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T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND
September 30, 2019 (Unaudited)

Portfolio of Investments  Shares  $ Value 
(Cost and value in $000s)     
COMMON STOCKS 100.0%     
COMMUNICATION SERVICES 15.6%     
Entertainment 1.8%     
Electronic Arts (1)  4,021,900  393,422 
Netflix (1)  2,710,000  725,250 
    1,118,672 
Interactive Media & Services 13.8%     
Alphabet, Class A (1)  641,368  783,200 
Alphabet, Class C (1)  2,276,532  2,775,093 
Facebook, Class A (1)  19,705,600  3,509,173 
IAC/InterActiveCorp (1)  1,417,173  308,901 
Match Group (2)  848,900  60,646 
Tencent Holdings (HKD)  32,158,300  1,345,115 
    8,782,128 
Total Communication Services    9,900,800 
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY 21.5%     
Auto Components 0.8%     
Aptiv  5,785,900  505,803 
    505,803 
Automobiles 0.1%     
Ferrari  517,700  79,773 
    79,773 
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure 2.6%     
Hilton Worldwide Holdings  3,324,873  309,579 
Marriott International, Class A  2,066,600  257,023 
McDonald's  2,119,400  455,056 
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (1)  177,900  9,210 
Restaurant Brands International  2,595,550  184,647 
Royal Caribbean Cruises  1,445,700  156,613 
Wynn Resorts  97,319  10,581 
Yum! Brands  2,428,800  275,499 
    1,658,208 

 

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  Shares  $ Value 
(Cost and value in $000s)     
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail 14.7%     
Alibaba Group Holding, ADR (1)  13,864,280  2,318,523 
Amazon.com (1)  3,301,800  5,731,628 
Booking Holdings (1)  611,391  1,199,922 
Ctrip.com International, ADR (1)  2,754,440  80,678 
    9,330,751 
Multiline Retail 1.7%     
Dollar General  5,242,600  833,259 
Dollar Tree (1)  2,421,000  276,381 
    1,109,640 
Specialty Retail 1.0%     
Ross Stores  5,332,386  585,763 
TJX  483,900  26,972 
    612,735 
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods 0.6%     
NIKE, Class B  2,001,800  188,009 
VF  1,959,500  174,376 
    362,385 
Total Consumer Discretionary    13,659,295 
CONSUMER STAPLES 0.1%     
Beverages 0.1%     
Constellation Brands, Class A  162,600  33,704 
    33,704 
Tobacco 0.0%     
Philip Morris International  25,000  1,898 
    1,898 
Total Consumer Staples    35,602 
ENERGY 0.5%     
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels 0.5%     
Concho Resources  1,471,000  99,881 
Pioneer Natural Resources  1,465,800  184,354 
Total Energy    284,235 

 

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


 

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  Shares  $ Value 
(Cost and value in $000s)     
FINANCIALS 5.4%     
 
Banks 0.0%     
Citigroup  261,500  18,064 
JPMorgan Chase  101,700  11,969 
    30,033 
Capital Markets 3.4%     
Ameriprise Financial  234,000  34,421 
Charles Schwab  7,016,700  293,509 
Goldman Sachs Group  308,000  63,827 
Intercontinental Exchange  6,828,400  630,056 
Moody's  99,100  20,299 
Morgan Stanley  4,549,900  194,144 
S&P Global  1,399,100  342,752 
TD Ameritrade Holding  11,885,490  555,052 
    2,134,060 
Insurance 2.0%     
American International Group  6,923,300  385,628 
Chubb  646,800  104,419 
Marsh & McLennan  1,868,800  186,974 
Progressive  186,300  14,392 
Willis Towers Watson  3,117,300  601,545 
    1,292,958 
Total Financials    3,457,051 
HEALTH CARE 14.8%     
 
Biotechnology 1.8%     
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (1)  2,364,367  231,566 
Amgen  22,000  4,257 
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (1)  5,412,200  916,935 
    1,152,758 
Health Care Equipment & Supplies 7.1%     
Abbott Laboratories  1,931,000  161,567 
Becton Dickinson & Company  4,484,717  1,134,454 
Boston Scientific (1)  580,900  23,637 
Danaher  5,566,291  803,940 

