Principal Financial Group Inc

PFGNASDAQ · USD
113.62USD-2.85 (-2.46%)
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Principal Financial Group Inc (PFG) Implied Volatility Current

PFG implied volatility is 28%. IV Rank is 48%, placing current premiums in the middle of their 52-week range.

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Tracking PFG implied volatility helps you identify when options premiums on Principal Financial Group Inc are historically cheap or expensive, and where the best trades are hiding. Principal Financial Group Inc implied volatility reflects the market's expectation of future price movement: when PFG IV rises, option premiums increase, creating opportunities for sellers, and when it drops, buyers can find cheaper contracts. Use our scanner to monitor Principal Financial Group Inc's implied volatility current levels in real time and filter for high-probability trades.

Implied volatility is derived from option prices using models like Black-Scholes and represents the annualized expected move of an underlying stock. For PFG, tracking metrics like PFG IV rank helps traders understand whether current implied volatility is historically high or low. IV rank compares today's reading against the past year's range — a high rank on PFG signals rich premiums and potential mean-reversion, while a low rank may favor long options strategies.

Principal Financial Group, Inc. provides retirement, asset management, and insurance products and services to businesses, individuals, and institutional clients worldwide. The company operates through Retirement and Income Solutions, Principal Global Investors, Principal International, and U.S. Insurance Solutions segments. The Retirement and Income Solutions segment provides a portfolio of asset accumulation products and services for retirement savings and income. It offers products and services for defined contribution plans, including 401(k) and 403(b) plans, defined benefit pension plans, nonqualified executive benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans, equity compensation, and pension risk transfer services; individual retirement accounts; investment only products; and mutual funds, individual variable annuities, and bank products.

The Principal Global Investors segment provides equity, fixed income, real estate, and other alternative investments, as well as asset allocation, stable value management, and other structured investment strategies. The Principal International segment offers pension accumulation products and services, mutual funds, asset management, income annuities, and life insurance accumulation products, as well as voluntary savings plans in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, and Southeast Asia. The U.S. Insurance Solutions segment provides specialty benefits, such as group dental and vision insurance, group life insurance, and group and individual disability insurance, as well as administers group dental, disability, and vision benefits; and individual life insurance products comprising universal, variable universal, indexed universal, and term life insurance products in the United States. It also offers insurance solutions for small and medium-sized businesses and their owners, as well as executives. Principal Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 1879 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Implied Volatility

IV Rank
48.41%IV Rank
Moderate

IV is below its typical range - premiums look reasonable for buyers.

Implied Volatility (30d)27.72%

IV Rank48.41%

Historical Volatility (30d)24.12%

IV - HV+3.60%

As of September 21, 2026

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