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CPHYX

High Yield Fund

Actively managedBondsOpen-end fund
Principal Funds, Inc: CPHYX · CCHIX · PHYTX · PHYFXHoldings as of Apr 30, 2026Filed Jun 25, 2026

Actively managed U.S. bond fund

As of its 2026 Q2 report, High Yield Fund held 448 positions with $6.43B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 7.7% of the fund. The CPHYX share class costs 0.9% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, CPHYX returned 6.1%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q3 it added 47 new positions and exited 49.

2026 Q2 holdings and allocationChanges are against the previous quarter, 2026 Q2Headline fees and returns use the CPHYX share class
Expense ratio · CPHYX
0.9%
$90 a year for every $10,000 invested
0.52% – 1.69% across the 4 classes
$6.43B
The whole fund, all share classes
448 holdings
7.7%in the top 10
Weight held in the ten largest holdings
Top 25 hold 16.4%
Return, 1 year · CPHYX
+6.1%
With dividends, to May 2026
3 yr total +25.9% · 5 yr total +22.4%
What this fund is
Objective, as filed

The Fund seeks to provide a high level of current income.

Strategy, summarised

The fund invests at least 80% of assets in below-investment-grade bonds and bank loans rated Ba1 or lower by Moody's or BB+ or lower by S&P Global, selecting securities that meet these thresholds to generate high current income. It also holds investment-grade bank loans and foreign securities. Because security selection depends on ratings assigned by external agencies, the fund's holdings will shift when those ratings change.

What you own

per cent of the fund
CompanyWeightValue
Principal Funds, Inc - Government Money Market Fund - Class R-6
1.26%
$80.75M
Energy Transfer LP
6.50% floating · due 2056-02-15
0.82%
$52.44M
Smyrna Ready Mix Concrete LLC
6.00% · due 2028-11-01
0.77%
$49.20M
EchoStar Corp
10.75% · due 2029-11-30
0.76%
$49.01M
Jazz Securities DAC
4.38% · due 2029-01-15
0.72%
$46.59M
Freedom Mortgage Holdings LLC
9.13% · due 2031-05-15
0.71%
$45.54M
Victra Holdings LLC / Victra Finance Corp
8.75% · due 2029-09-15
0.69%
$44.59M
California Buyer Ltd / Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure PLC
6.38% · due 2032-02-15
0.68%
$43.49M
Global Aircraft Leasing Co Ltd
8.75% · due 2027-09-01
0.67%
$43.05M
1261229 BC Ltd Term Loan B
9.90% floating · due 2030-10-08
0.66%
$42.51M
Showing 1–10 of 448 · the top 10 are 7.74% of the fund, the top 25 are 16.43%

The 200 largest of 448 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.

What the fund is made of

Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.

100.76%
of net assets
Bonds91.72%
Loans5.01%
Cash & short-term4.01%
Stocks0.03%
Derivatives0.00%

Look-through blends 1 underlying fund; 0.0% of NAV was not looked through and stays direct-classified. The blend is as of 2025Q4, one or more quarters before the direct holdings (2026Q2).

By sector

Other
49.8%
International
15.8%
Financials
4.9%
Consumer Discretionary
4.7%
10 other sectors
24.8%

How it has done

Total return, dividends reinvested · to May 2026

CPHYX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested

1 year
+6.08%
3 years
+25.93%
Cumulative, not per year
5 years
+22.38%
Cumulative, not per year
Largest decline in 3 years
-2.33%
From a previous high to a later low
Cumulative return, last three years· Aug 2023 – May 2026

Volatility over the last 12 months: 2.66%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.

Jun 2026 and Jul 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.

The 4 share classes hold the same portfolio

Share classExpense ratio1 year3 years5 yearsWorst fall
0.90%+6.08%+25.93%+22.38%-2.33%
1.69%+5.27%+22.92%+17.67%-2.43%
0.61%+6.43%+26.91%+24.25%-2.30%
0.52%+6.55%+27.30%+24.67%-2.29%

These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 6.99pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.40pp a year — not a difference in what they own.

Fees & fund details

High Yield Fund is an actively managed U.S. bond fund.

Asset class
Bonds
Region
United States
Management
Actively managed
Fund type
Open-end fund
Credit quality
High yield
Rate sensitivity
Short duration
Expense ratio, by class
0.52% – 1.69%· CPHYX 0.90%
Portfolio turnover
40.30% a year · as of 2026 Q1

Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.

Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.

Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.

What changed this quarter

2026 Q3 vs 2026 Q2

Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.

47 new· the largest 8

Comstock Resources Inc
Noble Finance II LLC
Multi-Color Corp
Discovery Global Holdings Inc
Solaris Energy Infrastructure LLC
UBS Group AG
CoreLogic Inc
Talos Production Inc

49 exited· the largest 8

DISH Network Corp
Discovery Global Holdings Inc
Kioxia Holdings Corp
Dotdash Meredith Inc
Block Inc
UBS Group AG
Seagate Data Storage Technology Pte Ltd
Discovery Communications LLC

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-04-30

Avg coupon
6.94%
Avg maturity
5.45 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

12%
floating
Fixed rate88.1%
Floating rate11.6%
Zero-coupon or unclassified0.4%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

<1yUnknown
<1y1.2%
1-3y16.8%
3-5y34.4%
5-10y41.7%
10y+3.1%
Unknown2.9%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: 0.37% · $23.11M · 8 positions
In arrears: 0.07% · $4.44M · 5 positions
Paid in kind: 0.51% · $31.57M · 4 positions

These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.

Risk profile

Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2

More of this fund’s sensitivity sits in credit spreads than in interest rates — a rate rally that comes with a credit selloff works against it.

2.84 yr
approx. move per 100bp
2.93 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.

≈ -6.0%
of value
Credit spreads51%
Interest rates49%

Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+2.93
yrs total
High yield+2.75 yr
Investment grade+0.18 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.

Interest rate2.84 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.05 yr2%
1 yr0.14 yr5%
5 yr1.99 yr70%
10 yr0.63 yr22%
30 yr0.03 yr1%
Credit spread2.93 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.05 yr2%
1 yr0.14 yr5%
5 yr2.06 yr70%
10 yr0.65 yr22%
30 yr0.03 yr1%

The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.

Show the numbers
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo+0.05+0.00+0.05$1.9k$29.2k
1 yr+0.14+0.01+0.13$5.5k$84.9k
5 yr+1.99+0.13+1.93$80.6k$1.24m
10 yr+0.63+0.04+0.61$25.6k$394.0k
30 yr+0.03+0.00+0.03$1.3k$19.7k

Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.

A newer credit-spread reading (2026Q3) is on file. This page holds one quarter across every figure on it, so that one appears here next quarter.

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