---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-068734"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PFG"
cik: "0001126328"
company_name: "PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T05:54:36.721388+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Principal warns of unsolicited mini-tender offer at 34.9% below market

## Summary
- Potemkin Limited offers $51.70/share for up to 100,000 shares, 34.91% below $79.43 close on June 30, 2025.
- Offer represents only ~0.0004% of PFG outstanding common stock; company does not endorse it.
- Principal recommends shareholders not tender; those who have may withdraw within 14 days of tender form delivery.
- Offer expires Sept 30, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time; SEC has cautioned investors about below-market mini-tenders.
- Potemkin has made similar mini-tender offers for other companies; PFG is not associated with Potemkin.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-068734
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PFG
- cik: 0001126328
- company_name: PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126328/000110465925068734/0001104659-25-068734-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126328/000110465925068734/tm2521160d1_8k.htm

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