SEMIANNUAL REPORT
June 30, 2022
  T. ROWE PRICE
TGRW Growth Stock ETF
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HIGHLIGHTS
The Growth Stock ETF generated a negative absolute return in the six-month period ended June 30, 2022. The fund underperformed its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, and lagged the style-specific Russell 1000 Growth Index. The fund also trailed its peer group, the Lipper Large-Cap Growth Funds Index.
Markets suffered their worst first half in decades as inflation fears drove equities downward with a high degree of correlation, which is an unfavorable environment for us as stock pickers. Many of our high-conviction ideas found themselves down significantly at the midway point of the year as bearish sentiment and indiscriminate selling caused a disconnect, in some cases, between share prices and fundamentals.
The fund’s top sector allocations are in information technology, consumer discretionary, and communication services—areas that we believe offer the most fertile ground for innovation and growth.
Amid macroeconomic uncertainty, we take comfort knowing that we own high-quality businesses—some that should provide defense if markets continue to skid and others that have significant potential to outperform once inflation concerns are in the rear view.
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Market Commentary
Dear Shareholder
Major stock and bond indexes produced sharply negative results during the first half of 2022 as investors contended with persistently high inflation, tightening financial conditions, and slowing growth.
After reaching an all-time high on January 3, the S&P 500 Index finished the period down about 20%, the worst first half of a calendar year for the index since 1970. Double-digit losses were common in equity markets around the globe, and bond investors also faced a historically tough environment amid a sharp rise in interest rates.
Value shares outperformed growth stocks as equity investors turned risk averse and rising rates put downward pressure on growth stock valuations. Emerging markets stocks held up somewhat better than shares in developed markets due to the strong performance of some oil-exporting countries. Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar strengthened during the period, which weighed on returns for U.S. investors in international securities.
Within the S& P 500, energy was the only bright spot, gaining more than 30% as oil prices jumped in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing commodity supply crunch. Typically defensive shares, such as utilities, consumer staples, and health care, finished in negative territory but held up relatively well. The consumer discretionary, communication services, and information technology sectors were the weakest performers. Shares of some major retailers fell sharply following earnings misses driven in part by overstocked inventories.
Inflation remained the leading concern for investors throughout the period. Despite hopes in 2021 that the problem was transitory, and later expectations that inflation would peak in the spring, headline consumer prices continued to grind higher throughout the first half of 2022. The war in Ukraine exacerbated already existing supply chain problems, and other factors, such as the impact of the fiscal and monetary stimulus enacted during the pandemic and strong consumer demand, also pushed prices higher. The May consumer price index report (the last to be issued during our reporting period) showed prices increasing 8.6% over the 12-month period, the largest jump since late 1981.
In response, the Federal Reserve, which at the end of 2021 had forecast that only three 25-basis-point (0.25 percentage point) rate hikes would be necessary in all of 2022, rapidly shifted in a hawkish direction and executed three rate increases in the first six months of the year. The policy moves included hikes of 25, 50, and 75 basis points—the largest single increase since 1994—increasing the central
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bank’s short-term lending benchmark from near zero to a target range of 1.50% to 1.75% by the end of June. In addition, the Fed ended the purchases of Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities that it had begun to support the economy early in the pandemic and started reducing its balance sheet in June.
Longer-term bond yields also increased considerably as the Fed tightened monetary policy, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note reaching 3.49% on June 14, its highest level in more than a decade. (Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.) Higher mortgage rates led to signs of cooling in the housing market.
The economy continued to add jobs during the period, and other indicators pointed to a slowing but still expanding economy. However, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index dropped in June to its lowest level since records began in 1978 as higher inflation expectations undermined confidence.
Looking ahead, investors are likely to remain focused on whether the Fed can tame inflation without sending the economy into recession, a backdrop that could produce continued volatility. We believe this environment makes skilled active management a critical tool for identifying risks and opportunities, and our investment teams will continue to use fundamental research to identify companies that can add value to your portfolio over the long term.
Thank you for your continued confidence in T. Rowe Price.
Sincerely,
Robert Sharps
CEO and President
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Management’s Discussion of Fund Performance
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The fund seeks long-term capital growth.
FUND COMMENTARY
How did the fund perform in the past six months?
The Growth Stock ETF returned -35.28% (based on net asset value) and -35.26% (at market price) in the six-month period ended June 30, 2022. The fund underperformed its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, and lagged the style-specific Russell 1000 Growth Index. The fund also trailed its peer group, the Lipper Large-Cap Growth Funds Index. (Past performance cannot guarantee future results.)
What factors influenced the fund’s performance?
Markets suffered their worst first half in decades as inflation fears drove equities downward with a high degree of correlation, which is an unfavorable environment for us as stock pickers. Many of our high-conviction ideas found
PERFORMANCE COMPARISON
   
Six-Month Period Ended 6/30/22 Total Return
   
Growth Stock ETF (Based on Net Asset Value) -35.28%
Growth Stock ETF (At Market Price)* -35.26
S&P 500 Index -19.96
Russell 1000 Growth Index -28.07
Lipper Large-Cap Growth Funds Index -30.93
*Market returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at market close (typically, 4 p.m. ET) and do not represent returns an investor would have received if shares were traded at other times.
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themselves down significantly at the midway point of the year as bearish sentiment and indiscriminate selling caused a disconnect, in some cases, between share prices and fundamentals.
