PFG

Principal Financial Group, Inc. ·Nasdaq Global Select·Financial Services
113.77 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
14.5%
Brown Bear Score
21.9%
Business Conviction Score
30.1%
Position Health Score
21.7%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +47.3% · range 77.24–115.41

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

OCF / assets 1.3%
FCF / revenue 29.0%
Gross margin 47.3%
ROIC 0.3%
Forward P/E 11.0

This company does not report capital expenditure in the standard filing tag, so free cash flow cannot be derived and FCF/assets is not shown — common for asset managers, REITs, insurers and utilities. OCF/assets is shown instead, and it is the other measure Brown Bear's testing found to survive. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 0.6pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Price and forward earnings growth are broadly in step; no strong valuation lean either way.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-26 after the close · consensus EPS 2.54

Q2 23 revenue: 3.56bnQ2 23 net income: 388.80mQ2 23 EPS: 1.58Q3 23 revenue: 4.60bnQ3 23 net income: 1.25bnQ3 23 EPS: 5.10Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 2.69bnQ4 23 net income: -871.70mQ4 23 EPS: -3.56Q1 24 revenue: 4.05bnQ1 24 net income: 532.50mQ1 24 EPS: 2.22Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 4.31bnQ2 24 net income: 353.10mQ2 24 EPS: 1.49Q3 24 revenue: 3.01bnQ3 24 net income: -220.00mQ3 24 EPS: -0.95Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 4.75bnQ4 24 net income: 905.40mQ4 24 EPS: 3.85Q1 25 revenue: 3.70bnQ1 25 net income: 48.10mQ1 25 EPS: 0.21Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 3.67bnQ2 25 net income: 406.20mQ2 25 EPS: 1.79Q3 25 revenue: 3.68bnQ3 25 net income: 213.80mQ3 25 EPS: 0.95Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 4.58bnQ4 25 net income: 517.00mQ4 25 EPS: 2.29Q1 26 revenue: 3.53bnQ1 26 net income: 424.60mQ1 26 EPS: 1.93Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-3.56–5.10, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 3.53bn -4.5% 424.60m 1.93 2.07 +2.3% 2026-04-29
2025-12-31 (derived) 4.58bn -3.7% 517.00m 2.29 2.19 -2.5% 2026-02-18
2025-09-30 3.68bn +22.2% 213.80m 0.95 2.10 -5.4% 2025-10-29
2025-06-30 3.67bn -14.8% 406.20m 1.79 2025-07-30

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±2.1%
On an ordinary two days ±1.2% — filings move it 1.7× as much
Direction 6 up, 6 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q2 22 revenue +88.1% year on yearQ2 22 filed 2022-08-09: price +10.7%Q3 22 revenue +34.4% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-02: price -2.0%Q3 22Q1 23 revenue -9.4% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-03: price -2.8%Q2 23 revenue -46.6% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-02: price +0.3%Q2 23Q3 23 revenue -0.0% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-01: price +4.2%Q1 24 revenue +43.8% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-01: price +1.7%Q1 24Q2 24 revenue +21.2% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-31: price -2.9%Q3 24 revenue -34.5% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-30: price -2.1%Q3 24Q1 25 revenue -8.8% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-30: price -0.7%Q2 25 revenue -14.8% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-30: price -2.9%Q2 25Q3 25 revenue +22.2% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-29: price +0.7%Q1 26 revenue -4.5% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-29: price +0.8%Q1 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-03-31 2026-04-29 -4.5% +0.8% -2.6%
2025-09-30 2025-10-29 +22.2% +0.7% +2.0%
2025-06-30 2025-07-30 -14.8% -2.9% +0.4%
2025-03-31 2025-04-30 -8.8% -0.7% -0.4%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 220.3M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year -3.7%
Change over 3 years -9.5%
Public float $17.70bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 112.06 — 114.91
Protective stop 109.10 (Structure, 3.9% risk)
Support 110.28 (2 touches, 3.2% away)
Resistance 113.78 (0.0% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 0.0% below 113.78, where sellers have turned up before, and 3.2% above 110.28, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 3.9% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 8/22/45 (86% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness17% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 110.64 to 111.92. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days +0.8%
63 days +12.8%
126 days +21.5%
252 days +48.8%
Below 252d high1.4%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway Extreme upside extension above Kalman fair trend; entry risk is elevated.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width8.4% of price
Recent tightest7.0% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 85.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.20×
Band 108.01 — 117.44

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 8% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 85% of the time. When a stock goes quiet like this, its next move tends to look big by comparison. But quiet says nothing about which way it will go: Brown Bear tested calm-before-a-move as a reason to buy, and it did not work.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 109.57–115.412026-07-152026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

Binary-event risk flagged

PFG: binary-event risk suspected -- Term structure inverted (near 32% IV vs far 27% IV, ratio 1.18); Implied move 4.0% is 0.64x the ATR-expected 6.2% over 9d. Options market is pricing a discrete catalyst; technical breakout signals are unreliable until it resolves.

Implied volatility 32% near (9d) · 27% far (65d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.18× near/far
Historical volatility 20%
Implied vs historical 1.58× — Options are priced well above what the stock has actually done
Implied move ±4.0% by 2026-08-21 — Large relative to this stock's normal daily range
Implied move vs ATR 0.64×
Skew Put Skew (2.51×)
Put wall 60.00 (-47.3% away)
Gamma pin 60.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 32% IV vs far 27% IV, ratio 1.18)
  • Implied move 4.0% is 0.64x the ATR-expected 6.2% over 9d

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs more for the next few weeks than for the next few months. Traders usually pay up like that when they know something is coming soon — results, a court ruling, a regulatory decision. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 4.0% in either direction by 2026-08-21. The overall shape suggests they expect a one-off result that lands either well or badly, rather than a gradual drift.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Mixed Rotation Phase

Rotation health 54.1/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 54.1
Rotation strength 75.2
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 96.6 115.8
Stock vs SPY Improving 78.3 111.4
Sector vs SPY Lagging 76.4 91.0

Direction of travel: North-East / strengthening leadership

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+10.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 47.3% (+10.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 29.0% (+19.4)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.010) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.01 -> -0.01) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 18.1 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 18.7 and rising (+2.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.82 (+4.2)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 0.7% (+7.4)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 0.5% (+1.2)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 71.3, 5-day change +16.5 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.05 (+1.0)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 3.4% (+2.1)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 1.9% (+3.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 3.4% (+2.2)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.61 (+3.1)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.54x average)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.37)
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-8.0)
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.14)
  • Gross margin improving by -52.7 pts (+-3.0)
  • ROIC improving by -0.0 pts (+-5.0)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.