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Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG)

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The Company is a provider of retirement savings, investment and insurance products and services.

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What the Community Thinks

Total Members

177 Outperforms
42 Underperforms
 

All-Stars

48 Outperforms
9 Underperforms
 

Wall Street

4 Outperforms
2 Underperforms
 

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Ticker Tags

Financials (1255), Mid Cap (610), Cyclical (3415), S&P 500 (499), Value (1901), Des Moines (4), Insurance (166), Iowa (9)
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Principal Financial Group, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $21.45
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $0.00
Previous Close: $22.19
Daily Range: $20.89 - $22.82
52-Week Range: $5.41 - $30.87
Volume: 6,365,076
Market Cap: $6.84B
P/E Ratio: 8.25
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PFG VS S&P 500 (SPY)

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Top Bull Pitch

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Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG)

Avatar jimmyleroy (< 20) Submitted: 2/20/09 1:39 PM

Solid conservative management, huge upside performance potential in the industry (retirement investments).

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Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG)

Avatar bigpeach (88.17) Submitted: 12/13/08 6:30 PM

Insurers are extremely difficult to value and rely on a lot of assumptions that are now proving overly optimistic.

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 (PFG)

Avatar FocusDude (54.02) Submitted: 8/04/09 10:20 PM : Outperform Start Price: $23.90 PFG Score: -19.16

from WF Advisors Focus Portfolio from 7/28/09
5yr EPS CAGR > 10%

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 (PFG)

Avatar TRGoodvsEvil (< 20) Submitted: 7/04/09 12:52 AM : Outperform Start Price: $17.07 PFG Score: 4.56

2009 World's Most Ethical Companies
http://ethisphere.com/wme2009/

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 (PFG)

Avatar wolfofwllstreet (66.66) Submitted: 6/13/09 9:12 AM : Outperform Start Price: $20.05 PFG Score: -8.30

trading @ 8 times earnings for 2009 and less in 2010, market is improving, AUM should be increasing as we have a rebound year..NO TARP $$!!

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 (PFG)

Avatar marrjoe (< 20) Submitted: 4/17/09 12:13 PM : Outperform Start Price: $13.69 PFG Score: 31.82

its done it before it will do it again


They have a excelent product line that is needed

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 (PFG)

Avatar trx32 (< 20) Submitted: 4/12/09 9:51 PM : Underperform Start Price: $13.50 PFG Score: -31.27

I think it's overvalued right now.. Company is weak.

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TrackMuhlenkamp 24.42 10/29/09 Outperform 1Y $25.22-14.95%+1.93%-16.88 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackJimCramer < 20 11/06/08 Underperform 3W $22.64-5.25%+21.07%+26.32
TrackUBS 87.99 10/31/08 Underperform NS $17.03+25.92%+15.57%-10.35
TrackChrisDavis < 20 06/03/08 Outperform 1Y $50.38-57.43%-20.18%-37.25 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackJohnKeeley < 20 09/30/07 Outperform NS $59.74-64.09%-26.38%-37.72 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackAGEdwards 93.04 04/17/07 Outperform NS $59.23-63.78%-22.87%-40.91

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