T. Rowe Price Group (TROW): Today's Featured Financial Services Laggard

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T. Rowe Price Group (TROW) pushed the Financial Services industry lower today making it today's featured Financial Services laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, T. Rowe Price Group fell 75 cents (-1.1%) to $64.95 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.3 million shares of T. Rowe Price Group exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.1 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $64.54-$65.44 after having opened the day at $65.29 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $65.70. Other companies within the Financial Services industry that declined today were: China Ceramics (CCCL), down 10.4%, SGOCO Group (SGOC), down 9.3%, CIFC (DFR), down 7%, and First Marblehead Corporation (FMD), down 6.6%.

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T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. The firm primarily provides its services to individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. T. Rowe Price Group has a market cap of $16.54 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.3, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 15.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate T. Rowe Price Group a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates T. Rowe Price Group as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.

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On the positive front, Knight Capital Group (KCG), up 13.3%, Artio Global Investors (ART), up 8.9%, Security National Financial Corporation (SNFCA), up 6.7%, and Ampal-American Israel Corporation (AMPL), up 6.1%, were all gainers within the financial services industry with CME Group (CME) being today's featured financial services industry leader.

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