T. Rowe Price lifts your dividend

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T. ROWE PRICE GROUP INC. $112 is a buy. The asset manager (Nasdaq symbol TROW; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 224.3 million; Market cap: $25.1 billion; Dividend yield: 4.4%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.troweprice.com) provides financial advice and products to individuals and institutions worldwide. The company will now raise your quarterly dividend by 1.7%. Starting with the March 2023 payment, investors will receive $1.22 a share instead of $1.20. The annual rate of $4.88 yields a high 4.4%. As a result of lower stock values, assets under management fell 24.5%, to $1.27 trillion at the end of 2022 from $1.69 trillion a year earlier. As a result, revenue in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022, fell 22.3%, to $1.52 billion from $1.96 billion a year earlier. Per-share earnings declined 45.1%, to $1.74 from $3.17. The stock has moved up 3% since the start of 2023 as stock markets rebound. It now trades at a reasonable 16.4 times the company’s projected 2023 earnings…