In the communication services sector, several of our ad-dependent media holdings suffered. Shares of Meta Platforms sold off sharply after management revealed that the impact from Apple’s iOS privacy changes was more severe than expected. While we have confidence in the company’s mitigation efforts, Meta’s advanced, hyperoptimized advertising solutions mean that the company faces a deeper reset than others as it designs workarounds to restore the signal loss. Shares of Sea traded lower in response to disappointing guidance around the gaming business, which has been impacted by the fading of pandemic tailwinds and India’s prohibition on the company’s most popular title due to Chinese investment. Shares of Snap Inc. plunged after management signaled a significant drop in advertising demand with macro headwinds putting downward pressure on advertiser budgets. Idiosyncratic headwinds plagued other holdings within the sector. (Please refer to our portfolio of investments for a complete list of holdings and the amount each represents in the portfolio.)
The consumer discretionary sector was also a source of weakness during the first half of the year. Several of our bets in the automobiles space did not work in our favor. Most notably, Rivian Automotive was punished for various items, including a small production target miss in 2021, an inflation-driven price increase, and lowered 2022 delivery guidance due to supply chain issues. Shares remained under pressure late in the period as some large private shareholders reduced their positions following the lockup expiration in May. Shares of Carvana traded lower amid a challenging backdrop that included affordability concerns for consumers and negative sentiment around a capital raise and cost-cutting measures. Elsewhere in the sector, Amazon.com, one of the portfolio’s largest holdings, was a significant detractor. Despite continued strength from the company’s cloud business, shares of Amazon.com traded lower as inflation headwinds to logistics and over-aggressive investments in capacity to meet pandemic-level demand weighed on near-term profitability.
Information technology names were a particular target of investors concerned about an accelerated pace of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, which lessen the value of future cash flows. Shares of Microsoft dropped amid a broader pullback in technology names due to the Fed’s aggressive playbook on interest rates. The stock also suffered after the company cut its fourth-quarter guidance due to the expected impact of a strong U.S. dollar. The company generates a significant share of its revenue from countries that have seen their currency depreciate against the dollar. Shares of Apple tumbled after consumer spending
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data showed a decline in the sale of its hardware products for the month of May. Investors also feared a potential slowdown in discretionary and luxury spending that would take place during a recessionary environment.
How is the fund positioned?
Information technology remains our largest sector allocation. We were net buyers in the sector during the period as we leaned into several compelling investment ideas. We purchased shares of Apple, closing our underweight position relative to the Russell 1000 Growth Index. We remain encouraged by the global popularity of Apple’s products and the company’s potential to innovate and maintain consistent sales growth. We took advantage of weakness to add semiconductor exposure, most notably NVIDIA, which traded lower as investors rotated into more defensive names and as the company faced supply chain headwinds compounded by the COVID-19 shutdown in Shanghai. We are
SECTOR DIVERSIFICATION
  Percent of Net Assets
  12/31/21 6/30/22
Information Technology 39.8% 44.5%
Consumer Discretionary 23.6 22.8
Communication Services 21.5 14.1
Health Care 8.2 12.1
Industrials and Business Services 4.2 5.0
Financials 1.2 0.2
Materials 0.0 0.0
Consumer Staples 0.0 0.0
Energy 0.0 0.0
Real Estate 0.0 0.0
Utilities 0.0 0.0
Other and Reserves 1.5 1.3
Total 100.0% 100.0%
Historical weightings reflect current industry/sector classifications.
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now equal weight on the name relative to the benchmark. We view NVIDIA as a high-quality company with increasing leverage to several up-and-coming secular growth markets, including artificial intelligence, supercomputing, and autonomous driving. Additionally, we retooled our software holdings, with purchases of Salesforce.com and Atlassian funded by sales of Zoom Video Communications and UiPath.
Consumer discretionary, the fund’s second-largest sector weighting, represented a substantial source of purchasing activity during the first half of the year. Much of our trading activity within the sector was focused on bolstering our exposure to electric vehicles through Rivian Automotive, which we bought on weakness. We believe that Rivian is well positioned to benefit from the automotive industry’s most powerful trend of electrification as it targets the largest, most profitable segments of this growing market (mid-size luxury and large luxury). Led by a very capable management team, we expect Rivian to benefit from strategic partnerships and business-to-business trends that should provide stability, as well as scale efficiencies for its business-to-consumer segment.
The third-largest sector weight is communication services, where we lean toward leaders in the secular shift to digital advertising, including Meta Platforms and Alphabet. We took down our exposure to these names in light of app-tracking transparency headwinds, which caused a signal loss for advertisers. We also sold shares of Netflix following the release of first-quarter earnings early in the period, which revealed that the streaming service’s global subscribership declined quarter over quarter for the first time in almost a decade. Management’s guidance of 2 million subscriber losses in the second quarter also contributed to the sell-off. Going forward, we will be closely monitoring the company’s trajectory of growth.
Elsewhere in the portfolio, our most notable transaction was our sizable purchase of UnitedHealth Group. The stock has held up relatively well due to a combination of several factors: better-than-anticipated cost trends as utilization began to normalize, stronger-than-expected onboarding of value-based care patients within the Optum business segment, and the managed care space’s defensive characteristics. We believe that UnitedHealth Group’s ability to provide steady growth is underappreciated by the market. We view the company as well positioned, thanks to its leadership in the fast-growing Medicare Advantage market. We view the company’s Optum business, which captures a larger share of health care spending by providing services like care delivery, analytics, and prescriptions in a cost-effective manner, as a potential long-term driver for UnitedHealth Group.
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What is portfolio management’s outlook?
