta’s, however, hums with a 15% promise. But Tepper, that sly fox, has also added shares of Amazon and Nvidia to his portfolio. His disinterest in Alphabet and Meta may not be disdain, but a shift in gaze-a man who sees the horizon beyond the forest.
Valuation, too, is not his concern. Both stocks dipped in Q2, yet Tepper’s shears fell. What gnaws at him? Perhaps the scent of overgrowth, the knowledge that even giants must shed bark to grow anew.
The River’s Course: To Follow or Not to Follow
Does Tepper know what Wall Street does not? Perhaps. Yet I find solace in the analysts’ chorus. Alphabet’s Google Cloud surges like a spring river, while Search and YouTube bloom with the vigor of early dawn. Generative AI, that fickle muse, bends to Google’s will. Waymo, its Waymo, awaits the thaw of a robotaxi winter.
Meta’s gardens, too, are verdant. Advertisers pour gold into the chalice of Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp. AI glasses, those spectacles of the future, may yet turn Meta’s fields into a harvest of gold. And in the shadows, its bet on AI superintelligence flickers like a candle in the wind.
Tepper, for all his brilliance, is but a man. His pruning is not prophecy. For long-term investors, the path lies not in shadowing his steps, but in reading the seasons of the market. The river finds its course, and we, its humble travelers, must learn to navigate. 🌿
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