N-Q

UNITED STATES 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 

 Washington, D.C. 20549 

FORM N-Q 

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED 

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES 

Investment Company Act File Number: 811-7055 

T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc. 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter) 

100 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 

(Address of principal executive offices) 

David Oestreicher 

100 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 

(Name and address of agent for service) 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (410) 345-2000 

Date of fiscal year end: December 31 

Date of reporting period: March 31, 2011 

Item 1. Schedule of Investments

 Dividend Growth Fund March 31, 2011 

T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND 

Unaudited

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this Portfolio of Investments.

T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund
Unaudited

NOTES TO PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc. (the fund), is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) as a diversified, open-end management investment company. The fund seeks to provide increasing dividend income over time, long-term growth of capital, and a reasonable level of current income through investments primarily in dividend-paying stocks.

NOTE 1 - SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of Preparation
The accompanying Portfolio of Investments was prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), which require 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 Portfolio of Investments may differ from the values ultimately realized upon sale or maturity.

Investment Transactions
Investment transactions are accounted for on the trade date.

Currency Translation
Assets, including investments, and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollar values each day at the prevailing exchange rate, using the mean of the bid and asked prices of such currencies against U.S. dollars as quoted by a major bank. Purchases and sales of securities are translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing exchange rate on the date of the transaction.

NOTE 2 - VALUATION

The fund’s financial instruments are reported at fair value as defined by GAAP. The fund values its investments and computes its net asset value per share at the close of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), normally 4 p.m. ET, each day that the NYSE is open for business.

Valuation Methods
Equity securities 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, except for OTC Bulletin Board securities, which are valued at the mean of the latest bid and asked prices. 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 latest bid and asked prices for domestic securities and the last quoted sale price for international securities.

Debt securities are generally traded in the OTC market. Securities with remaining maturities of one year or more at the time of acquisition are valued at prices furnished by dealers who make markets in such securities or by an independent pricing service, which considers the yield or price of bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity, and type, as well as prices quoted by dealers who make markets in such securities. Securities with remaining maturities of less than one year at the time of acquisitiongenerally use amortized cost in local currency to approximate fair value. However, if amortized cost is deemed not to reflect fair value or the fund holds a significant amount of such securities with remaining maturities of more than 60 days, the securities are valued at prices furnished by dealers who make markets in such securities or by an independent pricing service.

Investments in mutual funds are valued at the mutual fund’s closing net asset value per share on the day of valuation.

Other investments, including restricted securities, and those for which the above valuation procedures are inappropriate or are deemed not to reflect fair value are stated at fair value as determined in good faith by the T. Rowe Price Valuation Committee, established by the fund’s Board of Directors.

For valuation purposes, the last quoted prices of non-U.S. equity securities may be adjusted under the circumstances described below. If the fund determines that developments between the close of a foreign market and the close of the NYSE will, in its judgment, materially affect the value of some or all of its portfolio securities, the fund will adjust the previous closing prices to reflect what it believes to be the fair value of the securities as of the close of the NYSE. In deciding whether it is necessary to adjust closing prices to reflect fair value, the fund reviews a variety of factors, including developments in foreign markets, the performance of U.S. securities markets, and the performance of instruments trading in U.S. markets that represent foreign securities and baskets of foreign securities. A fund may also fair value securities in other situations, such as when a particular foreign market is closed but the fund is open. The fund uses outside pricing services to provide it with closing prices and information to evaluate and/or adjust those prices. The fund cannot predict how often it will use closing prices and how often it will determine it necessary to adjust those prices to reflect fair value. As a means of evaluating its security valuation process, the fund routinely compares closing prices, the next day’s opening prices in the same markets, and adjusted prices.

Valuation Inputs
Various inputs are used to determine the value of the fund’s financial instruments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical financial instruments

Level 2 – observable inputs other than Level 1 quoted prices (including, but not limited to, quoted prices for similar financial instruments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, and credit risk)

Level 3 – unobservable inputs

Observable inputs are those based on market data obtained from sources independent of the fund, and unobservable inputs reflect the fund’s own assumptions based on the best information available. The input levels are not necessarily an indication of the risk or liquidity associated with financial instruments at that level. For example, non-U.S. equity securities actively traded in foreign markets generally are reflected in Level 2 despite the availability of closing prices because the fund evaluates and determines whether those closing prices reflect fair value at the close of the NYSE or require adjustment, as described above. The following table summarizes the fund’s financial instruments, based on the inputs used to determine their values on March 31, 2011:

NOTE 3 - OTHER INVESTMENT TRANSACTIONS

Consistent with its investment objective, the fund engages in the following practices to manage exposure to certain risks and/or to enhance performance. The investment objective, policies, program, and risk factors of the fund are described more fully in the fund’s prospectus and Statement of Additional Information.

