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SUMMARY Prospectus August 1, 2026
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| T. ROWE PRICE | ||||
| TFIX | Capital Appreciation Fixed Income ETF | |||
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Principal U.S. Listing Exchange: NYSE Arca, Inc. Exchange-traded fund (ETF) shares are not individually redeemable.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
Before you invest, you may want to review the fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the fund and its risks. You can find the fund’s prospectus, shareholder reports, and other information about the fund online at troweprice.com/prospectus. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-638-5660, by sending an e-mail request to info@troweprice.com, or by contacting your financial intermediary. This Summary Prospectus incorporates by reference the fund’s prospectus, dated August 1, 2026, as amended or supplemented, and Statement of Additional Information, dated August 1, 2026, as amended or supplemented.
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| SUMMARY | 1 |
Investment Objective(s)
The fund seeks to provide income, and secondarily, capital appreciation.
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell 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 or example below.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
| Annual fund operating expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) |
| Management fees | 0.37 | % | ||
| Other expenses | — | |||
| Total annual fund operating expenses | 0.37 | |||
Example This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your shares at the end of those periods, that your investment has a 5% return each year, and that the fund’s fees and expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
| 1 Year | 3 Years | ||||||
| $ | 38 | $ | 119 | ||||
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. Because the fund commenced operations on or following the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover information provided for the fund.
Investments, Risks, and Performance
Principal Investment Strategies
The fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in fixed income securities. Any derivatives that provide exposure to the investment focus suggested by the fund’s name, or to one or more market risk factors associated with the investment focus suggested by the fund’s name, are counted (as applicable) toward compliance with the fund’s 80% investment policy.
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Normally, the fund invests its assets in a variety of U.S. and non-U.S. debt securities across the following primary sectors:
| ● | Below investment-grade corporate debt (which is BB and lower, or an equivalent credit quality); |
| ● | Bank loans, mostly below investment-grade floating rate leveraged loans (loans where borrowing companies often have significantly more debt than equity); |
| ● | Investment-grade corporate debt (which is BBB and higher, or an equivalent credit quality), including bonds issued by corporations located in the U.S. and other developed market countries; and |
| ● | Government debt, including bonds issued by the U.S. government and its agencies or by governments of other developed market countries and agency mortgage-backed securities. |
Under normal circumstances, the fund generally expects to be equally weighted in each of the categories. However, the proportion of fund assets allocated to each of these sectors will vary with market conditions and the fund’s assessment of each sector’s relative attractiveness as investment opportunities.
The fund follows a bottom-up, fundamental security selection process with respect to each fixed income instrument. When deciding whether to adjust duration, credit risk exposure, or allocations among the various sectors, the advisor generally focuses on finding holdings with the best risk-adjusted return potential while emphasizing income generation. The adviser may examine characteristics and relative prospects among government and agency obligations; bank loans; and corporate bonds, including those rated noninvestment grade (BB and lower, or an equivalent rating).
The fund may purchase fixed income instruments of any maturity and there are no overall maturity or duration restrictions. The fund’s duration will generally shift in response to current interest rates and any expected interest rate changes. Under normal circumstances, the fund is expected to maintain an effective duration between two to six years.
While the fund will invest primarily in U.S. dollar-denominated securities, the fund may also invest in foreign securities in keeping with its objective.
The fund may sell assets for a variety of reasons, including in response to a change in the original investment considerations or to limit losses, adjust the characteristics of the overall portfolio, or redeploy assets into different opportunities.
Principal Risks
As with any fund, there is no guarantee that the fund will achieve its objective(s). 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, which may be even greater in unfavorable or uncertain market conditions, are summarized as follows:
Fixed income markets: Economic and other market developments can adversely affect the fixed income securities markets. At times, participants in these markets may develop concerns about the ability of certain issuers of debt instruments to make timely principal and interest payments, or they may develop concerns about the ability of financial institutions that make markets in certain debt instruments to facilitate an orderly market. Those concerns could cause increased volatility and reduced liquidity in particular securities or in the overall fixed income markets and the related derivatives markets. A lack of liquidity or other adverse credit market conditions may hamper the fund’s ability to sell the debt instruments in which it invests or to find and purchase suitable debt instruments.
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Interest rates: A rise in interest rates typically causes the price of a fixed rate debt instrument to fall and its yield to rise. Conversely, a decline in interest rates typically causes the price of a fixed rate debt instrument to rise and the yield to fall. The prices and yields of inflation-linked bonds are directly impacted by the rate of inflation as well as changes in interest rates. Generally, funds with longer weighted average maturities and durations carry greater interest rate risk. Changes in monetary policy made by central banks and/or governments are likely to affect the interest rates or yields of the securities in which the fund invests.
