shares of principal financial group inc pfg rose 201 to 7158 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 062 to 472579 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 055 to 3595056 principal financial group inc closed 272 short of its 52week high 7430 which the company achieved on november 24th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as aflac inc afl rose 089 to 5769 assurant inc aiz rose 038 to 15228 and aegon nv adr aeg rose 445 to 493 trading volume 14 m remained 216831 below its 50day average volume of 16 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use