Principal Financial Group PFG Return on assets
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Principal Financial Group’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Principal Financial Group’s 10-Q, filed April 29, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Principal Financial Group's return on assets?
- Principal Financial Group (PFG) reported return on assets of 0.5% in Q1 2026.
- How has Principal Financial Group's return on assets changed year-over-year?
- Principal Financial Group's return on assets increased by 38.4% year-over-year, from 0.3% to 0.5%.
- What is the long-term trend for Principal Financial Group's return on assets?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Principal Financial Group's return on assets has grown at a -9.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 2.3% to 1.6%.
- What does return on assets mean?
- How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
- How do you interpret return on assets?
- Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
- How does return on assets compare across companies?
- Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.