Blue Chip Fund
Principal Funds, Inc · 7 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Blue Chip Fund is an actively managed U.S. equity fund. 29% of PBCKX’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 92% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Features
- Non-diversified
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q4
The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.
The fund invests at least 80% of assets in equity securities of large-capitalization companies that the advisor identifies as blue chip firms—typically large, well-established market leaders or top-three companies in their sectors—using fundamental analysis of individual companies and favoring those with growth potential and above-average earnings expectations. The fund also holds foreign equities. Because the fund is non-diversified, it may invest a higher percentage of assets in individual issuers than a diversified fund, so changes in the value of a single investment can cause greater fluctuations in share price.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| PBCKX | 0.69% | 0.66% |
| PBLAX | 0.95% | 0.92% |
| PBLCX | 1.70% | 1.67% |
| PGBEX | 1.16% | 1.13% |
| PGBGX | 0.85% | 0.82% |
| PGBHX | 0.60% | 0.57% |
| PBCJX | 0.78% | 0.75% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 20.90% · as of 2025 Q4
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 99.83% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.40% |
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Information Technology | 32.3% |
| Communication Services | 15.5% |
| Financials | 15.3% |
| Consumer Discretionary | 13.4% |
| 7 smaller | 23.5% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Portfolio growth profile
How much of the fund’s stock holdings are in fast-growing companies · as of 2026 Q2
Share of the fund’s equity (by value) in companies whose trailing five-year revenue — or net-income — growth ranks in the top 25% of U.S. public companies. Foreign and newly-listed holdings are excluded, so the figure covers only part of the book. From SEC filings — not investment advice. How we measure this.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +9.33% | +63.10% | +42.69% | 17.81% | -15.40% | |
| +9.08% | +61.74% | +40.69% | 17.84% | -15.56% | |
| +8.26% | +58.30% | +35.70% | 17.83% | -15.98% | |
| +8.85% | +60.75% | +39.28% | 17.83% | -15.68% | |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
| +9.20% | +62.35% | +41.59% | 17.82% | -15.47% | |
| +9.44% | +63.50% | +43.34% | 17.84% | -15.37% | |
| +9.27% | +62.62% | +41.95% | 17.83% | -15.45% |
May 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSFT | Microsoft CorpMSFT | 12.79% | $450.24 | $1.09B | 2.4M |
| AMZN | Amazon.com IncAMZN | 11.81% | $270.64 | $1.00B | 3.7M |
| NVDA | NVIDIA CorpNVDA | 10.13% | $211.14 | $860.16M | 4.1M |
| BN | Brookfield CorpBN | 7.17% | $45.59 | $609.07M | 13.4M |
| AVGO | Broadcom IncAVGO | 5.13% | $446.77 | $435.46M | 974.7K |
| V | Visa IncV | 4.92% | $326.36 | $417.33M | 1.3M |
| MA | Mastercard IncMA | 4.92% | $493.98 | $417.23M | 844.6K |
| TDG | TransDigm Group IncTDG | 4.90% | $1,258.32 | $415.90M | 330.5K |
| GOOG | Alphabet Inc - C SharesGOOG | 4.73% | $376.43 | $401.43M | 1.1M |
| META | Meta Platforms IncMETA | 4.53% | $632.51 | $384.45M | 607.8K |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-05-31 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 71.03% of net assets, top 25 95.69%, across 38 issuers.
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