Baby boomers will spur this dividend

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T. ROWE PRICE GROUP INC. $93 is a buy. The asset manager (Nasdaq symbol TROW; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 224.3 million; Market cap: $20.9 billion; Dividend yield: 5.2%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.troweprice.com) provides financial advice and products to individuals and institutions worldwide. It last raised your quarterly dividend by 1.7% with the March 2023 payment, to $1.22 a share from $1.20. The new annual rate of $4.88 yields a high 5.2%. The company’s fee income varies with the value of the securities it manages. Its assets under management as of September 30, 2023, were $1.35 trillion, down from $1.40 trillion at the end of August but up from $1.28 trillion at the end of 2022. T. Rowe Price’s long-term prospects remain bright, particularly as more baby boomers retire over the next few years. The stock also trades at just 13.0 times its likely 2023 earnings of $7.13 a share. T. Rowe Price remains a buy. buy…