During the last session, Principal Financial Group Inc (NASDAQ:PFG)’s traded shares were 0.81 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.00. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $80.37, reflecting an intraday loss of -1.51% or -$1.23. The 52-week high for the PFG share is $91.97, that puts it down -14.43 from that peak though still a striking 14.91% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $68.39. The company’s market capitalization is $18.02B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.12 million shares, and the average trade volume was 1.31 million shares over the past three months.
Principal Financial Group Inc (PFG) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.87. PFG has a Sell rating from 2 analyst(s) out of 5 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 1 suggest Overweight, and 0 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Principal Financial Group Inc (NASDAQ:PFG) trade information
Principal Financial Group Inc (PFG) registered a -1.51% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -1.51% in intraday trading to $80.37, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.78%, and it has moved by 4.70% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 3.82%. The short interest in Principal Financial Group Inc (NASDAQ:PFG) is 5.21 million shares and it means that shorts have 4.94 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $69, which implies a decrease of -16.48% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $69 and $69 respectively. As a result, PFG is trading at a premium of 14.15% off the target high and 14.15% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 6.12%. While earnings are projected to return 16.20% in 2025, the next five years will return 12.97% per annum.
PFG Dividends
Principal Financial Group Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-24. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Principal Financial Group Inc is 2.96, with the dividend yield indicating at 3.68 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 3.62%.
Principal Financial Group Inc (NASDAQ:PFG)’s Major holders
Principal Financial Group Inc insiders own 1.11% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 75.85%, with the float percentage being 76.70%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1145.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 27.75 million shares (or 11.869% of all shares), a total value of $2.18 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 19.76 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 8.453% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $1.55 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Principal Financial Group Inc (PFG) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 7.13 shares. This amounts to just over 2.56 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $573.01 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 5.84, or about 2.10% of the stock, which is worth about $469.69 million.