Credit quality: An issuer of a debt instrument could suffer an adverse change in financial condition that results in a payment default (failure to make scheduled interest or principal payments), rating downgrade, or inability to meet a financial obligation. Securities that are rated below investment grade carry greater risk of default and should be considered speculative.
Junk bonds: Investments in bonds that are rated below investment grade, commonly referred to as junk bonds, and loans that are rated below investment grade, expose the fund to greater volatility and credit risk than investments in securities that are rated investment grade. As a result, bonds and loans rated below investment grade carry a higher risk of default and should be considered speculative.
Bank loans: Investments in bank loans expose the fund to additional risks beyond those normally associated with more traditional debt instruments. The fund’s ability to receive payments in connection with a loan depends primarily on the financial condition of the borrower and whether or not a loan is secured by collateral, although there is no assurance that the collateral securing a loan will be sufficient to satisfy the loan obligation. In addition, bank loans often have contractual restrictions on resale, which can delay the sale and adversely impact the sale price. Transactions involving bank loans may have significantly longer settlement periods than more traditional investments (settlement can take longer than 7 days) and often involve borrowers whose financial condition is troubled or highly leveraged, which increases the risk that the fund may not receive its proceeds in a timely manner or that the fund may incur losses in order to pay redemption proceeds to its shareholders. In addition, loans are not registered under the federal securities laws like stocks and bonds, so investors in loans have less protection against improper practices than investors in registered securities.
Leveraged loans: Investments in floating rate leveraged loans (also known as bank loans or senior loans) that are rated below investment grade (typically BB or lower), which are issued by companies that often carry significantly more debt than equity, reflect a highly leveraged financial structure that increases the risk of default or loss. These loans offer floating interest rates that adjust with market rates (typically quarterly or monthly), providing protection against rising interest rates and near-zero duration risk, but they also carry greater credit risk than investment-grade bonds due to the borrower’s limited financing options and higher leverage. Because the issuing companies are often rated below investment grade, they may face higher default risk and price volatility, and their performance can be correlated with high yield bonds, declining in the same periods where high yield bonds decline. However, these loans have a senior, secured position in the company’s capital structure, which historically results in higher recovery rates in the event of default compared to high yield bonds, though recovery rates may vary depending on market conditions and the time period. Investors should also note that floating rate loans may be subject to legal or contractual resale restrictions, trade less frequently, and experience value impairments during liquidation.
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Agency mortgage-backed securities (Agency MBS): Agency MBS are residential mortgage-backed securities issued or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies or government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), specifically Fannie Mae (FNMA), Freddie Mac (FHLMC), or Ginnie Mae (GNMA). These securities are backed by pools of mortgages that meet strict underwriting guidelines and are guaranteed against credit loss by the issuing agency. Investments in Agency MBS are subject to interest rate risk, prepayment and extension risk, credit risk, and the risk of underperformance by the underlying pools of assets. Agency MBS tend to be more volatile and adversely impacted by changes in interest rates than other fixed income securities, particularly those that do not have prepayment features or call options. The rate of prepayments on the underlying pools of mortgages will affect the price and volatility of an Agency MBS and may unexpectedly shorten or lengthen the effective maturity of the security and weighted average maturity of the fund beyond what was anticipated at the time of purchase. Increasing prepayments due to falling interest rates could reduce the fund’s potential for price gains and require the fund to reinvest proceeds at lower interest rates, reducing the fund’s total return and yield and resulting in a loss if prices fall below the level that the fund paid for them. Rising interest rates or lack of refinancing opportunities could increase the fund’s sensitivity to interest rate changes and its potential for price declines. Although Agency MBS are generally supported by the implicit or explicit guarantee of the U.S. government (through issuers such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae), there is no assurance that the guarantors will meet their obligations. Agency MBS may also be subject to liquidity risk, as the ease with which they can be traded may vary in different market conditions.
Market conditions: The value of the fund’s investments may decrease, sometimes rapidly or unexpectedly, due to factors affecting an issuer held by the fund, particular industries, or the overall securities markets. A variety of factors can increase the volatility of the fund’s holdings and markets generally, including geopolitical developments (such as trade and tariff arrangements, sanctions, and cybersecurity attacks), recessions, inflation, rapid interest rate changes, war, military conflict, acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and outbreaks of infectious illnesses or other widespread public health issues (such as pandemics) and related governmental and public responses. Certain events may cause instability across global markets, including reduced liquidity and disruptions in trading markets, while some events may affect certain geographic regions, countries, sectors, and industries more significantly than others. Government intervention in markets may impact interest rates, market volatility, and security pricing. These adverse developments may cause broad declines in market value due to short-term market movements or for significantly longer periods during more prolonged market downturns.
