Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. TROW scored 75.0, TY scored 76.0 — TY leads.
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TROW
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.
Asset Management · Financial strength
90.7Fin
$105.16 · $22.4B
fundamentals as of
Strength gap
5.1
TROW leads
TY
Tri-Continental Corporation
Asset Management · Financial strength
85.6Fin
$34.78 · $1.9B
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestTY5.5x
Fastest growthTROW+3.1%
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
TY
+3.1%C+
Rev
-20.7%F
10.5xA-
P/E
5.5xA
19.4%B+
ROE
16.7%B+
2.04C+
P/B
0.91A-
5.0%B+
Yield
3.4%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 · $105.16 · beta 1.47
Why now
Asset Management · market cap $22.4b. 14% off the 52-week high of $122.00. 13 sell-side analysts rate this a Hold with a mean 1-yr target of $107.08 (implying +2% 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.
TYTri-Continental Corporation
Asset Management · $34.78 · beta 0.85
Why now
Asset Management · market cap $1.9b. 5% off the 52-week high of $36.55. Revenue -21% — in contraction; any catalyst that reverses this triggers re-rating.
Moat
ROE 17% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately.
Risk
Revenue contracting -21% — the operational turn is not yet visible in the top line. P/S 26.9x embeds aggressive forward growth — disappointing top-line guidance would compress the multiple hard. 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 TY or TROW the better stock?
TY scores higher: TY 76.0, 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 TY 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.