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T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND

March 31, 2019 (Unaudited)  
   
 
Portfolio of Investments Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
COMMON STOCKS 100.0%    
COMMUNICATION SERVICES 15.7%    
 
Entertainment 2.1%    
Activision Blizzard 94,900 4,321
Electronic Arts (1) 3,235,200 328,793
Netflix (1) 2,699,400 962,498
    1,295,612
Interactive Media & Services 13.6%    
Alphabet, Class A (1) 786,068 925,116
Alphabet, Class C (1) 2,223,832 2,609,244
Facebook, Class A (1) 17,979,700 2,997,036
IAC/InterActiveCorp (1) 1,240,900 260,726
Tencent Holdings (HKD) 30,393,200 1,397,716
    8,189,838
Total Communication Services   9,485,450
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY 21.3%    
 
Auto Components 0.7%    
Aptiv 5,068,600 402,903
    402,903
Automobiles 0.3%    
Ferrari (2) 522,400 69,897
Tesla (1)(2) 332,053 92,929
    162,826
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure 3.0%    
Domino's Pizza 122,500 31,617
Hilton Worldwide Holdings 3,363,973 279,580
Marriott International, Class A 2,811,700 351,716
McDonald's 1,317,400 250,174
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (1) 2,039,700 112,102
Restaurant Brands International 3,068,790 199,809
Royal Caribbean Cruises 2,623,600 300,717
Wynn Resorts 480,719 57,359
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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
Yum! Brands 2,514,600 250,982
    1,834,056
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail 15.4%    
Alibaba Group Holding, ADR (1) 11,514,780 2,100,872
Amazon.com (1) 3,312,100 5,898,022
Booking Holdings (1) 686,000 1,197,008
Ctrip.com International, ADR (1) 1,933,440 84,472
    9,280,374
Multiline Retail 0.9%    
Dollar General 4,460,100 532,090
    532,090
Specialty Retail 0.9%    
Ross Stores 5,255,386 489,276
Ulta Beauty (1) 215,000 74,977
    564,253
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods 0.1%    
V. F. 810,500 70,441
    70,441
Total Consumer Discretionary   12,846,943
CONSUMER STAPLES 0.2%    
Beverages 0.0%    
Constellation Brands, Class A 36,000 6,312
    6,312
Tobacco 0.2%    
Philip Morris International 1,324,500 117,072
    117,072
Total Consumer Staples   123,384
FINANCIALS 4.9%    
Banks 0.1%    
Citigroup 686,900 42,739
    42,739
 
 
   

 


 

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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
 
Capital Markets 3.5%    
Ameriprise Financial 20,000 2,562
Charles Schwab 9,260,000 395,958
Goldman Sachs Group 68,600 13,170
Intercontinental Exchange 5,214,700 397,047
Moody's 68,700 12,441
Morgan Stanley 6,024,500 254,234
Raymond James Financial 681,943 54,835
S&P Global 986,800 207,771
TD Ameritrade Holding 15,502,798 774,985
    2,113,003
Insurance 1.3%    
American International Group 1,543,900 66,480
Chubb 522,900 73,248
Marsh & McLennan 1,309,200 122,934
Progressive 968,700 69,833
Willis Towers Watson 2,807,100 493,067
    825,562
Total Financials   2,981,304
HEALTH CARE 19.6%    
 
Biotechnology 2.4%    
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (1) 2,982,536 403,179
Celgene (1) 37,400 3,528
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (1) 204,000 83,767
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (1) 5,248,400 965,443
    1,455,917
Health Care Equipment & Supplies 7.3%    
Abbott Laboratories 2,134,300 170,616
Becton Dickinson & Company 4,558,017 1,138,274
Boston Scientific (1) 122,900 4,717
Danaher 5,525,591 729,488
Intuitive Surgical (1) 1,844,819 1,052,617
Stryker 6,516,200 1,287,080
    4,382,792
 
   

 


 

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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
 
Health Care Providers & Services 7.3%    
Anthem 3,168,800 909,382
Centene (1) 5,038,076 267,522
Cigna 5,267,674 847,147
HCA Healthcare 968,200 126,234
Humana 1,231,500 327,579
UnitedHealth Group 6,510,400 1,609,762
WellCare Health Plans (1) 1,112,459 300,086
    4,387,712
Life Sciences Tools & Services 1.3%    
Agilent Technologies 871,100 70,019
Illumina (1) 21,029 6,533
Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,695,407 737,787
    814,339
Pharmaceuticals 1.3%    
Elanco Animal Health (1) 3,199,132 102,596
Eli Lilly 4,107,111 532,939
Merck 116,400 9,681
Pfizer 1,962,400 83,343
Zoetis 717,000 72,180
    800,739
Total Health Care   11,841,499
INDUSTRIALS & BUSINESS SERVICES 8.7%    
Aerospace & Defense 4.8%    
Boeing 5,762,200 2,197,818
Harris (2) 1,778,100 283,980
Northrop Grumman 1,638,100 441,632
    2,923,430
Airlines 0.5%    
American Airlines Group (2) 158,519 5,035
Delta Air Lines 1,317,000 68,023
United Continental Holdings (1) 2,777,100 221,557
    294,615
 