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Active management: The fund’s overall investment program and holdings selected by the fund’s investment adviser may underperform the broad markets, relevant indices, or other funds with similar objectives and investment strategies.
Authorized Participant: Only Authorized Participants may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the fund. The fund has a limited number of institutions that may act as Authorized Participants. Authorized Participants have no obligation to submit creation or redemption orders, and there is no assurance that Authorized Participants will establish or maintain an active trading market for shares. To the extent an Authorized Participant cannot or will not engage in creation and redemption transactions, shares may be more likely to trade at a premium or discount to the fund’s NAV and to face trading halts and/or delisting. If the fund effects its creations or redemptions at least partially or fully for cash, rather than in-kind securities, the fund may incur certain costs, including brokerage costs in connection with investing cash received and may recognize capital gains in connection with cash redemptions.
ETF shares trading: Shares of the fund are listed for trading on a national securities exchange and are bought and sold in the secondary market at market prices. The market prices of shares are expected to fluctuate in response to changes in the fund’s NAV, the value of the fund’s holdings, and supply and demand for shares. Disruptions to creations and redemptions, significant market volatility, potential lack of an active trading market for the shares (including through a trading halt), or other factors may widen bid-ask spreads and result in the shares trading significantly above (at a premium) or below (at a discount) to NAV or to the value of the fund’s holdings. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.
New fund: Because the fund is new, it may have more limited operating history, fewer shareholders, and less assets than funds that have been in existence for longer periods. It may be more difficult to evaluate the investment program and portfolio manager of a fund with a limited performance track record. Due to the fund’s size, large shareholder purchases or redemptions could require the fund to buy or sell holdings at unfavorable times or maintain greater cash reserves than desired, create tax implications for the fund and its shareholders, and make it difficult to invest fully in accordance with the fund’s investment program.
Cybersecurity breaches: The fund could be harmed by intentional cyberattacks and other cybersecurity breaches, including unauthorized access to the fund’s assets, confidential information, or other proprietary information. In addition, a cybersecurity breach could cause one of the fund’s service providers or financial intermediaries to suffer unauthorized data access, data corruption, or loss of operational functionality. A cybersecurity breach could result in a loss for the fund or affect its ability to operate as intended either temporarily or for an extended period, which may include limits on the ability to obtain pricing information for the fund’s investments, calculate its net asset value, and satisfy redemptions.
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Performance
Because the fund commenced operations on or following the date of this prospectus, there is no historical performance information shown here. Performance history will be presented after the fund has been in operation for one full calendar year.
Current performance information will be available through troweprice.com.
Management
Investment Adviser T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (T. Rowe Price or Price Associates)
Investment Subadviser T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. (Price Investment Management)
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Name |
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Managed Fund Since |
Joined Investment Adviser |
| David Giroux | Co-Portfolio Manager and Cochair of Investment Advisory Committee | 2026 | 1998 |
| Paul Massaro | Co-Portfolio Manager and Cochair of Investment Advisory Committee | 2026 | 2003 |
| Brian Solomon | Co-Portfolio Manager | 2026 | 2015 |
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The fund issues and redeems shares at NAV only with Authorized Participants and only in large blocks of 25,000 shares (each, a “Creation Unit”). Individual fund shares may not be purchased or redeemed directly with the fund. An Authorized Participant may purchase or redeem a Creation Unit of the fund each business day that the fund is open in exchange for the delivery of a designated portfolio of in-kind securities and/or cash.
Individual fund shares may be purchased and sold only on a national securities exchange through brokers. Shares are listed for trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. and because the shares will trade at market prices rather than at NAV, shares may trade at prices greater than NAV (at a premium), at NAV, or less than NAV (at a discount). You may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares of the fund (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares of the fund (ask) when buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the “bid-ask spread”). All purchases and sales are made pursuant to this prospectus. Please refer to the fund’s website for additional information (troweprice.com).
Tax Information
The fund declares dividends, if any, and pays them monthly. A distribution may consist of ordinary dividends, capital gains, and return of capital. Sales of fund shares and distributions by the fund generally may be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains unless you invest through a tax-deferred account (in which case you will be taxed upon withdrawal from such account).
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Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase shares of the fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), T. Rowe Price and its affiliates may pay the intermediary for the sale of fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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