 

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


 

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  Shares  $ Value 
(Cost and value in $000s)     
Exact Sciences (1)(2)  323,900  29,271 
Intuitive Surgical (1)  1,688,119  911,466 
Stryker  6,456,700  1,396,584 
Teleflex  163,000  55,379 
    4,516,298 
Health Care Providers & Services 4.5%     
Anthem  2,407,338  578,002 
Centene (1)(2)  2,548,076  110,230 
Cigna  5,546,174  841,854 
HCA Healthcare  897,200  108,041 
UnitedHealth Group  4,249,100  923,414 
WellCare Health Plans (1)  1,065,659  276,187 
    2,837,728 
Health Care Technology 0.1%     
Veeva Systems, Class A (1)  210,000  32,065 
    32,065 
Life Sciences Tools & Services 1.2%     
Agilent Technologies  579,900  44,438 
Thermo Fisher Scientific  2,553,207  743,672 
    788,110 
Pharmaceuticals 0.1%     
Elanco Animal Health (1)  767,032  20,395 
Eli Lilly  39,911  4,463 
Merck  43,000  3,620 
Zoetis  315,400  39,296 
    67,774 
Total Health Care    9,394,733 
INDUSTRIALS & BUSINESS SERVICES 9.4%     
Aerospace & Defense 6.0%     
Boeing  6,654,872  2,531,979 
L3Harris Technologies  2,401,000  500,945 
Northrop Grumman  2,031,800  761,498 
    3,794,422 

 

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


 

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  Shares  $ Value 
(Cost and value in $000s)     
 
Airlines 0.7%     
Delta Air Lines  2,268,700  130,677 
United Airlines Holdings (1)  3,957,800  349,909 
    480,586 
Commercial Services & Supplies 0.2%     
Cintas (2)  408,700  109,573 
    109,573 
Industrial Conglomerates 1.3%     
Honeywell International  1,782,500  301,599 
Roper Technologies  1,488,100  530,656 
    832,255 
Machinery 0.3%     
Fortive  2,651,750  181,804 
Xylem  53,400  4,252 
    186,056 
Professional Services 0.3%     
CoStar Group (1)  101,300  60,091 
Equifax  225,000  31,651 
IHS Markit (1)  1,411,406  94,395 
    186,137 
Road & Rail 0.6%     
Canadian Pacific Railway (2)  896,300  199,391 
Kansas City Southern  606,300  80,644 
Norfolk Southern  62,600  11,247 
Union Pacific  605,900  98,143 
    389,425 
Total Industrials & Business Services    5,978,454 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 31.5%     
Communications Equipment 0.1%     
Motorola Solutions  512,500  87,335 
    87,335 

 

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


 

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  Shares  $ Value 
(Cost and value in $000s)     
 
IT Services 14.3%     
ANT International, Class C, Acquisition Date: 6/7/18, Cost     
$104,886 (1)(3)(4)  18,696,173  120,216 
Automatic Data Processing  606,700  97,934 
Fidelity National Information Services  8,794,120  1,167,507 
Fiserv (1)  9,326,900  966,174 
FleetCor Technologies (1)  992,000  284,486 
Global Payments  6,762,700  1,075,269 
Mastercard, Class A  7,498,700  2,036,422 
PayPal Holdings (1)  9,993,300  1,035,206 
Visa, Class A  13,397,500  2,304,504 
    9,087,718 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 2.5%     
Analog Devices  1,250,000  139,662 
Applied Materials  3,203,400  159,850 
Broadcom  24,250  6,695 
KLA  957,000  152,594 
Lam Research  231,700  53,548 
Marvell Technology Group  10,073,200  251,528 
Maxim Integrated Products  3,477,900  201,405 
Microchip Technology (2)  605,400  56,248 
NVIDIA  1,675,100  291,585 
QUALCOMM  117,900  8,993 
Texas Instruments  1,969,800  254,577 
Xilinx  192,822  18,491 
    1,595,176 
Software 14.4%     
Atlassian, Class A (1)  543,178  68,136 
DocuSign (1)(2)  1,343,800  83,208 
Intuit  4,902,845  1,303,863 
Microsoft  28,261,200  3,929,155 
salesforce.com (1)  7,907,515  1,173,791 
ServiceNow (1)  4,572,200  1,160,653 
Splunk (1)(2)  3,632,530  428,130 
Synopsys (1)  328,000  45,018 
VMware, Class A (2)  1,765,900  264,991 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of this Portfolio of Investments.     

