T Rowe Price Group Inc (TROW) stock analysis
T Rowe Price Group Inc (TROW) clears 4 of this site's 8 mechanical value filters, 7 of 8 Buffett-style checks and 4 of 5 Lynch-style checks. A free-cash-flow DCF does not fit financial services companies, so no margin of safety is shown. Its earnings quality rates Strong and it returns +7.0% to shareholders net of dilution. Figures are as of October 23, 2026, from SEC filings and market data refreshed weekly; this is educational analysis, not investment advice.
Data as of October 23, 2026. Refreshed weekly from SEC filings and market data.
What does T. Rowe Price do?
T. Rowe Price is an asset manager running mutual funds, ETFs, retirement products and institutional portfolios, and earns fees based on the assets it manages.
What stands out about T. Rowe Price?
- Misses 2 of the 8 value filters. It fails Market Cap > $25B ($22.1B) and PEG Ratio < 1.5 (4.75); the other 4 pass and 2 were not evaluated. See every filter.
- Strongest against peers: dividend yield. At 5.16% (peer median 1.56%) it ranks 3rd of 33 among financial services stocks this site tracks. See the ranking.
- P/E at the bottom of its own range. TROW trades at 9.9× trailing earnings; at the end of each of its last 5 fiscal years the multiple was between 10.8× and 15.9×.
- Short interest is elevated. 12.8% of the float is sold short, 17.2 days to cover, above this site's 5% flag. See the figures.
How has T. Rowe Price's share price moved?
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Is T. Rowe Price undervalued? The value diligence check
Every value-investing signal this site computes for this stock, gathered in one place: the same real numbers from the tools below, not a new score.
- Margin of safety (DCF) n/a (Financial Services)
- P/E vs. its own history 9.9x · at/below its cheapest point Real range: 10.8x–15.9x over 5 years (net income per diluted share from each fiscal year's 10-K, paired with the real closing price at that fiscal year-end).
- Wall St. analyst rating Hold · 2.50/5 18 analysts this month: 0 strong buy, 0 buy, 11 hold, 5 sell, 2 strong sell (Finnhub). Up from 2.47 last month.
- Altman Z″-Score (bankruptcy risk) n/a (Financial Services)
- Earnings quality (is the profit real?) Strong · 1 watch accruals 2.4% of assets · 78% of profit arrived as cash · stock comp 3.0% of revenue · share count −1.0% a year. From the latest 10-K (year to Dec 2025) - see the Earnings Quality Screener for how each check is scored.
- Shareholder yield (cash back to owners) +7.0% net Latest fiscal year (2025): dividends 5.2% + buybacks 2.8% − stock comp 1.0%, as a share of today's market cap. Over 14 years its split-adjusted share count fell 16%. See Shareholder Yield Leaders.
- Capital needed to grow (See's test) n/a (no current-assets line on its balance sheet)
- PEG (growth at a reasonable price) 4.75 · Well above fair P/E 9.9× ÷ 2.1% a year of growth behind it. 408th lowest of 447 stocks with a usable PEG. Lynch's fair value is a PEG of 1; a very high PEG usually means almost no growth, a very low one a profit spike. See PEG Ratio Ranking.
- Compounder lenses (4) 2 of 4 · misses capital-light (n/a), price Capital-light growth: cannot be measured (no current-assets line on its balance sheet); Profit is real: cleared; Cash to owners: cleared; Fair price (PEG): not cleared (PEG 4.75, over 1.5). See Compounders at a Fair Price, which also lets you move the PEG bar.
- Munger's Inversion Check 1 flag
- Standing vs. sector peers 4 of 4 measures above the median Compared with the 39 other financial services stocks this site tracks: 3 in the top third, 0 in the bottom third.
- Dividend payout sustainability 0/6 · clean
How does T. Rowe Price compare with its peers?
4 of 4 measures sit above the median of the 39 other financial services stocks tracked here, 3 in the top third.
