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  • Nov 3, 2011, 10:51 AM
    betha31
    Trying to find dividend history of AT&T stock prior to 1984
    Is there a website that will list dividends annually for AT&T stock purchased in 1957?
  • Nov 3, 2011, 11:15 AM
    AtlantaTaxExpert
    Your best bet is AT&T itself. Their shareholder services division would have that information.
  • Nov 3, 2011, 11:25 AM
    ebaines
    Remember that you're looking for history of AT&T Corp. not AT&T Inc. I found it here:

    AT&T Corp. Dividends | Investor Relations | AT&T

    It's confusing, but when SBC (nee Southwest Bell) bought AT&T Corp 1n 2005 they changed the name of the combined enterprise to AT&T Inc. So web sites that today show the history of "AT&T" stock are actually showing the history of SBC, which came into being upon divestiture from AT&T Corp in 1984.

    Note the web site that I referenced provides both AT&T Inc and AT&T Corp dividend data.

    May I ask why you need this data? If it's because you are trying to figure the cost basis of some AT&T stock you own (perhaps shares you bought pre-1984 through a Dividend Reinvestment Program), it's going to get very complicated trying to track cost basis through all the various stock splits, company spin-offs, and mergers that have occurred since the original AT&T divestiture in 1984. But there are some helpful web sites that I can point you to in order to help figure it out.

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