   

 


 

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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
Commercial Services & Supplies 0.1%    
Cintas 272,000 54,974
    54,974
Industrial Conglomerates 1.6%    
Honeywell International 2,432,200 386,525
Roper Technologies 1,630,400 557,548
    944,073
Machinery 0.5%    
Fortive 3,128,150 262,421
Xylem 621,400 49,115
    311,536
Professional Services 0.1%    
CoStar Group (1) 102,300 47,715
IHS Markit (1) 322,906 17,559
    65,274
Road & Rail 1.1%    
Canadian Pacific Railway 1,047,600 215,837
CSX 3,273,900 244,953
JB Hunt Transport Services 64,800 6,564
Kansas City Southern 115,200 13,361
Norfolk Southern 224,800 42,013
Union Pacific 801,600 134,027
    656,755
Total Industrials & Business Services   5,250,657
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 28.8%    
Communications Equipment 0.1%    
Motorola Solutions 311,700 43,769
    43,769
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components 0.0%    
Corning 165,000 5,461
    5,461
 
 
   

 


 

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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
 
IT Services 12.4%    
ANT International, Class C Acquisition Date: 6/7/18,    
Cost $104,886 (1)(3)(4) 18,696,173 104,886
Automatic Data Processing 459,800 73,449
Fidelity National Information Services 3,596,500 406,764
Fiserv (1)(2) 6,912,800 610,262
FleetCor Technologies (1) 702,400 173,205
Global Payments 5,903,700 805,973
Mastercard, Class A 7,566,900 1,781,627
PayPal Holdings (1) 10,330,800 1,072,750
Visa, Class A 13,339,000 2,083,418
Worldpay, Class A (1) 3,284,575 372,799
    7,485,133
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 2.1%    
Analog Devices 386,700 40,708
Broadcom 537,950 161,767
KLA-Tencor 296,800 35,441
Lam Research 88,800 15,896
Maxim Integrated Products 4,314,300 229,391
Microchip Technology (2) 357,500 29,658
NVIDIA 1,653,100 296,831
Texas Instruments 2,853,500 302,671
Xilinx 1,134,200 143,805
    1,256,168
Software 14.0%    
Intuit 4,396,845 1,149,379
Microsoft 28,378,900 3,347,008
Salesforce.com (1) 7,342,515 1,162,834
ServiceNow (1) 4,617,000 1,138,044
Splunk (1)(2) 3,534,887 440,447
VMware, Class A 2,672,200 482,359
Workday, Class A (1) 3,784,700 729,879
    8,449,950
 
 
 
   

 


 

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  Shares $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)    
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals 0.2%    
Apple 618,700 117,522
    117,522
Total Information Technology   17,358,003
MATERIALS 0.5%    
Chemicals 0.4%    
Air Products & Chemicals 462,600 88,338
Sherwin-Williams 284,350 122,473
    210,811
Containers & Packaging 0.1%    
Ball 1,156,900 66,938
    66,938
Total Materials   277,749
REAL ESTATE 0.0%    
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts 0.0%    
American Tower, REIT 79,700 15,706
Total Real Estate   15,706
UTILITIES 0.3%    
Electric Utilities 0.0%    
NextEra Energy 28,100 5,432
    5,432
Multi-Utilities 0.3%    
Sempra Energy (2) 1,437,529 180,928
    180,928
Total Utilities   186,360
Total Common Stocks (Cost $32,786,704)   60,367,055
 
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS 0.0%    
Money Market Funds 0.0%    
T. Rowe Price Government Reserve Fund, 2.49% (5)(6) 13,037,777 13,038
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $13,038)   13,038
 
   

 


 

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  Shares   $ Value
(Cost and value in $000s)      
SECURITIES LENDING COLLATERAL 0.3%      
Investments in a Pooled Account through Securities Lending      
Program with State Street Bank and Trust Company 0.3%      
Short-Term Funds 0.3%      
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Fund, 2.60% (5)(6) 18,066,927   180,669
Total Investments in a Pooled Account through Securities Lending Program with    
State Street Bank and Trust Company     180,669
Total Securities Lending Collateral (Cost $180,669)     180,669
 
Total Investments in Securities 100.3%      
(Cost $32,980,411)   $ 60,560,762
Other Assets Less Liabilities (0.3)%     (190,983)
Net Assets 100.0%   $ 60,369,779

 

Shares are denominated in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.
(1) Non-income producing
(2) All or a portion of this security is on loan at March 31, 2019.
(3) Level 3 in fair value hierarchy.
(4) Security cannot be offered for public resale without first being registered
under the Securities Act of 1933 and related rules ("restricted security").
Acquisition date represents the day on which an enforceable right to acquire
such security is obtained and is presented along with related cost in the
security description. The fund has registration rights for certain restricted
securities. Any costs related to such registration are borne by the issuer. The
aggregate value of restricted securities (excluding 144A holdings) at period-
end amounts to $104,886 and represents 0.2% of net assets.
(5) Seven-day yield
(6) Affiliated Companies
ADR American Depositary Receipts
HKD Hong Kong Dollar
REIT A domestic Real Estate Investment Trust whose distributions pass-through
with original tax character to the shareholder


 

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Affiliated Companies
($000s)

The fund may invest in certain securities that are considered affiliated companies. As defined
by the 1940 Act, an affiliated company is one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the
outstanding voting securities, or a company that is under common ownership or control. The
following securities were considered affiliated companies for all or some portion of the three
months ended March 31, 2019. Net realized gain (loss), investment income, change in net
unrealized gain/loss, and purchase and sales cost reflect all activity for the period then ended.