- P/E ratiolower is cheaper · peer median 21.7× 9.9× ✓5th of 37
- Return on equityhigher is better · peer median 18% 20% –16th of 40
- Net marginhigher is better · peer median 20.2% 29.3% ✓10th of 40
- Dividend yieldamong dividend payers · peer median 1.56% 5.16% ✓3rd of 33
Peers are the stocks this site tracks in the same sector group, not every listed competitor. The bar runs from the weakest peer (left) to the strongest (right); the tick is the middle. Measures that don't apply to a sector (cash-flow yield for banks, debt for financials) are left out.
What would Buffett & Lynch say?
Buffett's checklist is built around durable, profitable businesses bought at sensible prices, and TROW clears it. In its favor: TROW is currently earning a strong return on shareholders' equity, and has kept that profitability up over five years, not just this year, carries a conservative amount of debt relative to equity, converts sales into profit at healthy margins, earns many times its interest expense, so debt service isn't a worry, is trading below what a conservative discounted-cash-flow estimate says it's worth - his own "price is what you pay, value is what you get" test, not a fixed multiple ceiling, and trades at a reasonable multiple of owner earnings, his own term for the real cash a business could pay out. Where it comes up short: TROW hasn't grown earnings per share fast enough over five years to impress him.
- ROE (TTM) > 11% ✓
- ROE (5yr avg) > 11% ✓
- Debt/Equity < 0.5 ✓
- Pretax margin > 15% ✓
- EPS growth (5yr) > 7% ✕
- Interest coverage > 5x ✓
- Trading below intrinsic value (DCF) ✓
- Price vs. owner earnings < 25x ✓
- Bonus: returning capital via buybacks FY2025
Lynch looked for growth stories that weren't overpriced for that growth, and TROW falls short of his bar. In its favor: TROW is growing earnings at the steady 10-20% pace of a proper Stalwart, isn't over-leveraged for a company of its type, isn't asking investors to overpay for that growth, and is backing its growth up with real free cash flow. Where it comes up short: TROW fails his signature PEG test, he'd call this pricey for the growth on offer.
- PEG < 1 ✕
- EPS growth 10%-20% ✓
- Debt/Equity < 0.6 ✓
- P/E < 27 ✓
- Price/FCF < 30 ✓
Quantitative approximations of each investor's documented approach, not endorsed by either investor or their estates - commentary, not this site's actual ranking criteria. Buffett never published a numeric checklist: only 2 of his 8 checks here trace to his own documented concepts ("owner earnings," from his 1986 shareholder letter, and "price is what you pay, value is what you get," his case against fixed P/E/P/B ceilings) - the other 6 (ROE, debt, margins, growth, interest coverage) use commonly-cited thresholds that are not numbers he himself published. The 8 hard filters below (plus the Munger check and Graham margin of safety) are this site's real, mechanical screen and are computed completely independently of the checklists above.
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Which of the 8 value filters does T. Rowe Price pass?
- Market Cap > $25B $22.1B
- Trailing P/E < 25 9.93
- PEG Ratio < 1.5 4.75
- Price/Book < 8 2.00
- Price/Sales < 7 2.91
- EPS Growth YoY > -5% +28.7%
- vs 50-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
- vs 200-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
What is T. Rowe Price's margin of safety?
A standard free-cash-flow DCF doesn't fit how financial services companies report cash flow.
Where is T. Rowe Price in its 52-week range?
What is the short interest in T. Rowe Price?
26,898,202 shares short as of 2026-09-30 (FINRA settlement date). Reported twice a month, so this only changes roughly every two weeks, not daily.
What could go wrong with T. Rowe Price? Munger's inversion check
"Invert, always invert." Instead of reasons to buy, these are reasons to hesitate, not a verdict, and not everything worth knowing about a business.
- Margin of safety, even in the bull case n/a (Financial Services)
- Short interest under 5% of float 12.8%
- Passes most of the 6 fundamental filters 4/6 passed
Doesn't cover circle of competence, management quality, or accounting concerns: those need judgment, not data.
