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AT&T’s dividend hike announced Friday afternoon, prompted Standard & Poor’s Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst to issue one of his updates on how dividend investors are faring. He says 2010 is “ending as a great year for dividends, with 2011 expected to continue good news, but we won’t be back to what we got in 2008 until 2013.”

The man we like to call the high-priest and keeper of the S&P 500 sent us this data, which we turned into a sortable table, as we know it’s often tough tracking down dividend data. The numbers reflect Thursday’s close of trading, enjoy:

Source: Wall Street Journal

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