How is Principal Financial (PFG) doing?
Principal Financial is a company in the asset management industry, based in Des Moines, IA, worth $23.0B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Middling
Principal Financial shares are up 31% over the past year, 13 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Exhausted Rally. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 82nd percentile on market beat, the 49th on staying power and the 40th on business growth. It appears on 3 of our dashboards.
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Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Exhausted Rally
Has beaten the market erratically on a soft business, and sellers have taken over.
Exhausted Rally this month; Speculative Pop before that.
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How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Banks, 79 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Regional and money-center banks — the rate-and-credit trade.
Principal Financial is +31% over the past year, against +6% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 6th of 79 in Banks.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Principal Financial typically moves 2.2% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 85% of large US stocks.
PFG on our dashboards
Every question where Principal Financial appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with PFG highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| What moved today, and why? What’s leading | 91Unusual | 30 of 30 | Today −2.3% · × normal day 1.1× |
| Which stocks keep winning? Leading stocks | 9332 of 52 wks | 35 of 60 | vs S&P, 1Y +15 pts · Rank steadiness 49 · P3 score 54 |
| Which dividends are safe? Dividends and buybacks | 69Safe | 12 of 80 | Yield 2.8% · Paid out of earnings 43% · Reliable cash 61 |
Go deeper on Stox
PFG’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see PFG’s full profile on Stox.
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