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Principal Financial Group Inc — 13F Filing & Top Stock Positions (Q2 2026)
Principal Financial Group IncCIK: 0001126328
Diversified strategyMomentum follower
Total reported value
$203.6B
Reporting period: 2026-06-30 · Number of holdings: 4413
PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC disclosed 4413 holdings in its latest 13F filing for the period ending 2026-06-30, with total reported value of $203.6B and a quarterly turnover rate of 22.4%.
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Personality snowflake
- Concentration
- 2.86
- Portfolio Stability
- 22.42
- Momentum
- 76.02
- Sector conviction
- 41.22
- Diversification
- 100
- Sizing Uniformity
- 62.02
Principal Financial Group Inc's disclosed holdings carry a Herfindahl concentration index of 0.007 — mathematically equivalent to about 140 equally-sized positions, well below its 4413 actual disclosed holdings. That gap points to a strategy built around a small core of high-conviction bets rather than broad diversification.
Position sizes vary widely across the portfolio (a coefficient of variation of 3.80), with a handful of outsized bets alongside many smaller positions.
No strong tilt toward either adding to existing winners or initiating outsized new positions was observed in the latest reported quarter.
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Recent moves
View source Form 13F filing on SEC.govAdd LCAP
+1573.5% $1.5B
Add MU
+6.5% $1.4B
Trim CPRT
-96.5% -$1.0B
Trim MSFT
-8.5% -$433.2M
Add AMD
+9.7% $807.1M
Trim CSGP
-78.6% -$606.5M
Holdings Map
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Institutional Game-State Analysis
Core Intent
Principal Financial Group's June-quarter book remains an ultra-diversified, index-like structure — 2,154 holdings, an HHI of just 0.0072, roughly 22% turnover — so the quarter reads as modest repositioning rather than a directional bet. Active adds clustered in semiconductors and AI compute (Micron 0.28%→0.95%, AMD 0.20%→0.58%, Broadcom up to 1.62%, Apple nudged higher, plus a step-change build in LCAP from 0.04% to 0.79%), while selling was concentrated in two niche data-services names, Copart (0.56%→0.02%) and CoStar (0.38%→0.05%), effectively near-exits. NVIDIA shares were trimmed, yet price appreciation lifted its weight from 3.69% to 3.77% — a pattern more consistent with profit-taking into strength than a bearish turn.
Macro & Fundamentals
These flows appear to line up with the persistent AI-infrastructure and memory-upcycle trade — institutional capital continuing to fund compute, networking, and DRAM exposure — and the book's mild +2.6-point momentum tilt is consistent with adding to recent winners. With only one quarter of positioning data, however, this is an inference rather than a confirmed causal claim; the near-exits in data services may reflect valuation discipline or broader sector rotation, and the filing itself states no motive. Roughly 12% of reported value also falls outside the mapped sector breakdown, so sector weights should be treated as approximate.
Blind Spots / Risks
The sharpest structural vulnerability sits outside the tech adds entirely: real estate at 11.7% of the book — several multiples of a typical broad-market weight — which, layered on a 14% financials allocation, leaves close to a quarter of assets hostage to the rate path. Should yields back up or stay higher for longer, that combination could dominate fund-level drawdowns regardless of how the semiconductor additions perform.
