Filed under: Stocks to Buy High yield dividend stocks were hard to come by in the recession, as some big blue chips slashed their payouts. But now, dividend growth appears to be back. According to Standard and Poor’s, only 48 companies in the S&P 500 decreased their dividend payments during the first quarter of 2010, a vast improvement over the record 367 companies that slashed dividends during the same period in 2009 — adding $6.4 billion in total dividends.

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