Is QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) the Best AI Stock to Buy According to Carolina Panthers Owner Billionaire David Tepper?

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Is QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) the Best AI Stock to Buy According to Carolina Panthers Owner Billionaire David Tepper?

We recently published a list of 

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. Since QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) ranks 9th on the list, it deserves a deeper look.

Billionaire 

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 stands out amongst ********* hedge fund managers for his two recent moves: his bet on ******** stocks despite their volatility and underperformance and his early arrival at the AI party.

David Tepper’s passion for investing goes all the way back to his high-school days. He once recalled:

“I remember my dad had made some small investments in a few companies, so I would track them and see how he was doing.”

Tepper bought his first stock when he was in high school — 100 shares of a $2 stock, “but then the whole thing went bankrupt,” he said.

“It was a bad investment, but that didn’t deter me.”

Today, Tepper is worth about $20 billion. He was piling into AI stocks when they were just getting started. This wasn’t a fluke or a one-off success from the billionaire. Data from Bloomberg shows that Tepper has posted annualized returns of 28% for investors, before fees. In 2022, when markets were tumbling amid inflation storm and rising interest rates, Appaloosa returned 12.5%. Tepper’s instincts and grip over financial markets were strong even when he was in his late 20s and 30s, raking in huge profits for Goldman Sachs, which he’d joined in 1985.

Tepper rose to fame at Goldman when his portfolio stood out in the midst of the market ****** of 1987.

According to The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World’s Top Hedge Funds, written by Maneet Ahuja, Tepper recalled:

“Going into the ****** I had set up my entire portfolio as just short—I had no long positions. I made a fortune during and after the ******,” he says with a chuckle. “It was very cool.” Unfortunately, the rest of the firm didn’t do as well. “I still got a raise but not as much as I should have.”

Tepper’s fund Appaloosa Management has released its latest holdings data and it’s time to see which AI stocks are in the billionaire’s portfolio. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter’s strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 275% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 150 percentage points (

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Is QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) the Best AI Stock to Buy According to Carolina Panthers Owner Billionaire David Tepper?

Qualcomm Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM)

Billionaire David Tepper’s Stake: $167,311,200

QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) was seen as a laggard in the AI arms race but all of a sudden the stock has a new growth catalyst: AI PCs and AI handsets.

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O’keefe Stevens Advisory explained its bullish thesis on the stock based on these two factors in its 

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“During the quarter, the A.I. rally broadened beyond the obvious players of Nvidia, AMD, and hyperscalers. QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), a long-standing investment, is gaining recognition for integrating artificial intelligence into mobile phones. Qualcomm’s A.I. on-device capabilities enable real-time language translation, improved voice recognition, and sophisticated imaging techniques as A.I. becomes more integral to mobile experiences. Qualcomm benefits by leading the market in providing robust, efficient, and versatile A.I. solutions. A.I. could be the first technology advancement in several years to accelerate the smartphone replacement cycle as users ******* these advanced capabilities.”

The company’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform can power smartphones to process up to 10 billion parameters of generative AI models, effectively making them intelligent personal assistants.

What about AI PCs?

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has announced that its Surface Laptop and Surface Pro will be powered by QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) chips. These devices can run several AI tasks without the internet.  QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) is a key partner of

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to deliver Copilot+ PCs.

Wall Street expects Qualcomm’s revenue to grow 10% in 2025 and earnings to rise by 13.10% in the year. Despite these growth catalysts, QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) is trading at a forward P/E of 20, lower than the industry median of 23.73.

Overall, QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) ranks 9th on Insider Monkey’s list titled 

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. While we acknowledge the potential of QUALCOMM Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM), our conviction ***** in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than QCOM but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the 

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