PFG·Principal Financial Group, Inc.
PFG|Earnings Snapshot
EPS
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3'26 | $2.50 | - | - |
| Q2'26 | $2.36 | $2.50 | +5.9% |
| Q1'26 | $2.06 | $2.07 | +0.3% |
| Q4'25 | $2.25 | $2.19 | -2.5% |
| Q3'25 | $2.20 | $2.10 | -4.5% |
| Q2'25 | $1.97 | $2.16 | +9.6% |
Revenue
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3'26 | $4.3B | - | - |
| Q2'26 | $4.1B | $4.0B | -3.7% |
| Q1'26 | $4.2B | $3.5B | -16.0% |
| Q4'25 | $4.1B | $4.5B | +9.5% |
| Q3'25 | - | $3.9B | - |
| Q2'25 | - | $3.7B | - |
PFG|Monthly Returns
Market Data
PFG Stock Snapshot
- Market cap
- 25.44B
- P/E ratio
- 16.3
- Day range
- $115.82 – $118.25
- News sentiment
- 74/100 · Bullish
- Analyst target
- $109.58 (-6.1%)
- Consensus
- Hold · 24 analysts
Trend, momentum and range position line up bullish on PFG at the moment. Sector peers are worth watching - large caps in Financial Services tend to move together on rotation.
Behaviour On Record
What PFG's own history says about today's numbers
- Realized volatility (21d)
- 25.8% 51st pct
- Below its peak
- 0.0%
- vs 200-day average
- +20.3%
- Up days (1y)
- 55%
Principal Financial Group, Inc. is currently running 25.8% 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 51st percentile — close to its own typical level, against a typical reading of 25.5%. 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 at its running peak. Across 8 full years on file its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -22.1%, with the deepest at -57.6% in 2020 — so highs have historically been given back before they were extended.
Price sits +20.3% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 91st percentile — a wider gap than this stock usually carries. Over the past year PFG closed higher on 55% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a rising streak.
On September specifically: over 8 years of records, PFG finished the month higher 4 of 8 times, with a median return of +0.7% and an average of +0.4%. 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 133 of 2,188 sessions (6.1% 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 2,189 daily closes between 2017-12-18 and 2026-09-03, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against PFG's own 9-year history, not a peer group or index.
Sector Rotation
Is money rotating into or out of PFG's sector?
Principal Financial Group, Inc. sits in the Financials sector, currently ranked 6th of 11 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (weakening).
- Sector rank
- #6 of 11
- Sector state
- Weakening
- Sector rotation score
- 70
PFG Competitive Positioning
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