Principal® Ranked #11 on America’s JUST 100 List
DES MOINES, Iowa /3BL/ – Principal Financial Group® has been named as one of America’s Most JUST Companies by JUST Capital, ranking #11 on the 2025 JUST 100 list. This award recognizes Principal® as the industry leader for insurance acknowledging its commitment to serving its workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders.
The JUST Capital 2025 Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies and JUST 100 list celebrate top-performing Russell 1000 companies that are demonstrating leadership in responding to the needs of the American people.
“We are honored to be on the 2025 JUST 100 list, recognizing our dedication to upholding the values of integrity, transparency, and accountability as we work to enable financial security for individuals and businesses alike,” said Deanna Stable, president and CEO of Principal Financial Group. “We’ve made significant progress over the past year to further align and execute against the issues that matter most to our stakeholders – the employees, customers and communities we serve. Delivering for each of these important groups is what matters.”
To produce the 2025 rankings, JUST Capital collected and analyzed corporate data to evaluate the largest public U.S. companies across 17 issues identified through comprehensive, ongoing public opinion research on Americans’ attitudes toward responsible corporate behavior.
“Performance expectations for business leaders today are sky high. The JUST 100 demonstrates how companies can create value for their investors, their key stakeholders, and America more broadly by focusing on core business operations,” says JUST Capital CEO Martin Whittaker. “At the end of the day, it doesn’t have to be that complicated. It’s just business.”
The top 100 companies – the JUST 100 – are determined by scoring performance across the full range of criteria and comparing companies head-to-head. JUST evaluated 940 companies across 5 stakeholders, 17 Issues, and 88 raw data points to produce the 2025 Rankings, featuring the JUST 100 and Industry Leader lists.
About Principal Financial Group®
Principal Financial Group® (Nasdaq: PFG) is a global financial company with nearly 20,000 employees1 passionate about improving the wealth and well-being of people and businesses. In business for 145 years, we’re helping approximately 68 million customers1 plan, protect, invest, and retire, while working to support the communities where we do business, and build a diverse, inclusive workforce. Principal® is proud to be recognized as one of the 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies2, a member of the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, and named as a “Best Places to Work in Money Management3.” Learn more about Principal and our commitment to sustainability, inclusion, and purpose at principal.com.
1 As of September 30, 2024
2 Ethisphere, 2024
3 Pensions & Investments, 2024
The mission of JUST Capital, an independent nonprofit, is to demonstrate how just business – defined by the priorities of the public – is better business. Our goal is to help companies create value for all their stakeholders – their workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders – by focusing on the issues that matter most to Americans. To date, we’ve polled more than 182,000 Americans on the issues they believe companies should prioritize when it comes to just business behavior, and those insights guide our work. We believe that business and markets can and must be a force for the greater good and that by shifting the resources of the $21.6 trillion private sector, we can drive competition to build a better future for all. Our research, rankings, indexes, initiatives, and new offerings like the JUST Jobs Scorecard help track, analyze, incentivize, and scale corporate stakeholder performance. JUST Capital publishes the annual list of America’s Most JUST Companies, the JUST 100, in partnership with CNBC. To learn more, visit: https://justcapital.com/.
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Insurance products issued by Principal National Life Insurance Co (except in NY) and Principal Life Insurance Company®. Plan administrative services offered by Principal Life. Principal Funds, Inc. is distributed by Principal Funds Distributor, Inc. Securities offered through Principal Securities, Inc., member SIPC and/or independent broker/dealers. Referenced companies are members of the Principal Financial Group®, Des Moines, IA 50392. ©2024 Principal Financial Services, Inc.
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