T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH ETF
March 31, 2024 Unaudited
PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS‡ | Shares | $ Value |
(Cost and value in $000s) | ||
COMMON STOCKS 97.6% | ||
COMMUNICATION SERVICES 15.2% | ||
Entertainment 1.8% | ||
Netflix (1) | 14,956 | 9,083 |
Sea, ADR (1) | 22,479 | 1,208 |
10,291 | ||
Interactive Media & Services 12.5% | ||
Alphabet, Class A (1) | 50,487 | 7,620 |
Alphabet, Class C (1) | 225,554 | 34,343 |
Meta Platforms, Class A (1) | 55,737 | 27,065 |
69,028 | ||
Wireless Telecommunication Services 0.9% | ||
T-Mobile US | 30,942 | 5,050 |
5,050 | ||
Total Communication Services | 84,369 | |
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY 14.1% | ||
Automobiles 1.5% | ||
Tesla (1) | 46,830 | 8,232 |
8,232 | ||
Broadline Retail 8.4% | ||
Amazon.com (1) | 260,204 | 46,936 |
46,936 | ||
Hotels Restaurants & Leisure 2.2% | ||
Booking Holdings (1) | 1,143 | 4,146 |
Chipotle Mexican Grill (1) | 2,137 | 6,212 |
DoorDash, Class A (1) | 12,605 | 1,736 |
12,094 | ||
Specialty Retail 1.5% | ||
Carvana (1) | 28,946 | 2,544 |
Ross Stores | 22,642 | 3,323 |
TJX | 23,671 | 2,401 |
8,268 | ||
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods 0.5% | ||
Lululemon Athletica (1) | 4,334 | 1,693 |
NIKE, Class B | 11,933 | 1,122 |
2,815 | ||
Total Consumer Discretionary | 78,345 |
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(Cost and value in $000s) | ||
CONSUMER STAPLES 1.3% | ||
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail 0.6% | ||
Dollar General | 22,110 | 3,450 |
3,450 | ||
Food Products 0.3% | ||
Mondelez International, Class A | 18,351 | 1,285 |
1,285 | ||
Household Products 0.4% | ||
Colgate-Palmolive | 13,018 | 1,172 |
Procter & Gamble | 6,978 | 1,132 |
2,304 | ||
Total Consumer Staples | 7,039 | |
ENERGY 0.3% | ||
Energy Equipment & Services 0.3% | ||
Schlumberger | 33,411 | 1,831 |
Total Energy | 1,831 | |
FINANCIALS 9.1% | ||
Capital Markets 1.6% | ||
Charles Schwab | 26,508 | 1,918 |
Goldman Sachs Group | 3,379 | 1,411 |
Morgan Stanley | 24,803 | 2,335 |
MSCI | 861 | 483 |
S&P Global | 6,005 | 2,555 |
8,702 | ||
Financial Services 5.9% | ||
Fiserv (1) | 8,184 | 1,308 |
Mastercard, Class A | 30,009 | 14,452 |
Visa, Class A | 60,339 | 16,839 |
32,599 | ||
Insurance 1.6% | ||
Chubb | 21,763 | 5,639 |
Marsh & McLennan | 15,923 | 3,280 |
8,919 | ||
Total Financials | 50,220 | |
HEALTH CARE 11.9% | ||
Health Care Equipment & Supplies 2.3% | ||
Align Technology (1) | 1,289 | 423 |
Intuitive Surgical (1) | 21,499 | 8,580 |
Stryker | 9,167 | 3,280 |
Teleflex | 2,641 | 597 |
12,880 |
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(Cost and value in $000s) | ||
Health Care Providers & Services 3.5% | ||
Elevance Health | 4,140 | 2,147 |
Humana | 6,311 | 2,188 |
UnitedHealth Group | 30,123 | 14,902 |
19,237 | ||
Health Care Technology 0.2% | ||
Veeva Systems, Class A (1) | 5,467 | 1,267 |
1,267 | ||
Life Sciences Tools & Services 1.8% | ||
Danaher | 12,843 | 3,207 |
Thermo Fisher Scientific | 11,083 | 6,442 |
9,649 | ||
Pharmaceuticals 4.1% | ||
AstraZeneca, ADR | 16,348 | 1,107 |
Eli Lilly | 24,817 | 19,307 |
Zoetis | 14,663 | 2,481 |
22,895 | ||
Total Health Care | 65,928 | |
INDUSTRIALS & BUSINESS SERVICES 2.2% | ||
Aerospace & Defense 0.2% | ||
TransDigm Group | 1,122 | 1,382 |
1,382 | ||
Commercial Services & Supplies 0.3% | ||
Cintas | 1,824 | 1,253 |
Veralto | 4,141 | 367 |
1,620 | ||
Ground Transportation 0.4% | ||
Old Dominion Freight Line | 8,882 | 1,948 |
1,948 | ||
Industrial Conglomerates 1.3% | ||
General Electric | 19,862 | 3,487 |
Roper Technologies | 6,601 | 3,702 |
7,189 | ||
Total Industrials & Business Services | 12,139 | |
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 41.8% | ||
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components 0.3% | ||
TE Connectivity | 11,016 | 1,600 |
1,600 | ||
IT Services 1.2% | ||
MongoDB (1) | 6,705 | 2,405 |
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(Cost and value in $000s) | ||
Shopify, Class A (1) | 40,681 | 3,139 |
Snowflake (1) | 5,686 | 919 |
6,463 | ||
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 13.2% | ||
Advanced Micro Devices (1) | 22,884 | 4,130 |
ASML Holding NV | 7,267 | 7,052 |
Lam Research | 917 | 891 |
Monolithic Power Systems | 4,784 | 3,241 |
NVIDIA | 60,798 | 54,935 |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, ADR | 15,740 | 2,141 |
Texas Instruments | 4,677 | 815 |
73,205 | ||
Software 19.4% | ||
Atlassian, Class A (1) | 8,135 | 1,587 |
Bill Holdings (1) | 12,664 | 871 |
Confluent, Class A (1) | 22,223 | 678 |
Crowdstrike Holdings, Class A (1) | 3,989 | 1,279 |
Datadog, Class A (1) | 8,488 | 1,049 |
Fortinet (1) | 5,973 | 408 |
Intuit | 9,247 | 6,011 |
Microsoft | 182,197 | 76,654 |
ServiceNow (1) | 16,532 | 12,604 |
Synopsys (1) | 11,528 | 6,588 |
107,729 | ||
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals 7.7% | ||
Apple | 248,719 | 42,650 |
42,650 | ||
Total Information Technology | 231,647 | |
MATERIALS 1.0% | ||
Chemicals 1.0% | ||
Linde | 5,847 | 2,715 |
Sherwin-Williams | 7,517 | 2,611 |
Total Materials | 5,326 | |
UTILITIES 0.7% | ||
Electric Utilities 0.7% | ||
Constellation Energy | 21,500 | 3,974 |
Total Utilities | 3,974 | |
Total Common Stocks (Cost $398,475) | 540,818 |
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH ETF