Securities Lending
The fund lends its securities to approved brokers to earn additional income. It receives as collateral cash and U.S. government securities valued at 102% to 105% of the value of the securities on loan. Cash collateral is invested by the fund’s lending agent(s) in accordance with investment guidelines approved by management. Although risk is mitigated by the collateral, the fund could experience a delay in recovering its securities and a possible loss of income or value if the borrower fails to return the securities or if collateral investments decline in value. In accordance with GAAP, investments made with cash collateral are reflected in the accompanying portfolio of investments, but collateral received in the form of securities are not. On March 31, 2011, the value of loaned securities was $18,894,000 and csh collateral investments totaled $19,324,000.

NOTE 4 - FEDERAL INCOME TAXES

At March 31, 2011, the cost of investments for federal income tax purposes was $1,373,098,000. Net unrealized gain aggregated $450,129,000 at period-end, of which $455,815,000 related to appreciated investments and $5,686,000 related to depreciated investments.

NOTE 5 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

The fund may invest in the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund and the T. Rowe Price Government Reserve Investment Fund (collectively, the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Funds), open-end management investment companies managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (Price Associates) and considered affiliates of the fund. The T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Funds are offered as cash management options to mutual funds, trusts, and other accounts managed by Price Associates and/or its affiliates and are not available for direct purchase by members of the public. The T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Funds pay no investment management fees.

Item 2. Controls and Procedures.

(a) The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have evaluated the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures within 90 days of this filing and have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective, as of that date, in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by the registrant in this Form N-Q was recorded, processed, summarized, and reported timely.

(b) The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer are aware of no change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 3. Exhibits.

Separate certifications by the registrant's principal executive officer and principal financial officer, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, are attached.

SIGNATURES
	Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment
Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc.
By	/s/ Edward C. Bernard
	Edward C. Bernard
	Principal Executive Officer
Date	May 19, 2011
	Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment
Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of
the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
By	/s/ Edward C. Bernard
	Edward C. Bernard
	Principal Executive Officer
Date	May 19, 2011
By	/s/ Gregory K. Hinkle
	Gregory K. Hinkle
	Principal Financial Officer
Date	May 19, 2011

EX-99.CERT

Item 3.

CERTIFICATIONS 

I, Edward C. Bernard, certify that:
1.	I have reviewed this report on Form N-Q of T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc.;
2.	Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit
	to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under
	which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3.	Based on my knowledge, the schedules of investments included in this report fairly present in all
	material respects the investments of the registrant as of the end of the fiscal quarter for which the
	report is filed;
4.	The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining
	disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act
	of 1940) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the
	Investment Company Act of 1940) for the registrant and have:
	(a)	Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and
		procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating
		to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others
		within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
	(b)	Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over
		financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance
		regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for
		external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
	(c)	Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and
		presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and
		procedures, as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report, based on such
		evaluation; and
	(d)	Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting
		that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or
		is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial
		reporting; and
5.	The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed to the registrant's auditors and the
	audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent
	functions):
	(a)	All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal
		control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the
		registrant's ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and
	(b)	Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have
		a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

Date:	May 19, 2011	/s/ Edward C. Bernard
		Edward C. Bernard
		Principal Executive Officer

CERTIFICATIONS 

I, Gregory K. Hinkle, certify that:
1.	I have reviewed this report on Form N-Q of T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc.;
2.	Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit
	to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under
	which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3.	Based on my knowledge, the schedules of investments included in this report fairly present in all
	material respects the investments of the registrant as of the end of the fiscal quarter for which the
	report is filed;
4.	The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining
	disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act
	of 1940) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the
	Investment Company Act of 1940) for the registrant and have:
	(a)	Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and
		procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating
		to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others
		within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
	(b)	Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over
		financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance
		regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for
		external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
	(c)	Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and
		presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and
		procedures, as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report, based on such
		evaluation; and
	(d)	Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting
		that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or
		is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial
		reporting; and
5.	The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed to the registrant's auditors and the
	audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent
	functions):
	(a)	All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal
		control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the
		registrant's ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and
	(b)	Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have
		a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

Date:	May 19, 2011	/s/ Gregory K. Hinkle
		Gregory K. Hinkle
		Principal Financial Officer