Updating Our High-Growth Payers: T. Rowe Price Group

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T. ROWE PRICE GROUP INC. $108 is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol TROW; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 222.6 million; Market cap: $24.0 billion; Dividend yield: 4.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.troweprice.com) is a leading seller of mutual funds and wealth management services. T. Rowe Price last raised your quarterly dividend by 1.6% with the March 2024 payment, to $1.24 a share from $1.22. The annual rate of $4.96 yields a high 4.6%. T. Rowe Price has now increased its annual dividend payment for 37 consecutive years. The company’s fee income rises with the value of the mutual funds and other securities it manages. Thanks to the strong stock market, T. Rowe Price had $1.59 trillion in assets under management as of July 31, 2024, up 9.8% from $1.45 billion at the start of the year. Investors outside the U.S. account for roughly 9% of the company’s assets under management. Thanks mainly to those higher assets, T. Rowe Price’s revenue in the…