Principal Financial Group
About: Principal Financial Group Inc is a financial services provider. It offers various financial products and services including retirement, asset management, and workplace benefits and protection solutions to individuals and institutional clients. The company, along with its subsidiaries, operates in the following reportable segments; Retirement and Income Solutions, Principal Asset Management, and Benefits and Protection. Maximum revenue is generated from the Retirement and Income Solutions segment which provides workplace savings and retirement solutions, banking, trust and custodial services, individual variable annuities (including RILAs), pension risk transfer, and investment services to businesses, their employees, and other individuals.
Employees: 19,700
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
38% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $11.4M | Put options by funds: $8.31M
25% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 4 [Q1] → 5 (+1) [Q2]
17% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 313 | Existing positions reduced: 268
0.74% more ownership
Funds ownership: 72.82% [Q1] → 73.56% (+0.74%) [Q2]
4% less funds holding
Funds holding: 831 [Q1] → 800 (-31) [Q2]
5% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $13.8B [Q1] → $13.1B (-$750M) [Q2]
15% less first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 82 | Existing positions closed: 97
Research analyst outlook
7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
7 analyst ratings
Morgan Stanley
Bob Huang
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$77
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Underweight
Maintained
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18 Aug 2025 |
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Ryan Krueger
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$88
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Market Perform
Maintained
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4 Aug 2025 |
Wells Fargo
Elyse Greenspan
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$72
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Underweight
Maintained
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30 Jul 2025 |
UBS
John Nadel
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$87
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Neutral
Maintained
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29 Jul 2025 |
JP Morgan
Jimmy Bhullar
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$101
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Overweight
Maintained
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8 Jul 2025 |
Barclays
Alex Scott
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$80
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Underweight
Maintained
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7 Jul 2025 |
Piper Sandler
John Barnidge
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$89
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Overweight
Maintained
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3 Jul 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 7 articles about PFG published over the past 30 days