The summary above is AI-generated directly from this institution's Form 13F filings on the SEC's EDGAR system and reflects historical holdings only. It is not investment advice — verify the details against the original filing linked below. View the original 2026-06-30 Form 13F filing on SEC.gov
Top 10 holdings by weight
Full holdings list this quarter
Showing top 200 holdings (of 4413 total)
| # | Ticker | Issuer | Asset Subclass | Weight | Weight Change | Shares Change | 4Q Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVDA | Nvidia CORP | Stock-Tech | 3.77% | +0.08% | -3.01% | |
| 2 | AAPL | Apple Inc | Stock-Tech | 3.05% | +0.16% | +0.51% | |
| 3 | MSFT | Microsoft CORP | Stock-Tech | 2.52% | -0.45% | -8.50% | |
| 4 | AMZN | Amazon.com Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 2.00% | -0.13% | -10.78% | |
| 5 | GOOGL | Alphabet Inc-cl A | Stock-Comm Services | 1.82% | +0.11% | -6.74% | |
| 6 | AVGO | Broadcom Inc | Stock-Tech | 1.62% | +0.18% | +0.04% | |
| 7 | GOOG | Alphabet Inc-cl C | Stock-Comm Services | 1.24% | +0.14% | -0.14% | |
| 8 | USMC | Principal US Mega-cap ETF | ETF-Other | 1.18% | +0.14% | +7.12% | |
| 9 | BN | Brookfield CORP | Stock-Financials | 1.15% | -0.23% | -13.73% | |
| 10 | META | Meta Platforms Inc-class A | Stock-Comm Services | 1.12% | -0.15% | -2.05% | |
| 11 | TDG | Transdigm Group Inc | Stock-Industrials | 1.12% | -0.13% | -15.13% | |
| 12 | WELL | Welltower Inc | Stock-Real Estate | 1.09% | +0.08% | +2.16% | |
| 13 | HEI-A | Heico Corp-class A | Stock-Other | 0.98% | -0.02% | -13.08% | |
| 14 | EQIX | Equinix Inc | Stock-Real Estate | 0.97% | -0.07% | -3.96% | |
| 15 | MU | Micron Technology Inc | Stock-Tech | 0.95% | +0.67% | +6.48% | |
| 16 | HLT | Hilton Worldwide Holdings In | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.95% | -0.12% | -11.61% | |
| 17 | LYV | Live Nation Entertainment In | Stock-Comm Services | 0.90% | — | -10.17% | |
| 18 | IVV | Ishares Core S&p 500 ETF | ETF-Large Cap & Growth | 0.89% | +0.03% | -1.21% | |
| 19 | KKR | Kkr & Co Inc | Stock-Financials | 0.89% | -0.07% | +0.87% | |
| 20 | VMC | Vulcan Materials Co | Stock-Materials | 0.79% | -0.18% | -17.70% | |
| 21 | LCAP | Principal Cptl Apprec S3 ETF | ETF-Other | 0.79% | +0.75% | +1573.48% | |
| 22 | V | Visa Inc-class A Shares | Stock-Financials | 0.79% | +0.01% | -3.20% | |
| 23 | TSLA | Tesla Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.78% | +0.02% | -0.58% | |
| 24 | JPM | Jpmorgan Chase & Co | Stock-Financials | 0.78% | — | -2.78% | |
| 25 | LLY | Eli Lilly & Co | Stock-Healthcare | 0.74% | +0.14% | +2.37% | |
| 26 | PLD | Prologis Inc | Stock-Real Estate | 0.68% | -0.06% | -2.98% | |
| 27 | CBRE | Cbre Group Inc - A | Stock-Real Estate | 0.68% | -0.03% | +3.79% | |
| 28 | TECK | Teck Resources Ltd-cls B | Stock-Materials | 0.67% | +0.06% | +4.34% | |
| 29 | ORLY | O'reilly Automotive Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.64% | -0.25% | -21.35% | |
| 30 | VTR | Ventas Inc | Stock-Real Estate | 0.61% | -0.06% | -8.90% | |
| 31 | MLM | Martin Marietta Materials | Stock-Materials | 0.60% | -0.06% | +1.07% | |
| 32 | MA | Mastercard Inc - A | Stock-Financials | 0.59% | -0.06% | -3.32% | |
| 33 | BRK-B | Berkshire Hathaway Inc-cl B | Stock-Other | 0.59% | -0.02% | +0.07% | |
| 34 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | Stock-Tech | 0.58% | +0.38% | +9.68% | |
| 35 | ENTG | Entegris Inc | Stock-Tech | 0.53% | +0.16% | +1.20% | |
