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Investor Class | T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price

New Horizons Fund

SUMMARY
Investment Objective
The fund seeks long-term capital growth by investing primarily in common stocks of small, rapidly growing companies.
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund

Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
Investor Class
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
USD ($)
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases none
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) none
Redemption fee none
Maximum account fee $ 20 [1]
[1] Subject to certain exceptions, accounts with a balance of less than $10,000 are charged an annual $20 fee.
Annual fund operating expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a
percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
Investor Class
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
Management fees 0.64%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees none
Other expenses 0.15%
Total annual fund operating expenses 0.79%
Example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example
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Investor Class | T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc. | T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc. | USD ($) 81 252 439 978
Portfolio Turnover
The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 34.1% of the average value of its portfolio.
Investments, Risks, and Performance

Principal Investment Strategies
The fund invests primarily in a diversified group of small, emerging growth companies, preferably early in their corporate life cycle before the companies become widely recognized by the investment community. The fund may also invest in companies that offer the possibility of accelerating earnings growth because of rejuvenated management, new products, or structural changes in the economy. The portfolio manager will not necessarily sell a position in a company that has grown beyond the developing stage if the company still fits the fund’s other investment criteria.

When choosing stocks for the fund’s portfolio, T. Rowe Price analysts tend to look for small growth companies that exhibit some or all of the following characteristics:
  • effective management;
  • operate in fertile growth areas;
  • demonstrate innovative research, product development, and marketing;
  • provide efficient service;
  • possess pricing flexibility; and
  • employ sound financial and accounting policies.
In pursuing its investment objective, the fund has the discretion to deviate from its normal investment criteria. These situations might arise when the fund’s adviser believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons, including an extraordinary corporate event, a new product introduction or innovation, a favorable competitive development, or a change in management.

The fund’s investments may include holdings in privately held companies and companies that only recently began to trade publicly. The fund may at times invest significantly in securities issued by technology companies. While most assets will typically be invested in U.S. common stocks, the fund may invest in foreign stocks in keeping with the fund’s objectives.

The fund may sell securities for a variety of reasons, such as to secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.
Principal Risks
As with any mutual fund, there is no guarantee that the fund will achieve its objective. The fund’s share price fluctuates, which means you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in this fund are summarized as follows:

Active management risk The fund is subject to the risk that the investment adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, or potential appreciation of the fund’s investments may prove to be incorrect. If the investments selected and strategies employed by the fund fail to produce the intended results, the fund could underperform in comparison to other funds with similar objectives and investment strategies.

Risks of stock investing Stocks generally fluctuate in value more than bonds and may decline significantly over short time periods. There is a chance that stock prices overall will decline because stock markets tend to move in cycles, with periods of rising and falling prices. The value of a stock in which the fund invests may decline due to general weakness in the stock market or because of factors that affect a particular company or industry.

Any investments in the stocks of privately held companies and newly public companies involve greater risks than investments in stocks of companies that have traded publicly on an exchange for extended time periods. There is significantly less information available about these companies’ business models, quality of management, earnings growth potential, and other criteria that are normally considered when evaluating the investment prospects of a company. Private placements and other restricted securities held by the fund are generally considered to be illiquid and are difficult to value since there are no market prices and less overall financial information available. The adviser evaluates a variety of factors when assigning a value to these holdings, but the determination involves some degree of subjectivity and the fund’s value may differ from the value assigned by other mutual funds holding the same security.

Investment style risk Different investment styles tend to shift in and out of favor depending on market conditions and investor sentiment. The fund’s growth approach to investing could cause it to underperform other stock funds that employ a different investment style. Growth stocks tend to be more volatile than certain other types of stocks, and their prices may fluctuate more dramatically than the overall stock market. A stock with growth characteristics can have sharp price declines due to decreases in current or expected earnings and may lack dividends that can help cushion its share price in a declining market.

Market capitalization risk Investing primarily in issuers within the same market capitalization category carries the risk that the category may be out of favor due to current market conditions or investor sentiment. Because the fund invests primarily in securities issued by small-cap companies, it is likely to be more volatile than a fund that focuses on securities issued by larger companies. Small-sized companies often have less experienced management, narrower product lines, more limited financial resources, and less publicly available information than larger companies. In addition, smaller companies are typically more sensitive to changes in overall economic conditions and their securities may be difficult to trade.

Industry risk To the extent the fund invests in specific industries or sectors, it may be more susceptible to developments affecting those industries and sectors. For example, the fund may at times have significant investments in technology companies, which could result in the fund performing poorly during a downturn in one or more of the industries that heavily impact technology companies. Technology companies can be adversely affected by, among other things, intense competition, earnings disappointments, and rapid obsolescence of products and services due to technological innovations or changing consumer preferences.

Foreign investing risk This is the risk that the fund’s investments in foreign securities may be adversely affected by local, political, social, and economic conditions overseas, greater volatility, reduced liquidity, or decreases in foreign currency values relative to the U.S. dollar.
Performance
The bar chart showing calendar year returns and the average annual total returns table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing how much returns can differ from year to year and how the fund’s average annual returns for certain periods compare with the returns of a relevant broad-based market index, as well as with the returns of one or more comparative indexes that have investment characteristics similar to those of the fund. The fund’s performance information represents only past performance (before and after taxes) and is not necessarily an indication of future results.

The fund can also experience short-term performance swings, as shown by the best and worst calendar quarter returns during the years depicted.
New Horizons Fund
Calendar Year Returns
Bar Chart
  Quarter
 Ended
 Total
Return
Best Quarter   6/30/09  20.25%
Worst Quarter 12/31/08 -25.97%
In addition, the average annual total returns table shows hypothetical after-tax returns to demonstrate how taxes paid by a shareholder may influence returns. After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as a 401(k) account or individual retirement account. In some cases, the figure shown for “returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares” may be higher than the figure shown for “returns before taxes” because the calculations assume the investor received a tax deduction for any loss incurred on the sale of shares.
Average Annual Total Returns

Periods ended
December 31, 2015
Average Annual Total Returns - Investor Class - T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc. 4.50% 15.42% 10.73%
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc. | Returns after taxes on distributions 2.71% 13.26% 9.28%
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc. | Returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares 4.01% 12.27% 8.69%
Russell 2000 Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) (1.38%) 10.67% 7.95%
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) 1.38% 12.57% 7.31%
Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) (4.41%) 9.19% 6.80%
Updated performance information is available through troweprice.com or may be obtained by calling 1-800-225-5132.