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PQIAX — Principal Equity Income A

Data as of 2026-10-02 · US · Dividend · window 2016-10-02 → 2026-10-02 (10.0 years) · returns assume dividends reinvested, net of fund fees · Market Data from Tiingo.com

What the history says

PQIAX
Total return+212.13%
Annualised (CAGR)+12.06%
Volatility (annualised)+15.02%
Sharpe (rf = 0)0.80
Deepest drawdown-37.64%
Drawdown peak → trough2020-01-17 → 2020-03-23
Dividend yield (12m distributions)8.70% (as of 2026-10-02)

Over the 10.0 years to 2026-10-02 the fund returned +212.13% in total (+12.06% a year), with a deepest drawdown of -37.64% from 2020-01-17 to 2020-03-23. Its worst calendar year was 2022 (-10.84%), its best 2019 (+28.43%).

Every calendar year

Calendar-year returns (net of fees, dividends reinvested)
YearPQIAX
2026+10.13%
2025+15.23%
2024+24.73%
2023+10.77%
2022-10.84%
2021+21.91%
2020+6.17%
2019+28.43%
2018-5.38%
2017+20.54%
2016+5.31%

Common questions

How much has PQIAX returned over the last 10 years?

+212.13% in total, which works out to +12.06% a year over the 10 years to 2026-10-02. Both figures assume dividends were reinvested and the fund's own fees were already deducted, so they are what an investor would have kept — before tax.

What was PQIAX's worst year?

2022 — its calendar-year return was -10.84% (net of fees, dividends reinvested). Its best year was 2019 (+28.43%).

How deep was PQIAX's worst drawdown?

-37.64%, from a peak on 2020-01-17 to a trough on 2020-03-23. From that trough it took 238 days (about 7.8 months) to climb back to the earlier peak.

Does PQIAX pay dividends?

Over the last 12 months it distributed 8.70% of its share price (as of 2026-10-02). That is a past distribution, not a promise of future income, and it is already counted in every return figure on this page.

What this page does not say

It does not say PQIAX is a good or bad fund, and it is not a forecast. Returns above are history: they already include dividends and already exclude the fund's own fees. A drawdown of -37.64% means an investor who bought at the peak would have watched that much value disappear before it recovered — how long that takes is the part most tables leave out.

Run your own window, add fees or a second fund: open PQIAX in the tool. History is shown as history, never sold as a forecast.

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