Principal Financial (PFG) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Principal Financial (PFG) has disclosed Return on Equity for 17 consecutive years, with 0.5% as the latest value for Q3 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Equity fell 46.0% to 0.5% in Q3 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Sep 2025 was 0.5%, a 46.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2024 number at 0.17%, up 15.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Equity was 0.5% for Q3 2025 at Principal Financial, down from 0.02% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Equity ranged from a high of 0.58% in Q4 2022 to a low of 0.5% in Q3 2025.
  • A 5-year average of 0.14% and a median of 0.12% in 2024 define the central range for Return on Equity.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Equity: soared 46bps in 2022, then crashed -53bps in 2023.
  • Principal Financial's Return on Equity stood at 0.12% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 390bps to 0.58% in 2022, then tumbled by -91bps to 0.05% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 210bps to 0.17% in 2024, then tumbled by -395bps to 0.5% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for PFG's Return on Equity are 0.5% (Q3 2025), 0.02% (Q2 2025), and 0.08% (Q1 2025).