How much have T. Rowe Price shareholders gained per year?
Earnings growth per share plus dividend.
An earnings-based proxy, not a stock-price total return - it doesn't capture multiple expansion/contraction or reinvested dividends. EPS from TROW's own 10-K filings; dividend yield is the current trailing yield on today's price, from the same weekly fetch as the rest of this site.
What do T. Rowe Price's 10-year financials show?
From TROW's own 10-K filings (SEC EDGAR): up to the last 10 fiscal years. Press any year's bars for the exact figures.
Frequently asked questions about T. Rowe Price
What kind of company is T. Rowe Price?
T. Rowe Price is an asset manager running mutual funds, ETFs, retirement products and institutional portfolios, and earns fees based on the assets it manages. This site groups it with Financial Services stocks.
Why does T. Rowe Price have no margin of safety on this site?
This site's DCF values a company from its free cash flow, and that does not fit financial companies, whose operating cash flow swings with client money, loans and trading rather than with what is left over for owners. So TROW gets no margin of safety; judge it on the other checks on this page, such as its filters, shareholder yield and ranking against its peers. The method is in the Intrinsic Value Calculator.
How many of this site's 8 value filters does T. Rowe Price pass?
TROW passes 4 of 8. It passes Trailing P/E < 25 (9.93), Price/Book < 8 (2.00), Price/Sales < 7 (2.91) and EPS Growth YoY > -5% (+28.7%). It misses Market Cap > $25B ($22.1B) and PEG Ratio < 1.5 (4.75). vs 50-day MA (±12%) and vs 200-day MA (±12%) were not evaluated, because the moving-average checks only run on stocks that clear the fundamentals first. The 8-filter list shows every stock that passes all of them.
Are T. Rowe Price's reported earnings reliable?
This site's earnings-quality check rates TROW Strong · 1 watch. accruals 2.4% of assets · 78% of profit arrived as cash · stock comp 3.0% of revenue · share count −1.0% a year. From the latest 10-K (year to Dec 2025). Concerns: cash conversion (on watch). The five checks are the Beneish M-score (manipulation risk), accruals, cash conversion, stock-based compensation and share dilution; the Earnings Quality Screener shows how each is graded.
When does T. Rowe Price report earnings next?
T. Rowe Price's next earnings report is expected on October 29, 2026 before the market opens, with analysts expecting earnings of $2.71 per share. Dates come from the Finnhub earnings calendar and can move. In its last 4 quarters it beat the estimate 3 times, by an average of +3.1%.
How heavily is T. Rowe Price stock sold short?
As of September 30, 2026, 12.8% of TROW's float was sold short (26,898,202 shares, 17.2 days to cover), down 2.0% from the prior reporting period. FINRA publishes short interest twice a month, so it changes about every two weeks; this site flags anything above 5% of the float.
Where do these numbers come from?
- Financial statements: T. Rowe Price's 10-K annual report for the year ended Dec 31, 2025, filed Feb 13, 2026 (filing index). Every earlier year in the 10-year financials comes from the company's older 10-K filings, all listed on SEC EDGAR.
- Prices and market data: quotes, P/E and analyst ratings from Finnhub; daily price history and the 52-week range from Twelve Data, both refreshed weekly. Short interest comes from FINRA, reported twice a month.
- How to check a figure: click any number in the card above to see its exact source, and read the Editorial Standards for every rule behind the checks.
About this T Rowe Price Group Inc analysis
This page shows every value-investing check the site runs on T Rowe Price Group Inc (TROW) in one place: the 8 mechanical filters, the Buffett and Lynch checklists, a margin of safety from a disclosed DCF, earnings quality, shareholder yield and how it ranks against its sector peers. The numbers come from SEC filings and public market data, refreshed weekly, and the same rules apply to every stock on the stock list. See Editorial Standards for the sources and the rules, or run your own filters in the stock screener.