| 36 | COST | Costco Wholesale CORP | Stock-Consumer Staples | 0.50% | -0.11% | -4.22% | |
| 37 | BRO | Brown & Brown Inc | Stock-Financials | 0.50% | -0.04% | +0.72% | |
| 38 | TSM | Taiwan Semiconductor-sp Adr | Stock-Tech | 0.46% | +0.11% | +0.23% | |
| 39 | AMT | American Tower CORP | Stock-Real Estate | 0.46% | -0.09% | -2.91% | |
| 40 | PSC | Principal US Small-cap ETF | ETF-Other | 0.44% | +0.06% | +2.88% | |
| 41 | VEEV | Veeva Systems Inc-class A | Stock-Healthcare | 0.43% | +0.04% | +20.23% | |
| 42 | PIEQ | Principal Intl Eqty ETF | ETF-Other | 0.43% | -0.13% | -21.91% | |
| 43 | EXR | Extra Space Storage Inc | Stock-Real Estate | 0.43% | -0.02% | -5.80% | |
| 44 | BIP | Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. | Stock-Utilities | 0.43% | -0.09% | -11.87% | |
| 45 | YUMC | Yum China Holdings Inc | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.42% | -0.17% | -6.53% | |
| 46 | JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | Stock-Healthcare | 0.42% | -0.02% | +0.37% | |
| 47 | H | Hyatt Hotels CORP - Cl A | Stock-Consumer Disc | 0.42% | +0.06% | -6.17% | |
| 48 | SU | Suncor Energy Inc | Stock-Energy | 0.42% | -0.20% | -9.93% | |
| 49 | LRCX | Lam Research CORP | Stock-Tech | 0.41% | +0.20% | +4.63% | |
| 50 | XOM | Exxon Mobil CORP | Stock-Energy | 0.40% | -0.15% | -1.43% |
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Portfolio Performance
Performance for Q3 2026
+3.4%
Performance Last 4 Quarters
+13%
- Stdev
- +13.1%
- Beta
- +0.95
- Alpha
- -3.9%
- Max Drawdown
- -8.9%
- Annualized Perf
- +15.4%
- Batting Avg vs S&P
- +33.3%
- Sortino
- +2.18
- Stutzer
- +0.34
- Treynor
- +0.16
- Sterling
- +0.93
- Calmar
- +1.74
- Information Ratio
- -1.1
- Tracking Error
- +4.4%
- Stdev Down
- +7%
- Winning Months %
- +63.9%
- Losing Months %
- +36.1%
- Best 12 Months
- +34.2%
- Worst 12 Months
- +5%
- Efficiency Ratio
- +0.48
- Sharpe
- +1.16
- Stdev Sectors
- +6.5%
- Skewness
- +0.05
- Kurtosis
- -0.11
- Upside Potential
- +3.79
Reported value over time
Sector allocation
Sector allocation over time
Quarterly history
| Period | Holdings | Total value | Stability | Top holdings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | 4413 | $203.6B | 22 | ||
| 2026 Q1 | 4452 | $187.2B | 19 | ||
| 2025 Q4 | 4456 | $195.9B | 15 | ||
| 2025 Q3 | 4552 | $198.3B | 26 | ||
| 2025 Q2 | 4603 | $189.2B | 0 | ||
| 2025 Q1 | 4516 | $178.2B | 100 | ||
| 2024 Q4 | 4570 | $183.4B | 0 | ||
| 2024 Q3 | 4490 | $181.5B | 0 | ||
| 2024 Q2 | 4671 | $168.4B | 0 | ||
| 2024 Q1 | 4772 | $170.1B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q4 | 4741 | $156.8B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q3 | 4763 | $139.2B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q2 | 4731 | $146.3B | 0 | ||
| 2023 Q1 | 4728 | $139.9B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q4 | 4776 | $132.8B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q3 | 4800 | $125.8B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q2 | 4697 | $135.2B | 0 | ||
| 2022 Q1 | 4055 | $158.6B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q4 | 4075 | $167.5B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q3 | 4140 | $153.3B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q2 | 4254 | $154.8B | 0 | ||
| 2021 Q1 | 4029 | $141.7B | 0 | ||
| 2020 Q4 | 3801 | $135.0B | 19 | ||
| 2020 Q3 | 3558 | $118.8B | 100 | ||
| 2020 Q2 | 3635 | $112.8B | 0 | ||
| 2020 Q1 | 3391 | $90.3B | 33 | ||
