PFG·Principal Financial Group, Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

21.2% 30th pct

Below its peak

-9.1%

vs 200-day average

+5.2%

Up days (1y)

53%

Principal Financial Group, Inc. is currently running 21.2% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against PFG's own 9 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 30th percentile — on the quiet side for this stock, against a typical reading of 25.4%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.

PFG is trading -9.1% below its running peak. Across 8 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -22.1%, and the deepest was -57.6% in 2020. The current pullback is therefore shallower than what this stock gives back in a typical year, which is context worth having before treating it as a dislocation.

Price sits +5.2% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 54th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year PFG closed higher on 53% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 9 years of records, PFG finished the month higher 3 of 9 times, with a median return of -3.2% and an average of -1.8%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +6.1% on average, its weakest March at -5.2%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.

Overnight risk is measurable too: PFG has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 134 of 2,216 sessions (6.0% of the time), with the largest gaps running +12.4% and -16.6%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

Across the last 3 dated reports on file, PFG moved an average of 1.3% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 3 times, with a median move of +1.0% and a largest of -1.7%.

All figures computed from 2,217 daily closes between 2017-12-18 and 2026-10-14, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against PFG's own 9-year history, not a peer group or index.