Principal Financial (PFG) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Principal Financial (PFG) has disclosed Return on Invested Capital for 17 consecutive years, with 0.02% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Return on Invested Capital fell 13.0% to 0.02% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 0.02% through Dec 2025, down 13.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 0.02% for FY2025, 24.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.02% at Principal Financial, down from 0.27% in the prior quarter.
  • The five-year high for Return on Invested Capital was 1.93% in Q1 2022, with the low at 1.21% in Q4 2022.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.24%, with a median of 0.2% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak annual rise in Return on Invested Capital hit 178bps in 2022, while the deepest fall reached -110bps in 2022.
  • Over 5 years, Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.11% in 2021, then tumbled by -1016bps to 1.21% in 2022, then surged by 123bps to 0.27% in 2023, then plummeted by -47bps to 0.15% in 2024, then plummeted by -88bps to 0.02% in 2025.
  • According to Business Quant data, Return on Invested Capital over the past three periods came in at 0.02%, 0.27%, and 0.28% for Q4 2025, Q3 2025, and Q2 2025 respectively.