In the near term, we are expecting a bumpy ride until the Federal Reserve gets inflation under control. With interest rates rising, continued earnings gains will be needed to support positive returns, but higher wages and input costs, along with softer demand in some end markets, could pressure margins for many companies in the coming months. If we do find ourselves in a short-lived recession because of aggressive Fed actions, that would not necessarily be a bad outcome over the long term since it would provide a soft reset and a better setup for many of our holdings with higher torque to subsequently outperform on the way up. In the meantime, we take comfort knowing that we own high-quality businesses—some that should provide defense if markets continue to skid and others that have significant potential to outperform once inflation concerns are in the rear view.
The views expressed reflect the opinions of T. Rowe Price as of the date of this report and are subject to change based on changes in market, economic, or other conditions. These views are not intended to be a forecast of future events and are no guarantee of future results.
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RISKS OF STOCK INVESTING
The fund’s share price can fall because of weakness in the stock markets, a particular industry, or specific holdings. Stock markets can decline for many reasons, including adverse political or economic developments, changes in investor psychology, or heavy institutional selling. The prospects for an industry or company may deteriorate because of a variety of factors, including disappointing earnings or changes in the competitive environment. In addition, the investment manager’s assessment of companies held in a fund may prove incorrect, resulting in losses or poor performance even in rising markets.
RISKS OF GROWTH INVESTING
Growth stocks can be volatile for several reasons. Since these companies usually invest a high portion of earnings in their businesses, they may lack the dividends of value stocks that can cushion stock prices in a falling market. Also, earnings disappointments often lead to sharply falling prices because investors buy growth stocks in anticipation of superior earnings growth.
BENCHMARK INFORMATION
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PORTFOLIO HIGHLIGHTS
TWENTY-FIVE LARGEST HOLDINGS
  Percent of
Net Assets
  6/30/22
Microsoft 12.7%
Amazon.com 10.1
Alphabet 9.2
Apple 8.6
UnitedHealth Group 3.7
Rivian Automotive 2.6
Visa 2.5
Intuit 2.2
Tesla 2.2
MasterCard 2.1
NVIDIA 2.1
ServiceNow 1.8
Salesforce.com 1.7
ASML Holding 1.7
Eli Lilly and Co. 1.6
Ross Stores 1.4
Intuitive Surgical 1.4
Advanced Micro Devices 1.2
Chipotle Mexican Grill 1.2
Teledyne Technologies 1.2
Fiserv 1.1
Stryker 1.0
Ferrari 1.0
FedEx 1.0
Meta Platforms 1.0
Total 76.3%
Note: The information shown does not reflect any exchange-traded funds (ETFs), cash reserves, or collateral for securities lending that may be held in the portfolio.
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GROWTH OF $10,000
This chart shows the value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment in the fund over the past 10 fiscal year periods or since inception (for funds lacking 10-year records). The result is compared with benchmarks, which include a broad-based market index and may also include a peer group average or index. Market indexes do not include expenses, which are deducted from fund returns as well as mutual fund averages and indexes.
Growth Stock ETF
Note: See the Average Annual Compound Total Return table.
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AVERAGE ANNUAL COMPOUND TOTAL RETURN
Periods Ended 6/30/22 One Year Since
Inception
8/4/20
Growth Stock ETF (Based on Net Asset Value) -33.23% -7.11%
Growth Stock ETF (At Market Price) -33.23 -7.07
The fund’s performance information represents only past performance and is not necessarily an indication of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. Share price, principal value, and return will vary, and you may have a gain or loss when you sell your shares. Market returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at market close (typically, 4 p.m. ET) and do not represent returns an investor would have received if shares were traded at other times. For the most recent month-end performance, please visit our website (troweprice.com).
This table shows how the fund would have performed each year if its actual (or cumulative) returns for the periods shown had been earned at a constant rate. Average annual total return figures include changes in principal value, reinvested dividends, and capital gain distributions. Returns do not reflect taxes that the shareholder may pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. When assessing performance, investors should consider both short- and long-term returns.
PREMIUM/DISCOUNT INFORMATION
The frequency at which the daily market prices were at a discount or premium to the fund’s net asset value is available on the fund’s website (troweprice.com).
EXPENSE RATIO
Growth Stock ETF 0.52%
The expense ratio shown is as of the fund’s most recent prospectus. This number may vary from the expense ratio shown elsewhere in this report because it is based on a different time period and, if applicable, includes acquired fund fees and expenses but does not include fee or expense waivers.
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FUND EXPENSE EXAMPLE
As a shareholder, you may incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, such as brokerage commissions on purchases and sales, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other fund expenses. The following example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other funds. The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the most recent six-month period and held for the entire period.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the following table (Actual) provides information about actual account values and expenses based on the fund’s actual returns. You may use the information on this line, together with your account balance, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number on the first line under the heading “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The information on the second line of the table (Hypothetical) is based on hypothetical account values and expenses derived from the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed 5% per year rate of return before expenses (not the fund’s actual return). You may compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund with other funds by contrasting this 5% hypothetical example and the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period.
You should also be aware that the expenses shown in the table highlight only your ongoing costs and do not reflect any transaction costs, such as brokerage commissions paid on purchases and sales of shares. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. To the extent a fund charges transaction costs, however, the total cost of owning that fund is higher.
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FUND EXPENSE EXAMPLE (continued)
Growth Stock ETF
  Beginning
Account Value
1/1/22
Ending
Account Value
6/30/22
Expenses Paid
During Period*
1/1/22 to 6/30/22
Actual $1,000.00 $647.20 $2.12
Hypothetical (assumes 5% return before expenses) 1,000.00 1,022.22 2.61
    
* Expenses are equal to the fund’s annualized expense ratio for the 6-month period (0.52%), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by the number of days in the most recent fiscal half year (181), and divided by the days in the year (365) to reflect the half-year period.
