Percentile rank is how an investment’s return, risk, or other metric compares with other investments in its Morningstar Category. For example, if an investment’s total return absolute rank is 20 in a ...

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Percentages and percentiles are two ways of expressing data. While percentages are a way of expressing a part of a whole, percentiles are a way of ranking data. This sentence may sound confusing, so ...