Wellington Management analyzed by categorizing dividend-paying stocks into quintiles based on their dividend payouts. The top 20%, labeled as the first quintile, comprised the highest dividend ...

The first quintile represents the lowest fifth of the data (1% to 20%), the second quintile represents the second fifth (21% to 40%), and so on to 100%. A statistical average falls in the middle ...

The first-quintile stocks had an average dividend payout ratio of 74%, while the second quintile had a more moderate 40% average payout ratio. Maintaining a high payout ratio, ...

Notably, the second quintile of S&P 500 dividend stocks outperformed top dividend payers. In fact, the second-quintile group beat their first-quintile peers by a whopping 60%. Investor Alert: Our ...

The highest dividend yielding stocks typically fall into the first quintile, which represents the top 20% of dividend yield stocks in a given market or index.