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Unaudited
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
For a share outstanding throughout each period

  6 Months
Ended
Year
Ended
8/4/20(1)
Through
  6/30/22 12/31/21 12/31/20
NET ASSET VALUE      
Beginning of period $ 33.39 $ 29.17 $ 25.00
Investment activities      
Net investment loss(2) (3) (0.02) (0.06) (0.01)
Net realized and unrealized gain/loss (11.76) 4.41 4.21
Total from investment activities (11.78) 4.35 4.20
Distributions      
Net realized gain - (0.13) (0.03)
NET ASSET VALUE      
End of period $ 21.61 $ 33.39 $ 29.17
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Total return, based on NAV(3) (4) (35.28)% 14.94% 16.81%
Ratios to average net
assets:(3)
     
Gross expenses before
waivers/payments by
Price Associates
0.52%(5) 0.52% 0.52%(5)
Net expenses after
waivers/payments by
Price Associates
0.52%(5) 0.52% 0.52%(5)
Net investment loss (0.16)%(5) (0.20)% (0.09)%(5)
Portfolio turnover rate(6) 22.0% 37.9% 15.8%
Net assets, end of period
(in thousands)
$ 36,958 $ 50,256 $ 26,547
    
(1) Inception date 
(2) Per share amounts calculated using average shares outstanding method. 
(3) See Note 5 for details to expense-related arrangements with Price Associates. 
(4) Total return reflects the rate that an investor would have earned on an investment in the fund during each period, assuming reinvestment of all distributions. Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year. 
(5) Annualized 
(6) Portfolio turnover excludes securities received or delivered through in-kind share transactions. 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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June 30, 2022 Unaudited
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
COMMON STOCKS 98.7%
COMMUNICATION SERVICES 14.1%
Entertainment 2.8%    
Activision Blizzard 2,707 211
Netflix (1) 1,271 222
ROBLOX, Class A (1) 523 17
Sea, ADR (1) 5,197 348
Spotify Technology (1) 2,390 224
    1,022
Interactive Media & Services 11.3%    
Alphabet, Class A (1) 790 1,722
Alphabet, Class C (1) 765 1,673
Match Group (1) 3,141 219
Meta Platforms, Class A (1) 2,211 357
Snap, Class A (1) 17,478 229
    4,200
Total Communication Services   5,222
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY 22.6%
Automobiles 5.8%    
Ferrari NV 2,009 368
Rivian Automotive, Class A (1) 37,528 966
Tesla (1) 1,213 817
    2,151
Hotels Restaurants & Leisure 3.5%    
Airbnb, Class A (1) 121 11
Booking Holdings (1) 138 241
Chipotle Mexican Grill (1) 331 433
Expedia Group (1) 2,213 210
Las Vegas Sands (1) 6,142 206
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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
Wynn Resorts (1) 3,527 201
    1,302
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail 11.0%    
Amazon.com (1) 35,301 3,749
Coupang, Class A (1) 9,326 119
DoorDash, Class A (1) 2,922 188
    4,056
Leisure Products 0.2%    
Peloton Interactive, Class A (1) 8,164 75
    75
Specialty Retail 1.5%    
Carvana (1) 1,386 31
Ross Stores 7,599 534
    565
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods 0.6%    
Lululemon Athletica (1) 756 206
    206
Total Consumer Discretionary   8,355
FINANCIALS 0.2%
Capital Markets 0.2%    
MarketAxess Holdings 254 65
Tradeweb Markets, Class A 151 10
Total Financials   75
HEALTH CARE 12.1%
Biotechnology 0.6%    
Argenx SE, ADR (1) 611 232
    232
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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
Health Care Equipment & Supplies 3.2%    
Align Technology (1) 759 180
Insulet (1) 452 98
Intuitive Surgical (1) 2,541 510
Stryker 1,901 378
    1,166
Health Care Providers & Services 5.8%    
Cigna 1,067 281
HCA Healthcare 887 149
Humana 717 335
UnitedHealth Group 2,651 1,362
    2,127
Life Sciences Tools & Services 0.6%    
Avantor (1) 6,809 212
    212
Pharmaceuticals 1.9%    
AstraZeneca, ADR 1,987 131
Eli Lilly 1,806 586
    717
Total Health Care   4,454
INDUSTRIALS & BUSINESS SERVICES 4.5%
Aerospace & Defense 0.8%    
Boeing (1) 2,057 281
    281
Air Freight & Logistics 1.0%    
FedEx 1,607 364
    364
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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
Commercial Services & Supplies 0.3%    
Cintas 319 119
    119
Electrical Equipment 0.6%    
Generac Holdings (1) 1,106 233
    233
Industrial Conglomerates 0.9%    
Roper Technologies 855 338
    338
Professional Services 0.9%    
TransUnion 3,023 242
Verisk Analytics 550 95
    337
Total Industrials & Business Services   1,672
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 44.5%
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components 1.1%    
Teledyne Technologies (1) 1,135 426
    426
IT Services 7.9%    
Block, Class A (1) 3,101 191
Fiserv (1) 4,773 425
Global Payments 1,866 206
Mastercard, Class A 2,513 793
MongoDB (1) 757 196
PayPal Holdings (1) 128 9
Snowflake (1) 1,083 151
Toast, Class A (1) 217 3
Twilio, Class A (1) 626 52
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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
Visa, Class A 4,618 909
    2,935
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 5.0%    
Advanced Micro Devices (1) 5,752 439
ASML Holding NV 1,333 634
NVIDIA 5,068 768
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, ADR 157 13
    1,854
Software 21.9%    
Atlassian, Class A (1) 1,209 227
Bill.Com Holdings (1) 815 90
Black Knight (1) 4,887 319
Ceridian HCM Holding (1) 1,928 91
Datadog, Class A (1) 1,523 145
HashiCorp, Class A (1) 418 12
Intuit 2,158 832
Microsoft 18,304 4,701
Monday.com (1) 421 43
Salesforce.com (1) 3,917 646
SentinelOne, Class A (1) 5,814 136
ServiceNow (1) 1,363 648
Trade Desk, Class A (1) 3,675 154
UiPath, Class A (1) 764 14
Workday (1) 55 8
Zoom Video Communications, Class A (1) 139 15
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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals 8.6%    
Apple 23,127 3,162
    3,162
Total Information Technology   16,458
Total Miscellaneous Common Stocks 0.7% (2)   244
Total Common Stocks (Cost $44,245)   36,480
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS 1.3%
Money Market Funds 1.3%    
State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, 1.43% (3) 475,603 476
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $476)   476
Total Investments in Securities
100.0% of Net Assets (Cost $44,721)
  $36,956
    
Shares are denominated in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.
