Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. TROW scored 75.0, FHI scored 80.0 — FHI leads.
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Different reporting periods. TROW's fundamentals are as of June 2026, but FHI's are as of March 2026 — a 3-month gap. Growth, margin and valuation figures below therefore describe different windows and aren't strictly like-for-like.
TROW
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.
Asset Management · Financial strength
90.7Fin
$101.39 · $21.6B
fundamentals as of
Strength gap
2.0
TROW leads
FHI
Federated Hermes, Inc.
Asset Management · Financial strength
88.7Fin
$55.05 · $4.1B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestTROW10.2x
Fastest growthFHI+10.3%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
TROW
FHI
+3.1%C+
Rev
+10.3%B
10.2xA-
P/E
10.3xA-
19.4%B+
ROE
31.1%A
2.02C+
P/B
3.20C
4.9%B+
Yield
2.5%B
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
The companies
TROWT. Rowe Price Group, Inc.
Asset Management · $101.39 · beta 1.47
Why now
Asset Management · market cap $21.6b. 17% off the 52-week high of $122.00. 13 sell-side analysts rate this a Hold with a mean 1-yr target of $106.77 (implying +5% upside).
Moat
Net margin 29% sits well above the S&P median (~11%) — suggests structural pricing advantage or cost discipline competitors can't quickly close. ROE 19% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately.
Risk
Beta 1.47 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return. Balance-sheet financial — book value, net interest margin, and credit loss provisions are the lever points; a rates regime change or a deterioration in the loan book moves the stock more than EPS does.
FHIFederated Hermes, Inc.
Asset Management · $55.05 · beta 0.64
Why now
Asset Management · market cap $4.1b. 18% off the 52-week high of $67.20. Revenue growing +10%, comfortably above the S&P median. 7 sell-side analysts rate this a Hold with a mean 1-yr target of $59.43 (implying +8% upside).
Moat
Net margin 21% sits well above the S&P median (~11%) — suggests structural pricing advantage or cost discipline competitors can't quickly close. ROE 31% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which.
Risk
Balance-sheet financial — book value, net interest margin, and credit loss provisions are the lever points; a rates regime change or a deterioration in the loan book moves the stock more than EPS does.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Common questions
Is FHI or TROW the better stock?
FHI scores higher: FHI 80.0, TROW 75.0 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
How are FHI and TROW scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.