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Principal Financial Group (LTS:0KO5) Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow : 0.02 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Principal Financial Group Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow?

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow assesses how much of a company’s cash flow from operations is being devoted to capital expenditure. It’s also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not.

Principal Financial Group's Capital Expenditure for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $-16.40 Mil. Its Cash Flow from Operations for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $977.30 Mil.

Hence, Principal Financial Group's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.02.


Principal Financial Group Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Principal Financial Group's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Principal Financial Group Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Chart

Principal Financial Group Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow
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Principal Financial Group Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Principal Financial Group's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow

For the Asset Management subindustry, Principal Financial Group's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Principal Financial Group's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Principal Financial Group's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Principal Financial Group's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow falls into.


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Principal Financial Group Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Calculation

Principal Financial Group's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow=- Capital Expenditure / Cash Flow from Operations
=- (-68.8) / 4602.9
=0.01

Principal Financial Group's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow=- Capital Expenditure / Cash Flow from Operations
=- (-16.4) / 977.3
=0.02

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Principal Financial Group  (LTS:0KO5) Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Explanation

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio assesses how much of a company’s Cash Flow from Operations is being devoted to Capital Expenditure. It is a good indicator in terms of how much the company is focused on growth. In general, a high Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio indicates that the company is investing more in physical assets and is focused on growth and expansion. Conversely, lower ratio could indicate that a company has reached maturity and is no longer pursuing aggressive growth.

Moreover, the ratio is also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not. If the ratio is large, then the company tends to be capital intensive. Lower ratio suggests that it’s a capital-light business. The ratio can be combined with ROIC % to identify whether the company is an asset-light business that has a high return on invested capital. This is one question investors commonly ask to see if a company qualifies as a good company.


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Principal Financial Group Business Description

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Address
711 High Street, Des Moines, IA, USA, 50392
Principal Financial Group Inc is a financial services provider. It offers various financial products and services including retirement, asset management, and workplace benefits and protection solutions to individuals and institutional clients. The company, along with its subsidiaries, operates in the following reportable segments; Retirement and Income Solutions, Principal Asset Management, and Benefits and Protection. Maximum revenue is generated from the Retirement and Income Solutions segment which provides workplace savings and retirement solutions, banking, trust and custodial services, individual variable annuities (including RILAs), pension risk transfer, and investment services to businesses, their employees, and other individuals.

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