 


 

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  Shares  $ Value 
(Cost and value in $000s)     
Workday, Class A (1)  3,847,200  653,870 
Zoom Video Communications, Class A (1)(2)  159,107  12,124 
    9,122,939 
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals 0.2%     
Apple  452,100  101,257 
    101,257 
Total Information Technology    19,994,425 
MATERIALS 0.8%     
Chemicals 0.7%     
Air Products & Chemicals  428,400  95,045 
Linde  955,400  185,080 
Sherwin-Williams  312,050  171,587 
    451,712 
Containers & Packaging 0.1%     
Ball  618,300  45,018 
    45,018 
Total Materials    496,730 
REAL ESTATE 0.0%     
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts 0.0%     
American Tower, REIT  78,100  17,270 
Total Real Estate    17,270 
UTILITIES 0.4%     
Electric Utilities 0.0%     
NextEra Energy  27,800  6,477 
    6,477 
Multi-Utilities 0.4%     
Sempra Energy  1,655,829  244,417 
    244,417 
Total Utilities    250,894 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $34,976,578)    63,469,489 

 

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


 

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

  Shares    $ Value 
(Cost and value in $000s)       
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS 0.0%       
Money Market Funds 0.0%       
T. Rowe Price Government Reserve Fund, 2.00% (5)(6)  18,177,118    18,177 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $18,177)      18,177 
SECURITIES LENDING COLLATERAL 0.2%       
Investments in a Pooled Account through Securities Lending       
Program with State Street Bank and Trust Company 0.2%       
Short-Term Funds 0.2%       
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Fund, 2.07% (5)(6)  15,298,925    152,989 
Total Investments in a Pooled Account through Securities Lending Program with     
State Street Bank and Trust Company      152,989 
Total Securities Lending Collateral (Cost $152,989)      152,989 
 
Total Investments in Securities 100.2%       
(Cost $35,147,744)    $  63,640,655 
Other Assets Less Liabilities (0.2)%      (136,873) 
Net Assets 100.0%    $  63,503,782 

 

  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 September 30, 2019. 
(3) 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 $120,216 and represents 0.2% of net assets. 
(4) Level 3 in fair value hierarchy. 
(5) Affiliated Companies 
(6) Seven-day yield 
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 nine
months ended September 30, 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    $    $    $  1,121 
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Fund            —++
Totals    $    #           $    $  1,121+ 
 
 
Supplementary Investment Schedule           
    Value  Purchase  Sales    Value 
Affiliate    12/31/18  Cost  Cost    9/30/19 
T. Rowe Price Government             
Reserve Fund  $  226,447    ¤  ¤   $  18,177 
T. Rowe Price Short-Term             
Fund    607,463    ¤  ¤    152,989 
            $  171,166^ 

 

# 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 $1,121 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 $171,166.

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 September 30, 2019 (for further detail by category, please refer to the accompanying Portfolio of Investments):

($000s)    Level 1  Level 2  Level 3  Total Value 
Assets           
Common Stocks  $  62,004,158  $                                    1,345,115 $                                 120,216 $             63,469,489 
Short-Term Investments    18,177      18,177 
Securities Lending Collateral    152,989      152,989 
Total  $  62,175,324  $                                   1,345,115  $                                120,216  $             63,640,655 

 

Following is a reconciliation of the fund’s Level 3 holdings for the period ended September 30, 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 September 30, 2019, totaled $15,330,000 for the period ended September 30,
2019.

($000s)       Gain     
        Beginning    (Loss)    Ending 
        Balance    During    Balance 
        1/1/19    Period    9/30/19 
  Investment in Securities              
  Common Stocks   $ 104,886  $  15,330  $ 120,216