Will AT&T’s App Tools Send The Right Message To These Top Institutional Shareholders?

AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) made an announcement that they have expanded their relationship to provide software developers with a set of powerful new tools to create and deploy next generation mobile apps. These customers will see benefits from access to secure, high quality apps, including which that feature advanced speech recognition, and mobile payment capabilities, that are able to transform the manner in which they engage in everyday activities.

Will AT&T, Inc.’s shareholders decrrease their holdings? They reported owning a total of 3.072 billion shares on 12/31/2012. The shares closed at $33.28 on 12/31/2012.

Here are the ten largest positions in AT&T, Inc. at the end of December 31st, 2012.

Vanguard Group Inc. held 255,585,884 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $8,615,799,916. This brought the portfolio total to 1.08%.

State Street Corp. held 240,342,310 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $8,101,939,050. This brought the portfolio total to 1.17%.

Evercore Trust Company N.A. held 236,591,214 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $7,975,489,607. This brought the portfolio total to 32.86%.

Blackrock Institutional Trust Company N.A. held 156,410,572 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $5,272,600,239. This brought the portfolio total to 1.23%.

Capital Research Global Investors held 110,599,930 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $3,728,323,539. This brought the portfolio total to 1.79%.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. held 83,364,487 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $2,810,216,780. This brought the portfolio total to 0.99%.

Northern Trust Corp. held 78,531,043 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $2,647,281,388. This brought the portfolio total to 1.09%.

Price T Rowe Associates Inc. /MD/ held 75,934,975 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $2,559,767,938. This brought the portfolio total to 0.75%.

Wellington Management Co. LLP. held 72,522,164 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $2,444,722,082. This brought the portfolio total to 0.17%.

Blackrock Fund Advisors held 55,776,086 shares on 12/31/2012 worth $1,880,211,808. This brought the portfolio total to 0.84%.

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