(1) Non-income producing.
(2) The identity of certain securities has been concealed to protect the fund while it completes a purchase or selling program for the securities.
(3) Seven-day yield
ADR American Depositary Receipts
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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June 30, 2022 Unaudited
    STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES    

($000s, except shares and per share amounts)
Assets  
Investments in securities, at value (cost $44,721) $36,956
Receivable for investment securities sold 49 
Interest and dividends receivable 6 
Total assets 37,011 
Liabilities  
Payable for investment securities purchased 37 
Investment management and administrative fees payable 16 
Total liabilities 53 
NET ASSETS $36,958
Net assets consists of:  
Total distributable earnings (loss) $(10,677)
Paid-in capital applicable to 1,710,000 shares of $0.0001 par value
capital stock outstanding; 4,000,000,000 shares authorized
47,635 
NET ASSETS $36,958
NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE $21.61
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Unaudited
    STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS    

($000s)
  6 Months
Ended
6/30/22
Investment Income (Loss)  
Dividend income (net of foreign taxes of $1) $77
Investment management and administrative expense 110 
Net investment loss (33)
Realized and Unrealized Gain / Loss  
Net realized gain (loss)  
Securities (3,053)
In-kind redemptions 620 
Net realized loss (2,433)
Change in net unrealized gain / loss on securities (16,273)
Net realized and unrealized gain / loss (18,706)
DECREASE IN NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS $(18,739)
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Unaudited
    STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS    

($000s)
  6 Months
Ended
6/30/22
  Year
Ended
12/31/21
Increase (decrease) in Net Assets      
Operations      
Net investment loss $(33)   $(78)
Net realized loss (2,433)   (274)
Change in net unrealized gain / loss (16,273)   5,399 
Increase (decrease) in net assets from operations (18,739)   5,047 
Distributions to shareholders      
Net earnings —    (195)
Capital share transactions*      
Shares sold 10,646    18,857 
Shares redeemed (5,205)   — 
Increase in net assets from capital share transactions 5,441    18,857 
Net Assets      
Increase (decrease) during period (13,298)   23,709 
Beginning of period 50,256    26,547 
End of period $36,958   $50,256
*Share information      
Shares sold 415    595 
Shares redeemed (210)   — 
Increase in shares outstanding 205    595 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Unaudited
    NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS    

T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc. (the corporation) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act). The Growth Stock ETF (the fund) is a non-diversified, open-end management investment company established by the corporation. The fund seeks to provide long-term capital growth.
The fund is considered an actively-managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that does not disclose its portfolio holdings daily, which is different from a traditional ETF and may create additional risks. In order to provide market participants with information on the fund’s investments, the fund publishes a “Proxy Portfolio” on its website daily. A Proxy Portfolio is a basket of securities that is designed to closely track the daily performance of the fund’s portfolio holdings. While the Proxy Portfolio includes some of the fund’s holdings, it is not the fund’s actual portfolio. The fund does disclose its full portfolio holdings on a quarterly basis, similar to mutual funds.
NOTE  1  –   SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of Preparation
The fund is an investment company and follows accounting and reporting guidance in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 (ASC 946). The accompanying financial statements were prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), including, but not limited to, ASC 946. GAAP requires the use of estimates made by management. Management believes that estimates and valuations are appropriate; however, actual results may differ from those estimates, and the valuations reflected in the accompanying financial statements may differ from the value ultimately realized upon sale or maturity.
Investment Transactions, Investment Income, and Distributions
Investment transactions are accounted for on the trade date basis. Income and expenses are recorded on the accrual basis. Realized gains and losses are reported on the identified cost basis. Income tax-related interest and penalties, if incurred, are recorded as income tax expense. Dividends received from other investment companies are reflected as dividend income; capital gain distributions are reflected as realized gain/loss. Dividend income and capital gain distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the asset received. Distributions to shareholders are
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recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income distributions, if any, are declared and paid annually. A capital gain distribution may also be declared and paid by the fund annually. Dividends and distributions cannot be automatically reinvested in additional shares of the fund.
