Principal Financial Group, Inc. is a global financial company. Co. offers businesses, individuals and institutional clients a range of financial products and services, including retirement, asset management and insurance through its diverse family of financial services companies. Co.'s segments include retirement and income solutions, principal asset management, and benefits and protection. The Retirement and Income Solutions segment offers workplace savings and retirement solutions, banking, trust and custodial services, individual variable annuities, and pension risk transfer, among others.
When researching a stock like Principal Financial Group, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from PFG Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for PFG stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the PFG 200 day moving average ("PFG 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the PFG 50 day moving average ("PFG 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Principal Financial Group. |
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