ProShare Advisors LLC Reduces Stock Holdings in T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. $TROW

ProShare Advisors LLC lessened its stake in shares of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TROW) by 14.6% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 1,613,140 shares of the asset manager’s stock after selling 274,795 shares during the period. ProShare Advisors LLC owned approximately 0.73% of T. Rowe Price Group worth $165,573,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Woodline Partners LP lifted its holdings in shares of T. Rowe Price Group by 41.0% in the 1st quarter. Woodline Partners LP now owns 18,809 shares of the asset manager’s stock worth $1,728,000 after buying an additional 5,467 shares during the period. Focus Partners Wealth raised its holdings in shares of T. Rowe Price Group by 10.6% in the first quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 13,054 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $1,199,000 after acquiring an additional 1,250 shares in the last quarter. Kingswood Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new position in T. Rowe Price Group during the 2nd quarter worth about $219,000. Callan Family Office LLC increased its position in T. Rowe Price Group by 99.2% during the 2nd quarter. Callan Family Office LLC now owns 5,076 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $490,000 after purchasing an additional 2,528 shares during the period. Finally, Aberdeen Group plc increased its position in T. Rowe Price Group by 10.7% during the 2nd quarter. Aberdeen Group plc now owns 201,893 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $19,356,000 after purchasing an additional 19,545 shares during the period. 73.39% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

T. Rowe Price Group News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting T. Rowe Price Group this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Argus upgraded TROW to a “hold”, providing some support to the stock amid analyst churn. Zacks/Argus Upgrade
• Positive Sentiment: Company highlighted AUM growth and year‑over‑year revenue increase (helping offset the EPS miss), which reassures investors about underlying asset trends. Earnings Highlights
• Neutral Sentiment: Full Q4 earnings transcript and call are available for detail review — useful for investors assessing fee margins, flows and forward guidance. Q4 Transcript
• Neutral Sentiment: Unusually high options trading noted in the ticker, signaling elevated short‑term speculation/hedging activity around the stock. Options Activity
• Negative Sentiment: Goldman Sachs cut its price target to $90 and maintained a “sell” rating, adding downward pressure by signaling weaker near‑term outlook. Goldman Sachs PT Cut
• Negative Sentiment: Deutsche Bank trimmed its target to $100 and kept a “hold”, contributing to consensus PT compression. Deutsche Bank PT Cut
• Negative Sentiment: Multiple other shops lowered targets or ratings (JPMorgan to $106/underweight; TD Cowen to $97/hold; Evercore to $106/in‑line; KBW to $110/market perform) — the broad analyst downdrift increases downside risk until flow trends and margins clarify. Analyst PT Moves (Benzinga)
• Negative Sentiment: Coverage notes emphasize net outflows and the EPS miss in Q4 as the primary near‑term catalysts for further downgrades if flows remain weak. Seeking Alpha: Outflows & EPS Miss

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on TROW shares. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods dropped their price objective on shares of T. Rowe Price Group from $115.00 to $110.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday. Bank of America increased their target price on T. Rowe Price Group from $85.00 to $86.00 in a research report on Wednesday, January 14th. TD Cowen reduced their price target on T. Rowe Price Group from $109.00 to $97.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday. The Goldman Sachs Group decreased their price objective on T. Rowe Price Group from $95.00 to $90.00 and set a “sell” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their price objective on T. Rowe Price Group from $108.00 to $106.00 and set an “underweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday. Twelve equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Hold rating and four have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Reduce” and a consensus target price of $103.50.

T. Rowe Price Group Stock Performance

Shares of TROW stock opened at $94.58 on Monday. T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $77.85 and a fifty-two week high of $118.22. The firm has a market capitalization of $20.64 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.22, a PEG ratio of 4.87 and a beta of 1.53. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $104.37 and its 200-day simple moving average is $104.42.

T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ:TROW) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, February 4th. The asset manager reported $2.44 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.47 by ($0.03). The company had revenue of $1.93 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.92 billion. T. Rowe Price Group had a return on equity of 20.36% and a net margin of 28.53%.The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 6.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $2.12 earnings per share. As a group, equities analysts forecast that T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. will post 9.29 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other T. Rowe Price Group news, VP Arif Husain sold 4,260 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $101.96, for a total transaction of $434,349.60. Following the sale, the vice president owned 47,102 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,802,519.92. The trade was a 8.29% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 2.00% of the company’s stock.

T. Rowe Price Group Company Profile

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc is a global investment management firm headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, founded by Thomas Rowe Price Jr. in 1937. The company provides a broad range of investment products and services for individual investors, financial intermediaries, retirement plan sponsors and institutional clients. Its offerings are built around active investment management and in-house research across equity, fixed income and multi-asset strategies, reflecting a long history as a research-driven asset manager.

The firm’s product lineup includes mutual funds, separate accounts, collective investment trusts, target-date and target-risk funds, and managed account solutions, as well as services for defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plans.