| 2019 Q4 | 3490 | $120.0B | 13 | ||
| 2019 Q3 | 3666 | $113.4B | 12 | ||
| 2019 Q2 | 3535 | $111.2B | 14 | ||
| 2019 Q1 | 3593 | $107.4B | 19 | ||
| 2018 Q4 | 3551 | $93.8B | 24 | ||
| 2018 Q3 | 3758 | $113.5B | 15 | ||
| 2018 Q2 | 3831 | $108.8B | 100 | ||
| 2018 Q1 | 3648 | $104.0B | 0 | ||
| 2017 Q4 | 3731 | $108.6B | 16 | ||
| 2017 Q3 | 3649 | $103.1B | 15 | ||
| 2017 Q2 | 3781 | $99.8B | 27 | ||
| 2017 Q1 | 3607 | $83.1B | 19 | ||
| 2016 Q4 | 3647 | $78.8B | 100 | ||
| 2016 Q3 | 3487 | $75.7B | 0 | ||
| 2016 Q2 | 3476 | $71.7B | 100 | ||
| 2016 Q1 | 3496 | $68.9B | 0 | ||
| 2015 Q4 | 3524 | $67.3B | 22 | ||
| 2015 Q3 | 3516 | $63.6B | 20 | ||
| 2015 Q2 | 3497 | $67.1B | 18 | ||
| 2015 Q1 | 3497 | $67.1B | 20 | ||
| 2014 Q4 | 3487 | $64.4B | 23 | ||
| 2014 Q3 | 3587 | $58.9B | 15 | ||
| 2014 Q2 | 3646 | $59.5B | 21 | ||
| 2014 Q1 | 3748 | $56.1B | 19 | ||
| 2013 Q4 | 3760 | $53.6B | 20 | ||
| 2013 Q3 | 3742 | $48.4B | 21 | ||
| 2013 Q2 | 3733 | $45.1B | 0 |
Holding changes this quarter
Principal Financial Group Inc's most significant position changes for 2026-06-30: New buy: Ascendis Pharma A/s; Sold out: Ccc Intelligent Solutions Ho (CCC); Sold out: Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND); New buy: ; Sold out: Honeywell International Inc (HON).
Showing top 200 changes by size (of 2284 total)
| # | Ticker | Issuer | Weight Change | Shares Change | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LCAP | Principal Cptl Apprec S3 ETF | +0.8% | +1573.48% | Add |
| 2 | MU | Micron Technology Inc | +0.7% | +6.48% | Add |
| 3 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +0.4% | +9.68% | Add |
| 4 | INTC | Intel CORP | +0.2% | +1.29% | Add |
| 5 | LRCX | Lam Research CORP | +0.2% | +4.63% | Add |
| 6 | AVGO | Broadcom Inc | +0.2% | +0.04% | Add |
| 7 | AMAT | Applied Materials Inc | +0.2% | +2.96% | Add |
| 8 | VALE | Vale Sa-sp Adr | +0.2% | +453.25% | Add |
| 9 | AAPL | Apple Inc | +0.2% | +0.51% | Add |
| 10 | ENTG | Entegris Inc | +0.2% | +1.20% | Add |
| 11 | SNDK | Sandisk CORP | +0.2% | +14.15% | Add |
| 12 | MRVL | Marvell Technology Inc | +0.2% | +10400.53% | Add |
| 13 | GOOG | Alphabet Inc-cl C | +0.1% | -0.14% | Trim |
| 14 | USMC | Principal US Mega-cap ETF | +0.1% | +7.12% | Add |
| 15 | LLY | Eli Lilly & Co | +0.1% | +2.37% | Add |
| 16 | KLAC | Kla CORP | +0.1% | +852.35% | Add |
| 17 | QGEN | Qiagen N.V. | +0.1% | +120281.69% | Add |
| 18 | PREF | Pri Spe Pre Sec Acti-usd Inc | +0.1% | +4180.84% | Add |
| 19 | GOOGL | Alphabet Inc-cl A | +0.1% | -6.74% | Trim |
| 20 | TSM | Taiwan Semiconductor-sp Adr | +0.1% | +0.23% | Add |
| 21 | WDC | Western Digital CORP | +0.1% | +1.36% | Add |
| 22 | ✓ | Ascendis Pharma A/s | +0.1% | NEW | New buy |
| 23 | SPOT | Spotify Technology S.A. | +0.1% | +62.00% | Add |
| 24 | CAT | Caterpillar Inc | +0.1% | -0.54% | Trim |
| 25 | TOST | Toast Inc-class A | +0.1% | +90.09% | Add |
| 26 | UNH | Unitedhealth Group Inc | +0.1% | +3.34% | Add |
| 27 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks Inc | +0.1% | -4.97% | Trim |
| 28 | PRM | Perimeter Solutions Inc | +0.1% | +11.94% | Add |
| 29 | SBAC | Sba Communications CORP | +0.1% | +722.66% | Add |
| 30 | ✓ | +0.1% | NEW | New buy | |
| 31 | NVDA | Nvidia CORP | +0.1% | -3.01% | Trim |
| 32 | WELL | Welltower Inc | +0.1% | +2.16% | Add |
| 33 | GE | General Electric | +0.1% | +4.89% | Add |
| 34 | ESS | Essex Property Trust Inc | +0.1% | +25.47% | Add |
