T Rowe Price Group Inc vs United Microelectronics Corp — how do they compare? T Rowe Price Group Inc trades at $115.59 (market cap $25.14B), while United Microelectronics Corp trades at $21.14 (market cap $51.00B). The key difference: United Microelectronics Corp is far larger — about 2× T Rowe Price Group Inc's market cap, and T Rowe Price Group Inc pays the higher dividend (4.43%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| TROW | UMC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $25.14B | $51.00B |
Sector | Financials | Technology |
52-Week High | $120.16 | $28.02 |
52-Week Low | $86.19 | $6.58 |
Enterprise Value | $21.85B | $48.57B |
Dividend Yield | 4.43% | 2.03% |
Trailing returns across standard periods
T. Rowe Price provides asset-management services for individual and institutional investors. It offers a broad range of no-load U.S. and international stock, hybrid, bond, and money market funds. At the end of August 2022, the firm had $1.339 trillion in managed assets, composed of equity (54%), balanced (30%), fixed-income (13%), and alternatives (3%) offerings. Approximately two thirds of the company's managed assets are held in retirement-based accounts, which provides T. Rowe Price with a somewhat stickier client base than most of its peers. The firm also manages private accounts, provides retirement planning advice, and offers discount brokerage and trust services. The company is primarily a U.S.-based asset manager, deriving just under 10% of its AUM from overseas.
Read more on TROW →Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 7% market share in 2021, according to Gartner, after TSMC and GlobalFoundries. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the U.S. and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base including Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.
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