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(Cost and value in $000s) | ||
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS 0.6% | ||
Money Market Funds 0.6% | ||
State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, 5.26% (2) | 3,076,111 | 3,076 |
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $3,076) | 3,076 | |
Total Investments in Securities 98.2% of Net Assets (Cost $401,551) | $543,894 | |
Other Assets Less Liabilities 1.8% | 10,199 | |
Net Assets 100.0% | $554,093 |
‡ | Shares are denominated in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. |
(1) | Non-income producing. |
(2) | Seven-day yield |
ADR | American Depositary Receipts |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of this portfolio of investments.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH ETF
Unaudited
NOTES TO PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth ETF (the fund) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) as an open-end management investment company and follows accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946. The accompanying Portfolio of Investments was prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP). 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. For additional information on the fund’s significant accounting policies and investment related disclosures, please refer to the fund’s most recent semiannual or annual shareholder report and its prospectus.
VALUATION
Fair Value
The fund’s financial instruments are valued at the close of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4 p.m. ET, each day the NYSE is open for business, 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 fund’s Board of Directors (the Board) has designated T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. as the fund’s valuation designee (Valuation Designee). Subject to oversight by the Board, the Valuation Designee performs the following functions in performing fair value determinations: assesses and manages valuation risks; establishes and applies fair value methodologies; tests fair value methodologies; and evaluates pricing vendors and pricing agents. The duties and responsibilities of the Valuation Designee are performed by its Valuation Committee. The Valuation Designee 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 Valuation Designee’s 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.
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.
Investments in mutual funds are valued at the mutual fund’s closing NAV per share on the day of valuation.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH ETF
Investments for which market quotations are not readily available or deemed unreliable are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the Valuation Designee. The Valuation Designee has adopted methodologies for determining the fair value of investments for which market quotations are not readily available or deemed unreliable, including the use of other pricing sources. Factors used in determining fair value vary by type of investment and may include market or investment specific considerations. The Valuation Designee 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 Designee 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. Because any fair value determination involves a significant amount of judgment, there is a degree of subjectivity inherent in such pricing decisions. Fair value prices determined by the Valuation Designee could differ from those of other market participants, and it is possible that the fair value determined for a security may be materially different from the value that could be realized upon the sale of that security.
Valuation Inputs
On March 31, 2024, all of the fund’s financial instruments were classified as Level 1, based on the inputs used to determine their fair values.
OTHER MATTERS
Unpredictable events such as environmental or natural disasters, war and conflict, terrorism, geopolitical events, and public health epidemics and similar public health threats may significantly affect the economy and the markets and issuers in which the 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.
The global outbreak of COVID-19 and the related governmental and public responses have led and may continue to lead to increased market volatility and the potential for illiquidity in certain classes of securities and sectors of the market either in specific countries or worldwide.
In February 2022, Russian forces entered Ukraine and commenced an armed conflict leading to economic sanctions being imposed on Russia that target certain of its citizens and issuers and sectors of the Russian economy, creating impacts on Russian-related stocks and debt and greater volatility in global markets.
In March 2023, the banking industry experienced heightened volatility, which sparked concerns of potential broader adverse market conditions. The extent of impact of these events on the US and global markets is highly uncertain.
These are recent examples of global events which may have a negative impact on the values of certain portfolio holdings or the fund’s overall performance. Management is actively monitoring the risks and financial impacts arising from these events.
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