T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund drawdown: 5.8% below the all-time high (price)
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund is 5.8% below its all-time high, set Oct 29, 2025 (as of market close, Oct 19, 2026), measured on price alone — dividends are not included, the convention headlines and crash histories use. The chart shows every day as a percentage of the highest level reached up to that point: 100% means a fresh record, everything below is a drawdown.
- Below all-time high
- −5.8%
- 94.2% of ATH
- All-time high
- $227.75
- Oct 29, 2025
- Time below the high
- 12 mo
- since Oct 29, 2025
- Worst-ever drawdown
- −50.7%
- Jan 5, 2023
- Longest underwater
- 3.0 yrs
- between all-time highs
- Today's level first reached
- Sep 15, 2025
- 13 mo ago
- Last time this deep
- Jul 1, 2025
- in a previous episode
% of all-time high since 2017: price#
The classic underwater chart (drawdown curve), drawn as % of the all-time high — 100% is a fresh record, everything below it is time spent underwater. Basis and range are in the URL, so a particular view is a link.
The deepest drawdowns on record#
Every decline of 15% or more from an all-time high (price basis), deepest first.
| Peak | Trough | Depth | Peak → trough | Recovered by | Underwater |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2021 | Jan 5, 2023 | −50.7% | 14 mo | Dec 3, 2024 | 3.0 yrs |
| Feb 19, 2020 | Mar 23, 2020 | −30.8% | 33 days | Jun 9, 2020 | 4 mo |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Apr 8, 2025 | −28.5% | 4 mo | Aug 28, 2025 | 9 mo |
| Oct 1, 2018 | Dec 24, 2018 | −22.5% | 3 mo | Apr 25, 2019 | 7 mo |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Mar 30, 2026 | −21.1% | 5 mo | not yet | 12 mo+ |
Price basis (no dividends) — the convention crash histories use. With dividends reinvested, recoveries arrive years earlier; switch the basis on the chart above to see it.
Drawdown vs what came next#
One dot per month since 2017: how far T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund stood below its all-time high, and the total return over the following 1, 5 and 10 years.
Read this with survivorship bias in mind: a single asset's history is one surviving sample, so past recoveries here say little about the odds ahead. Monthly windows also overlap heavily (they are not independent samples). Not investment advice.
FAQ#
- How far is T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund from its all-time high?
- T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund is currently 5.8% below its all-time high, set Oct 29, 2025 (as of market close, Oct 19, 2026). Prices only, the convention headlines use; with dividends reinvested the gap is usually smaller.
- What was the biggest T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund drawdown ever?
- The deepest decline on record in our data (since 2017) took T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund 50.7% below its prior high, bottoming Jan 5, 2023. The table on this page lists every major episode with its peak, trough and recovery date.
Methodology & related#
Daily data since -1 from TRBCX; no free deep history exists for T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund — for a 150-year drawdown record see the S&P 500 drawdown page. The price basis excludes dividends; the total-return basis reinvests them; the real basis additionally deflates by CPI. See also returns by year. Past performance does not predict future returns; not investment advice.