| 35 | CSCO | Cisco Systems Inc | +0.1% | -1.52% | Trim |
| 36 | DKS | Dick's Sporting Goods Inc | +0.1% | +113.89% | Add |
| 37 | C | Citigroup Inc | +0.1% | +33.97% | Add |
| 38 | DASH | Doordash Inc - A | +0.1% | +190.00% | Add |
| 39 | MAC | Macerich Co/the | +0.1% | +463.50% | Add |
| 40 | MCO | Moody's CORP | +0.1% | +35.08% | Add |
| 41 | STX | Seagate Technology Holdings plc | +0.1% | +2.40% | Add |
| 42 | TECK | Teck Resources Ltd-cls B | +0.1% | +4.34% | Add |
| 43 | PSC | Principal US Small-cap ETF | +0.1% | +2.88% | Add |
| 44 | H | Hyatt Hotels CORP - Cl A | +0.1% | -6.17% | Trim |
| 45 | APH | Amphenol Corp-cl A | +0.1% | +5.51% | Add |
| 46 | AMH | American Homes 4 Rent- A | +0.1% | +9.26% | Add |
| 47 | SUNB | Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc | +0.1% | +20.02% | Add |
| 48 | ICLR | ICON Public Limited Company | +0.1% | -10.89% | Trim |
| 49 | GEV | GE Vernova Inc | +0.1% | +4.09% | Add |
| 50 | WAT | Waters CORP | +0.1% | +9.30% | Add |
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Filing History
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FAQ
What is Principal Financial Group Inc and what type of investor is it?
Principal Financial Group Inc is an investment manager that files SEC Form 13F quarterly, disclosing its U.S. public equity holdings to regulators. As of the most recent reporting period (2026-06-30), the firm manages a tracked equity portfolio valued at approximately $203.6B, spread across 4413 disclosed positions.
What are Principal Financial Group Inc's largest equity positions?
Based on the latest 13F filing, Principal Financial Group Inc's top holdings by market value are:
1. Nvidia CORP (NVDA) — $7.7B (3.8%)
2. Apple Inc (AAPL) — $6.2B (3.0%)
3. Microsoft CORP (MSFT) — $5.1B (2.5%)
4. Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) — $4.1B (2.0%)
5. Alphabet Inc-cl A (GOOGL) — $3.7B (1.8%)
What changes did Principal Financial Group Inc make in its most recent portfolio filing?
In the latest reported quarter, Principal Financial Group Inc made 200 notable position adjustments: 7 new positions were initiated, 90 existing holdings were added to, 97 positions were partially reduced, and 6 were completely exited. The largest of these moves: New buy: Ascendis Pharma A/s; Sold out: Ccc Intelligent Solutions Ho (CCC); Sold out: Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND); New buy: ; Sold out: Honeywell International Inc (HON)
What sectors does Principal Financial Group Inc focus on?
Principal Financial Group Inc is concentrated in the following sectors based on its current disclosed equity portfolio:
• Information Technology: 25.9%
• Financials: 14.0%
• Real Estate: 11.7%
• Consumer Discretionary: 10.4%
• Industrials: 9.7%
• Communication Services: 8.0%
Investment Profile
Principal Financial Group Inc returned an annualized 15.4% over the trailing 36 months — underperforming the S&P 500 by 3.9 points — based on a reconstructed track record of its disclosed 13F positions, with a beta of 0.95 (roughly in line with the market) and a 33% quarterly batting average against the index.
Its portfolio is broadly diversified and moderately active.
Its turnover score has risen from 0 to 22 over the past 4 quarters — a shift toward more active trading.
It has added to its MU position over the past two quarters (+$1.6B, now $1.9B), while trimming MSFT over the same stretch (-$2.1B, still holding $5.1B).
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