Principal Financial Group PFG Return on equity
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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 equity?
- Principal Financial Group (PFG) reported return on equity of 13.6% in Q1 2026.
- How has Principal Financial Group's return on equity changed year-over-year?
- Principal Financial Group's return on equity increased by 39.8% year-over-year, from 9.7% to 13.6%.
- What is the long-term trend for Principal Financial Group's return on equity?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Principal Financial Group's return on equity has grown at a 1.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 42% to 43.9%.
- What does return on equity mean?
- How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
- How do you interpret return on equity?
- Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
- How does return on equity compare across companies?
- Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.