| T. Rowe Price Capital Opportunity Fund, Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T. Rowe Price Capital Opportunity Fund Investor Class I Class Advisor Class R Class SUMMARY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment Objective | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The fund seeks to provide long-term capital growth by investing primarily in U.S. common stocks. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fees and Expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund. You may also incur brokerage commissions and other charges when buying or selling shares of the fund, which are not reflected in the table. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fees and Expenses of the Fund Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Annual fund operating expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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, that your investment has a 5% return each year, and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. The example also assumes that an expense limitation currently in place is not renewed; therefore, the figures have been adjusted to reflect fee waivers or expense reimbursements only in the periods for which the expense limitation arrangement is expected to continue. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 the fund’s 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 36.8% of the average value of its portfolio. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investments, Risks, and Performance Principal Investment Strategies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The strategy attempts to create a portfolio with similar characteristics to the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index® (S&P 500 Index) with the potential to provide excess returns relative to the Index. The fund uses a disciplined portfolio construction process whereby it weights each sector and industry approximately the same as the S&P 500 Index. Within each sector and industry, the weighting of individual fund holdings can vary significantly from their weighting within the S&P 500 Index. The fund, which may be considered an “enhanced index” fund, attempts to outperform the S&P 500 Index by overweighting those stocks that are viewed favorably relative to their weighting in the Index, and underweighting or avoiding those stocks that are viewed negatively. The fund may also purchase stocks that are not in the S&P 500 Index, but at least 80% of the fund’s total assets will normally be invested in stocks that are in the S&P 500 Index at the time of purchase. A portfolio oversight team is responsible for the overall structure of the fund and for developing rules for portfolio construction. The portfolio oversight team seeks to take advantage of T. Rowe Price’s fundamental research by assigning equity analysts to select stocks for the fund within industries where they have focused expertise. The equity analysts are directly responsible for selecting stocks and determining the stocks’ weights within their industry-specific portfolios. The analysts actively select stocks from the industries they cover based on fundamental research, which considers various factors such as the quality of a company’s management team and its business franchise, earnings growth potential of a company and its market sector, and valuation. The fund’s portfolio oversight team maintains responsibility for evaluating the performance of the overall portfolio and the analysts’ stock selections, tracking and aligning the fund’s risk characteristics with those of the S&P 500 Index, monitoring the portfolio’s exposures to industries and sectors, managing cash flows into and out of the fund, and ensuring overall compliance by the analysts with the fund’s portfolio construction principles. The portfolio oversight team is responsible for selecting stocks that meet the fund’s investment criteria, but have not yet been assigned to an analyst. Because the fund is designed to have similar characteristics to the S&P 500 Index, there is expected to be a relatively close correlation between the fund’s performance and the performance of the Index in both rising and falling markets. However, when compared to a fund that follows a strict indexing strategy, there is a much greater chance that the fund’s performance will deviate from the Index (referred to as “tracking error”) and the potential for higher portfolio turnover, which increases the possibility of taxable distributions to shareholders and results in higher transaction costs to the fund. The fund will generally remain fully invested (less than 5% in cash reserves) and seeks to be sector neutral when compared to the S&P 500 Index. While the majority of assets will be invested in large-capitalization U.S. common stocks, small- and mid-capitalization and foreign stocks may also be purchased in keeping with fund objectives. Securities may be sold for a variety of reasons, such as to secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities. The fund may at times invest significantly in certain sectors, such as the information technology sector. 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 risks The investment adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, value, or potential appreciation of the fund’s investments may prove to be incorrect. The fund could underperform in comparison to other funds with a similar benchmark or similar objectives and investment strategies if the fund’s overall investment selections or strategies fail to produce the intended results. Risks of U.S. 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 U.S. stock market, such as when the U.S. financial markets decline, or because of factors that affect a particular company or industry. Investment style risks Different investment styles tend to shift in and out of favor depending on market conditions and investor sentiment. Because the fund may hold stocks with either growth or value characteristics, it could underperform other stock funds that take a strictly growth or value approach to investing when one style is currently in favor. Growth stocks tend to be more volatile than the overall stock market and can have sharp price declines as a result of earnings disappointments. Value stocks carry the risk that the market will not recognize their intrinsic value or that they are actually appropriately priced at a low level. Market capitalization risks The fund’s focus on large companies subjects the fund to the risks that larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies, especially during strong economic periods, and that they may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. Because the fund may invest in companies of any size, its share price could be more volatile than a fund that invests only in large companies. Small and medium-sized companies typically have less experienced management, narrower product lines, more limited financial resources, and less publicly available information than larger companies. Foreign investing risks 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. Sector concentration risks At times, the fund may have a significant portion of its assets invested in securities of companies conducting business in a broadly related group of industries within an economic sector. Companies in the same economic sector may be similarly affected by economic or market events, making the fund more vulnerable to unfavorable developments in that economic sector than funds that invest more broadly. For example, the fund may have a significant portion of its assets invested in securities of companies in the information technology sector. Companies in the information technology sector 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The following performance information provides some indication of the risks of investing in 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 following bar chart illustrates how much returns can differ from year to year by showing calendar year returns and the best and worst calendar quarter returns during those years for the fund’s Investor Class. Returns for other share classes vary since they have different expenses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The following table shows the average annual total returns for each class of the fund that has been in operation for at least one full calendar year, and also compares the returns 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. In addition, the 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 an IRA. After-tax returns are shown only for the Investor Class and will differ for other share classes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Average Annual Total Returns Periods ended December 31, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Updated performance information is available through troweprice.com. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||