Billionaire investor David Tepper, who also owns the Carolina Panthers NFL team, needs no introduction in the investing world. His fund, Appaloosa Management, has achieved gross annualized returns of 28% since its launch in 1993, and had over $6.9 billion in assets at the end of 2025. Tepper has made some big calls over his career, whether it was buying up distressed bank debt in 2009, betting that the government wouldn't let most banks fail, or in late 2010, when he went on CNBC and said, "Don't fight th ...