The shares of Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo reached record highs on Wednesday after the Wall Street Banks had announced dividend hikes after closing the Tuesday. Both join the clothing list of the club stocks to increase their payments to investors in 2025. After the financial companies passed the annual stress test of the Federal Reserve on Friday evening, Goldman said on Tuesday that they increased its quarterly dividend distribution to $ 4 per share. This is an increase of 33% and the largest among the 15 portfolio names that have increased their dividends this year. In the meantime, Wells Fargo has increased its quarterly payment by 12.5% ​​to 45 cents from 40 cents. The dividend hikes from Goldman and Wells – together with the other club shares that increased their distributions in the first six months of the year – are generally positive signs of investors. In the event of a dividend increase, a company must distribute more profit to the shareholders. It usually means that management has a sufficient conviction in the cash flow to support the larger payment over time. A typical example: Goldman and Wells Fargo's shares rose by almost 1.5% and 1% on Wednesday. This follows 13 other clubs that increase their dividends at the beginning of this year. According to Goldman, Danaher had the largest increase in dividends on a percentage basis with 18.5%. The company announced in February to increase its quarterly payout to 32 cents per share of 27 cents. Eaton, Texas Roadhouse and Costco have increased their contributions to shareholders in double -digit percentages in the past few months. Here you will find a complete list of club stocks that raised dividends in 2025, including those who were not mentioned before, such as Home Depot, Meta platforms, Linde, Apple, Blackrock, Salesforce, Coterra and Dupont. The vast majority of our club stocks – 27 out of 30 – dividends currently pay. The only three are not Amazon, Crowdstrike and Palo Alto Networks. Nvidia's is tiny on his part, with only 1 cents per share. Of course, dividends must only be taken into account if you decide whether you should invest in a share. For most of our names, their annualized yields in the great scheme of things are quite small. Consider META platforms that pay a dividend for the first time in its history last year. In February of this year, the Social Media -Riese increased its quarterly dividend to 52 cents per share of 50 cents, which corresponds to an annualized return of 0.29%after the end of Tuesday. Nevertheless, the stock will act near Record Highs on Wednesday. The shares of the Facebook parents have risen by 22% to date, compared to around 5.5% of the technical Nasdaq Composite. However, if there is constant dividend growth and the increase in value of the share price, it can improve the overall return over time. This also applies to stocks that are usually not in demand according to their large payments such as Texas Roadhouse, which supports a return of 1.44%. In the past 10 years, the share has increased by around 404% – and 494% overall return. In order to capture the advantages of interest of interest, we recommend that the members re -invest their dividends. So who is next? We assume that additional portfolio companies will announce dividend hikes in 2025. Eli Lilly increased his dividend by 15% last December, which was the seventh annual increase of this size in a row. We hope to see this again in the second half of the year. In the meantime, Microsoft and Honeywell have announced dividend increases in September in recent years. And while Capital One did not increase his dividend on Tuesday, like the peers peers in portfolio banking, management will probably announce an updated capital return to the shareholders later this year. In fact, Truist analysts said on Monday that the credit card exhibitor had $ 15 billion in excess capital. That is around 11% of the company's market capitalization. Nevertheless, Jim Cramer believes that the company will also invest in business again. “I find [CEO] Richard Fairbank can take part of this capital and really make it a rival of American Express, “said Jim on Wednesday morning. This is followed by the great takeover of Discover Financial by Capital One – which was an important reason why the association initiated a position in the financial confirmation in the areas of financial stock Interior is.