Capital Share Transactions
The fund issues and redeems shares at its net asset value (NAV) only with Authorized Participants and only in large blocks of 5,000 shares (each, a “Creation Unit”). The fund’s NAV per share is computed at the close of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). However, the NAV per share may be calculated at a time other than the normal close of the NYSE if trading on the NYSE is restricted, if the NYSE closes earlier, or as may be permitted by the SEC. Individual fund shares may not be purchased or redeemed directly with the fund. An Authorized Participant may purchase or redeem a Creation Unit of the fund each business day that the fund is open in exchange for the delivery of a designated portfolio of in-kind securities and/or cash. When purchasing or redeeming Creation Units, Authorized Participants are also required to pay a fixed and/or variable purchase or redemption transaction fee as well as any applicable additional variable charge to defray the transaction cost to a fund.
Individual fund shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. (NYSE Arca) and because the shares will trade at market prices rather than NAV, shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount). The fund’s shares are ordinarily valued as of the close of regular trading (normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) on each day that the NYSE Arca is open.
Indemnification
In the normal course of business, the fund may provide indemnification in connection with its officers and directors, service providers, and/or private company investments. The fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown; however, the risk of material loss is currently considered to be remote.
NOTE  2  –   VALUATION
Security Valuation
The fund’s financial instruments are valued at the close of the NYSE and are reported at fair value, which GAAP defines as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The T. Rowe Price Valuation Committee (the Valuation Committee) is an internal committee that has been delegated certain responsibilities by the fund’s Board
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of Directors (the Board) to ensure that financial instruments are appropriately priced at fair value in accordance with GAAP and the 1940 Act. Subject to oversight by the Board, the Valuation Committee develops and oversees pricing-related policies and procedures and approves all fair value determinations. Specifically, the Valuation Committee establishes policies and procedures used in valuing financial instruments, including those which cannot be valued in accordance with normal procedures or using pricing vendors; determines pricing techniques, sources, and persons eligible to effect fair value pricing actions; evaluates the services and performance of the pricing vendors; oversees the pricing process to ensure policies and procedures are being followed; and provides guidance on internal controls and valuation-related matters. The Valuation Committee provides periodic reporting to the Board on valuation matters.
Various valuation techniques and inputs are used to determine the fair value of financial instruments. GAAP establishes the following fair value hierarchy that categorizes the inputs used to measure fair value:
Level 1  –  quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical financial instruments that the fund can access at the reporting date
Level 2  –  inputs other than Level 1 quoted prices that are observable, either directly or indirectly (including, but not limited to, quoted prices for similar financial instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar financial instruments in inactive markets, interest rates and yield curves, implied volatilities, and credit spreads)
Level 3  –  unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions in determining fair value)
Observable inputs are developed using market data, such as publicly available information about actual events or transactions, and reflect the assumptions that market participants would use to price the financial instrument. Unobservable inputs are those for which market data are not available and are developed using the best information available about the assumptions that market participants would use to price the financial instrument. GAAP requires valuation techniques to maximize the use of relevant observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. When multiple inputs are used to derive fair value, the financial instrument is assigned to the level within the fair value hierarchy based on the lowest-level input that is significant to the fair value of the financial instrument. Input levels are not necessarily an indication of the risk or liquidity associated with financial instruments at that level but rather the degree of judgment used in determining those values.
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Valuation Techniques
Equity securities, including exchange-traded funds, listed or regularly traded on a securities exchange or in the over-the-counter (OTC) market are valued at the last quoted sale price or, for certain markets, the official closing price at the time the valuations are made. A security that is listed or traded on more than one exchange is valued at the quotation on the exchange determined to be the primary market for such security. Listed securities not traded on a particular day are valued at the mean of the closing bid and asked prices for domestic securities and the last quoted sale or closing price for international securities.
Investments in mutual funds are valued at the mutual fund’s closing NAV per share on the day of valuation. Assets and liabilities other than financial instruments, including short-term receivables and payables, are carried at cost, or estimated realizable value, if less, which approximates fair value.
Investments for which market quotations or market-based valuations are not readily available or deemed unreliable are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the Valuation Committee, in accordance with fair valuation policies and procedures. The objective of any fair value pricing determination is to arrive at a price that could reasonably be expected from a current sale. Financial instruments fair valued by the Valuation Committee are primarily private placements, restricted securities, warrants, rights, and other securities that are not publicly traded. Factors used in determining fair value vary by type of investment and may include market or investment specific considerations. The Valuation Committee typically will afford greatest weight to actual prices in arm’s length transactions, to the extent they represent orderly transactions between market participants, transaction information can be reliably obtained, and prices are deemed representative of fair value. However, the Valuation Committee may also consider other valuation methods such as market-based valuation multiples; a discount or premium from market value of a similar, freely traded security of the same issuer; discounted cash flows; yield to maturity; or some combination. Fair value determinations are reviewed on a regular basis and updated as information becomes available, including actual purchase and sale transactions of the investment. Because any fair value determination involves a significant amount of judgment, there is a degree of subjectivity inherent in such pricing decisions, and fair value prices determined by the Valuation Committee could differ from those of other market participants.
Valuation Inputs
On June 30, 2022, all of the fund’s financial instruments were classified as Level 1, based on the inputs used to determine their fair values.
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NOTE  3  –   OTHER INVESTMENT TRANSACTIONS
Purchases and sales of portfolio securities excluding in-kind transactions and short-term securities aggregated $9,776,000 and $9,458,000, respectively, for the six months ended June 30, 2022. Portfolio securities received or delivered through in-kind transactions aggregated $10,494,000 and $5,122,000, respectively, for the six months ended June 30, 2022.
NOTE  4  –   FEDERAL INCOME TAXES
No provision for federal income taxes is required since the fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and distribute to shareholders all of its taxable income and gains. Distributions determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations may differ in amount or character from net investment income and realized gains for financial reporting purposes. Financial reporting records are adjusted for permanent book/tax differences to reflect tax character but are not adjusted for temporary differences. The amount and character of tax-basis distributions and composition of net assets are finalized at fiscal year-end; accordingly, tax-basis balances have not been determined as of the date of this report.
