Principal Financial Group, Inc.

PFG stock score: 53/100

$107.94 · +1.01% · Scored Oct 20, 2026

Technical
59
Fundamental
46
News
14

The reading

Principal Financial Group (PFG) scores 53 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 39% of Financial Services stocks and 50% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 59, fundamentals 46.

Among the fundamentals, Fund Ownership at 100 and Debt to Equity at 95 score highest, while Earnings Growth (Annual) at 4 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 36 and contrarian oscillators 66 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is negative at 14; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 52 to 70, and it is down 5 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward PFG’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

46

Pulling it up

  • Fund Ownership100

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Debt to Equity95

    Debt-to-Equity ratio measures financial leverage by comparing total debt to shareholder equity.

  • EV/Revenue90

    EV/Revenue compares the whole company's value, debt included, with its sales.

Holding it back

  • Earnings Growth (Annual)4

    Annual earnings growth tracks year-over-year profit expansion.

  • EBITDA Margins5

    EBITDA margins measure operating profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

  • Gross Margins5

    Gross margins show profitability after cost of goods sold.

38 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

42

Pulling it up

  • Candlestick Patterns100

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

  • Williams %R (28)92

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

  • Bollinger Bands (50)87

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

Holding it back

  • Ichimoku Cloud0

    Ichimoku Cloud is a comprehensive indicator showing support/resistance, trend direction, and momentum.

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)0

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • Know Sure Thing (KST)4

    Know Sure Thing (KST) combines multiple rate-of-change calculations to identify long-term trend reversals.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
14

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly551
Daily423
Weekly592
Monthly722
Quarterly732

Composite score, last 90 days

05010053Jul 25, 2026Oct 20, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 58Jul 26, 2026: 58Jul 27, 2026: 53Jul 28, 2026: 54Jul 29, 2026: 70Jul 30, 2026: 70Jul 31, 2026: 63Aug 2, 2026: 57Aug 3, 2026: 57Aug 5, 2026: 56Aug 6, 2026: 56Aug 7, 2026: 57Aug 8, 2026: 57Aug 9, 2026: 57Aug 10, 2026: 57Aug 11, 2026: 56Aug 12, 2026: 55Aug 13, 2026: 58Aug 14, 2026: 57Aug 15, 2026: 57Aug 16, 2026: 57Aug 17, 2026: 56Aug 18, 2026: 56Aug 19, 2026: 55Aug 20, 2026: 56Aug 22, 2026: 55Aug 23, 2026: 55Aug 24, 2026: 56Aug 25, 2026: 56Aug 26, 2026: 55Aug 27, 2026: 56Aug 28, 2026: 55Aug 29, 2026: 55Aug 30, 2026: 55Aug 31, 2026: 54Sep 1, 2026: 55Sep 2, 2026: 57Sep 3, 2026: 58Sep 4, 2026: 58Sep 5, 2026: 57Sep 6, 2026: 57Sep 7, 2026: 57Sep 8, 2026: 57Sep 9, 2026: 56Sep 10, 2026: 56Sep 11, 2026: 57Sep 12, 2026: 56Sep 13, 2026: 56Sep 14, 2026: 57Sep 15, 2026: 58Sep 16, 2026: 57Sep 17, 2026: 56Sep 18, 2026: 57Sep 19, 2026: 57Sep 20, 2026: 57Sep 21, 2026: 57Sep 22, 2026: 55Sep 23, 2026: 57Sep 24, 2026: 56Sep 25, 2026: 56Sep 26, 2026: 56Sep 27, 2026: 56Sep 28, 2026: 56Sep 29, 2026: 55Sep 30, 2026: 54Oct 1, 2026: 54Oct 2, 2026: 54Oct 3, 2026: 54Oct 4, 2026: 54Oct 5, 2026: 54Oct 6, 2026: 52Oct 7, 2026: 52Oct 8, 2026: 53Oct 9, 2026: 52Oct 10, 2026: 52Oct 11, 2026: 52Oct 12, 2026: 52Oct 13, 2026: 52Oct 14, 2026: 52Oct 15, 2026: 53Oct 16, 2026: 53Oct 17, 2026: 53Oct 18, 2026: 53Oct 19, 2026: 52Oct 20, 2026: 53
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Key facts

Market cap
$23.1B
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Asset Management
Beta
0.87
Risk grade (1–10)
8
Next earnings
Oct 26, 2026

Asset Management peers

CompanyMarket capScore
NTRS Northern Trust$30.3B58
RJF Raymond James Financial$29.8B57
TROW T. Rowe Price Group$21.8B52
TPG TPG$17.3B52
BEN Franklin Templeton$15.9B53
CRBG Corebridge Financial$15.6B54

Questions

What is PFG's stock score today?

PFG scores 53/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 20, 2026: technical 59, fundamental 46, and news sentiment 14, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is PFG a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 53 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the PFG score calculated?

100 weighted scorers feed it today: 38 fundamental, scored against Financial Services ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.