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Johannesburg - SA stocks ended higher on Thursday, with Standard Bank among the top gainers on the blue-chip index after the lender declared a better-than-expected dividend payout.
Standard Bank [JSE:SBK], whose full-year profit hardly grew, hiked its dividend by 12% to 598 cents per share, well above a 579 cents estimate in a Reuters poll of 13 analysts.
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