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Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG) short interest & options flow

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Principal Financial Group reported Q3 results on October 29, and the setup going in told a clear story: short sellers had been cutting exposure for six weeks, options traders were relaxed, and analysts had spent October trimming targets without changing their broadly neutral stance. The most dramatic shift in the data has been on the short side. Short interest peaked near 9.9…

Latest pulse8 Oct 2026

PFG put-call ratio surges to 0.5271, hitting 4.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.314, signaling heavy options demand for downside protection.

$112.66-0.13% 1d+0.61% 1w+0.63% 1mClose: 3 Nov 2026
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Market cap
$23.93B
Next earnings
11 Feb 2027
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Key data as of 4 Nov 2026

ORTEX chart of Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG) share price and short interest (% of free float), six months to November 3, 2026

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    PFG put-call ratio surges to 0.5271, hitting 4.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.314, signaling heavy options demand for downside protection.

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