The fund intends to retain realized gains to the extent of available capital loss carryforwards. Net realized capital losses may be carried forward indefinitely to offset future realized capital gains. As of December 31, 2021, the fund had $350,000 of available capital loss carryforwards.
At June 30, 2022, the cost of investments for federal income tax purposes was $44,977,000. Net unrealized loss aggregated $8,021,000 at period-end, of which $863,000 related to appreciated investments and $8,884,000 related to depreciated investments.
NOTE  5  –   RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
The fund is managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (Price Associates), a wholly owned subsidiary of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (Price Group). The investment management and administrative agreement between the fund and Price Associates provides for an all-inclusive annual fee equal to 0.52% of the fund’s average daily net assets. The fee is computed daily and paid monthly. The all-inclusive fee covers investment management services and ordinary, recurring operating expenses, but does not cover interest and borrowing expenses; taxes; brokerage commissions and other transaction costs; fund proxy expenses; and nonrecurring expenses.
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As of June 30, 2022, T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., or its wholly owned subsidiaries, owned 600,000 shares of the fund, representing 35% of the fund’s net assets.
The fund may participate in securities purchase and sale transactions with other funds or accounts advised by Price Associates (cross trades), in accordance with procedures adopted by the fund’s Board and Securities and Exchange Commission rules, which require, among other things, that such purchase and sale cross trades be effected at the independent current market price of the security. During the six months ended June 30, 2022, fund had no purchases or sales cross trades with other funds or accounts advised by Price Associates.
Price Associates has voluntarily agreed to reimburse the fund from its own resources on a monthly basis for the cost of investment research embedded in the cost of the fund’s securities trades. This agreement may be rescinded at any time. For the six months ended June 30, 2022, this reimbursement amounted to less than $1,000.
NOTE  6  –   OTHER MATTERS
Unpredictable events such as environmental or natural disasters, war, terrorism, pandemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and similar public health threats may significantly affect the economy and the markets and issuers in which a fund invests. Certain events may cause instability across global markets, including reduced liquidity and disruptions in trading markets, while some events may affect certain geographic regions, countries, sectors, and industries more significantly than others, and exacerbate other pre-existing political, social, and economic risks. Since 2020, a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) has resulted in disruptions to global business activity and caused significant volatility and declines in global financial markets. In February 2022, Russian forces entered Ukraine and commenced an armed conflict leading to economic sanctions being imposed on Russia and certain of its citizens, creating impacts on Russian-related stocks and debt and greater volatility in global markets. These are recent examples of global events which may have an impact on the fund’s performance, which could be negatively impacted if the value of a portfolio holding were harmed by these and such other events. Management is actively monitoring the risks and financial impacts arising from these events.
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INFORMATION ON PROXY VOTING POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND RECORDS
A description of the policies and procedures used by T. Rowe Price funds and portfolios to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities is available in each fund’s Statement of Additional Information. You may request this document by calling 1-800-638-5660 or by accessing the SEC’s website, sec.gov.
The description of our proxy voting policies and procedures is also available on our corporate website. To access it, please visit the following Web page:
https://www.troweprice.com/corporate/en/utility/policies.html
Scroll down to the section near the bottom of the page that says, “Proxy Voting Policies.” Click on the Proxy Voting Policies link in the shaded box.
Each fund’s most recent annual proxy voting record is available on our website and through the SEC’s website. To access it through T. Rowe Price, visit the website location shown above, and scroll down to the section near the bottom of the page that says, “Proxy Voting Records.” Click on the Proxy Voting Records link in the shaded box.
HOW TO OBTAIN QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT is available electronically on the SEC’s website (sec.gov).
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APPROVAL OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
Each year, the fund’s Board of Directors (Board) considers the continuation of the investment management agreement (Advisory Contract) between the fund and its investment adviser, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (Adviser). In that regard, at a meeting held on March 7–8, 2022 (Meeting), the Board, including all of the fund’s independent directors, approved the continuation of the fund’s Advisory Contract. At the Meeting, the Board considered the factors and reached the conclusions described below relating to the selection of the Adviser and the approval of the Advisory Contract. The independent directors were assisted in their evaluation of the Advisory Contract by independent legal counsel from whom they received separate legal advice and with whom they met separately.
In providing information to the Board, the Adviser was guided by a detailed set of requests for information submitted by independent legal counsel on behalf of the independent directors. In considering and approving the Advisory Contract, the Board considered the information it believed was relevant, including, but not limited to, the information discussed below. The Board considered not only the specific information presented in connection with the Meeting but also the knowledge gained over time through interaction with the Adviser about various topics. The Board meets regularly and, at each of its meetings, covers an extensive agenda of topics and materials and considers factors that are relevant to its annual consideration of the renewal of the T. Rowe Price funds’ advisory contracts, including performance and the services and support provided to the funds and their shareholders.
Services Provided by the Adviser
The Board considered the nature, quality, and extent of the services provided to the fund by the Adviser. These services included, but were not limited to, directing the fund’s investments in accordance with its investment program and the overall management of the fund’s portfolio, as well as a variety of related activities such as financial, investment operations, and administrative services; compliance; maintaining the fund’s records and registrations; and shareholder communications. The Board also reviewed the background and experience of the Adviser’s senior management team and investment personnel involved in the management of the fund, as well as the Adviser’s compliance record. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, quality, and extent of the services provided by the Adviser.