        Change in Net    
    Net Realized Gain   Unrealized   Investment
Affiliate     (Loss)   Gain/Loss   Income
T. Rowe Price Government            
Reserve Fund   $ $ $ 424
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Fund       —++
Totals   $ —# $ $ 424+
 
 
Supplementary Investment Schedule          
    Value Purchase Sales   Value
Affiliate   12/31/18 Cost Cost   3/31/19
T. Rowe Price Government            
Reserve Fund $ 226,447   ¤ ¤ $   13,038
T. Rowe Price Short-Term            
Fund   607,463   ¤ ¤   180,669
          $   193,707^

 

# Capital gain distributions from mutual funds represented $0 of the net realized gain (loss).
++ Excludes earnings on securities lending collateral, which are subject to rebates and fees.
+ Investment income comprised $424 of dividend income and $0 of interest income.
¤ Purchase and sale information not shown for cash management funds.
^ The cost basis of investments in affiliated companies was $193,707.

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



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Unaudited
NOTES TO PORTFOLIO OF
INVESTMENTS


T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund, Inc. (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). 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

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.

Fair Value
The fund’s financial instruments 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 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 procedures to value securities; determines pricing
techniques, sources, and persons eligible to effect fair value pricing actions; oversees the selection, services, and
performance of pricing vendors; oversees valuation-related business continuity practices; and provides guidance on
internal controls and valuation-related matters. The Valuation Committee reports to the Board and has representation
from legal, portfolio management and trading, operations, risk management, and the fund’s treasurer.

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

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 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. OTC
Bulletin Board securities are valued at the mean of the closing 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 closing bid and asked prices for
domestic securities and the last quoted sale or closing price for international securities.

For valuation purposes, the last quoted prices of non-U.S. equity securities may be adjusted to reflect the fair value of
such securities at the close of the NYSE. If the fund determines that developments between the close of a foreign market
and the close of the NYSE will affect the value of some or all of its portfolio securities, the fund will adjust the previous
quoted 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 quoted 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. The 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 quoted prices and information to evaluate or adjust those prices. The fund
cannot predict how often it will use quoted 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 quoted prices, the
next day’s opening prices in the same markets, and adjusted prices.

Actively traded equity securities listed on a domestic exchange generally are categorized in Level 1 of the fair value
hierarchy. Non-U.S. equity securities generally are categorized in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy despite the
availability of quoted prices because, as described above, the fund evaluates and determines whether those quoted prices
reflect fair value at the close of the NYSE or require adjustment. OTC Bulletin Board securities, certain preferred
securities, and equity securities traded in inactive markets generally are categorized in Level 2 of the fair value
hierarchy.

Investments 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.

Investments in mutual funds are valued at the mutual fund’s closing NAV per share on the day of valuation and are
categorized in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

Thinly traded financial instruments 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 Valuation Committee. 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.

Subject to oversight by the Board, the Valuation Committee regularly makes good faith judgments to establish and
adjust the fair valuations of certain securities as events occur and circumstances warrant. For instance, in determining
the fair value of an equity investment with limited market activity, such as a private placement or a thinly traded public
company stock, the Valuation Committee considers a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to, the
issuer’s business prospects, its financial standing and performance, recent investment transactions in the issuer, new
rounds of financing, negotiated transactions of significant size between other investors in the company, relevant market
valuations of peer companies, strategic events affecting the company, market liquidity for the issuer, and general
economic conditions and events. In consultation with the investment and pricing teams, the Valuation Committee will
determine an appropriate valuation technique based on available information, which may include both observable and
unobservable inputs. 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


 

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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; 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
issue. 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. Depending on the relative significance of unobservable inputs, including the
valuation technique(s) used, fair valued securities may be categorized in Level 2 or 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

Valuation Inputs The following table summarizes the fund’s financial instruments, based on the inputs used to
determine their fair values on March 31, 2019 (for further detail by category, please refer to the accompanying Portfolio
of Investments):


Following is a reconciliation of the fund’s Level 3 holdings for the period ended March 31, 2019. Gain (loss) reflects
both realized and change in unrealized gain/loss on Level 3 holdings during the period, if any. The change in unrealized
gain/loss on Level 3 instruments held at March 31, 2019, totaled $0 for the period ended March 31, 2019.

($000 s)          
 
        Beginning Balance   Gain (Loss) During Ending Balance
        1/1/19   Period 3/31/19
  Investment in Securities            
  Common Stocks   $ 104,886 $ — $ 104,886