Principal Financial Group Inc. Stock Rises Monday, Still Underperforms Market

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22nd Century Group, Inc. is an agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property company. The Company is focused on tobacco harm reduction, reduced nicotine tobacco and improving health and wellness through plant science. In tobacco, hemp/cannabis, and hop plants, it uses various plant breeding technologies, including genetic engineering, gene-editing, and molecular breeding to deliver solutions for the life science and consumer products industries by creating new plants with optimized alkaloid and flavonoid profiles, as well as improved yields and valuable agronomic traits. It has developed very low nicotine content (VLNC) tobacco and cigarettes, which contain 95% less nicotine than conventional tobacco and cigarettes. Its reduced nicotine cigarettes include VLN King and VLN Menthol King. In hemp, the Company is developing hemp varieties with increased levels of certain cannabinoids and other desirable agronomic traits. The Company has an interest in RX Pharmatech Ltd (RXP).

Principal Financial Group Inc. Stock Rises Monday, Still Underperforms Market

5:17 pm ET October 17, 2022 (MarketWatch) Print

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Shares of Principal Financial Group Inc. (PFG) advanced 2.10% to $78.22 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index rising 2.65% to 3,677.95 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 1.86% to 30,185.82. Principal Financial Group Inc. closed $2.14 below its 52-week high ($80.36), which the company achieved on February 10th.

The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Monday, as AFLAC Inc. (AFL) rose 0.85% to $59.63, Assurant Inc. (AIZ) rose 2.83% to $151.52, and Aegon N.V. ADR (AGN.AE) rose 2.26% to $4.07. Trading volume (1.6 M) remained 179,819 below its 50-day average volume of 1.8 M.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet. Data compiled October 17, 2022.

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October 17, 2022 17:17 ET (21:17 GMT)