Investment Performance of the Fund
The Board took into account discussions with the Adviser and reports that it receives throughout the year relating to fund performance. In connection with the Meeting, the Board reviewed the fund’s total returns for various periods through December 31, 2021, and compared these returns with the performance of a peer group of funds with similar
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APPROVAL OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (continued)
investment programs and a wide variety of other previously agreed-upon comparable performance measures and market data, including relative performance information as of September 30, 2021, supplied by Broadridge, which is an independent provider of mutual fund data.
On the basis of this evaluation and the Board’s ongoing review of investment results, and factoring in the relative market conditions during certain of the performance periods, the Board concluded that the fund’s performance was satisfactory.
Costs, Benefits, Profits, and Economies of Scale
The Board reviewed detailed information regarding the revenues received by the Adviser under the Advisory Contract and other direct and indirect benefits that the Adviser (and its affiliates) may have realized from its relationship with the fund. In considering soft-dollar arrangements pursuant to which research may be received from broker-dealers that execute the fund’s portfolio transactions, the Board noted that the Adviser bears the cost of research services for all client accounts that it advises, including the T. Rowe Price funds. The Board received information on the estimated costs incurred and profits realized by the Adviser from managing the T. Rowe Price mutual funds and ETFs. While the Board did not review information regarding profits realized from managing the fund in particular because the fund had either not achieved sufficient portfolio asset size or not recognized sufficient revenues to produce meaningful profit margin percentages, the Board concluded that the Adviser’s profits were reasonable in light of the services provided to the T. Rowe Price mutual funds and ETFs.
The Board also considered whether the fund benefits under the fee levels set forth in the Advisory Contract or otherwise from any economies of scale realized by the Adviser. Under the Advisory Contract, the fund pays the Adviser an all-inclusive management fee based on the fund’s average daily net assets. The all-inclusive management fee includes investment management services and provides for the Adviser to pay all of the fund’s ordinary, recurring operating expenses except for interest and borrowing expenses, taxes, brokerage commissions and other transaction costs, fund proxy expenses, and any nonrecurring extraordinary expenses that may arise. The Adviser has generally implemented an all-inclusive management fee structure in situations where a fixed total expense ratio is useful for purposes of providing certainty of fees and expenses for investors and such a fee structure is typically used by other ETFs offered by competitors. The Adviser has historically sought to set the initial all-inclusive management fee rate at levels below the expense ratios of comparable funds to take into account potential future economies of scale. In addition, the assets of the fund are included in the calculation of the group fee rate, which serves as a component of the management fee for many T. Rowe Price funds and declines at certain asset levels based on the combined average net assets of most of the T. Rowe Price funds. Although the fund does not have a group fee component to its management fee, its assets
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APPROVAL OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (continued)
are included in the calculation because certain resources utilized to operate the fund are shared with other T. Rowe Price funds. The Board concluded that the advisory fee structure for the fund continued to be appropriate.
Fees and Expenses
The Board was provided with information regarding industry trends in management fees and expenses. Among other things, the Board reviewed data for peer groups that were compiled by Broadridge, which compared: (i) actual management fees, nonmanagement expenses, and total expenses of the fund with a group of competitor funds selected by Broadridge (Expense Group) and (ii) actual management fees, nonmanagement expenses, and total expenses of the fund with a broader set of funds within the Lipper investment classification (Expense Universe). The Board considered the fund’s actual management fee rate and total expenses in comparison with the information for the Broadridge peer groups. Broadridge generally constructed the peer groups by seeking the most comparable funds based on similar investment classifications and objectives, expense structure, asset size, and operating components and attributes and ranked funds into quintiles, with the first quintile representing the funds with the lowest relative expenses and the fifth quintile representing the funds with the highest relative expenses. The information provided to the Board indicated that the fund’s actual management fee rate ranked in the first quintile (Expense Group and Expense Universe) and the fund’s total expenses ranked in the first quintile (Expense Group and Expense Universe).
The Board also reviewed the fee schedules for other investment portfolios with similar mandates that are advised or subadvised by the Adviser and its affiliates, including separately managed accounts for institutional and individual investors; subadvised funds; and other sponsored investment portfolios, including collective investment trusts and pooled vehicles organized and offered to investors outside the United States. Management provided the Board with information about the Adviser’s responsibilities and services provided to subadvisory and other institutional account clients, including information about how the requirements and economics of the institutional business are fundamentally different from those of the proprietary mutual fund business. The Board considered information showing that the Adviser’s mutual fund business is generally more complex from a business and compliance perspective than its institutional account business and considered various relevant factors, such as the broader scope of operations and oversight, more extensive shareholder communication infrastructure, greater asset flows, heightened business risks, and differences in applicable laws and regulations associated with the Adviser’s proprietary mutual fund business. In assessing the reasonableness of the fund’s management fee rate, the Board considered the differences in the nature of the services required for the Adviser to manage its mutual fund business versus managing a discrete pool of assets as a subadviser to another institution’s mutual fund or for an institutional account and that the Adviser generally performs significant additional services and assumes greater risk in managing the fund and other T. Rowe Price funds than it does for institutional account clients, including subadvised funds.
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APPROVAL OF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (continued)
On the basis of the information provided and the factors considered, the Board concluded that the fees paid by the fund under the Advisory Contract are reasonable.
Approval of the Advisory Contract
As noted, the Board approved the continuation of the Advisory Contract. No single factor was considered in isolation or to be determinative to the decision. Rather, the Board concluded, in light of a weighting and balancing of all factors considered, that it was in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders for the Board to approve the continuation of the Advisory Contract (including the fees to be charged for services thereunder).
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