Gold Fields's Dividends per Share for the
six
months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.17.
During the past 12 months, Gold Fields's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 32.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 52.30% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 69.80% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 34.20% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Gold Fields was 98.60% per year. The lowest was -58.70% per year. And the median was 4.80% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Gold Fields Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Gold Fields's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Gold subindustry, Gold Fields's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Gold Fields Dividend Yield % Distribution
For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Gold Fields's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Gold Fields's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Gold Fields Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Gold Fields Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.219
2024-03-14
2024-03-15
2024-03-28
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.171
2023-09-07
2023-09-08
2023-09-21
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
USD:USD 1.000000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
Gold Fields's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.39
/
17.65
=
2.21 %
Current Share Price is $17.65.
Gold Fields's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $0.39.
Gold Fields's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.438
/
17.65
=
2.48 %
Current Share Price is $17.65.
Gold Fields's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.219 * 2 = $0.438.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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Gold Fields Ltd is a producer of gold and is a holder of gold reserves and resources in South Africa, Ghana, Australia and Peru. In Peru, the company also produces copper. The company is primarily involved in underground and surface gold and surface copper mining and silver and related activities, including exploration, extraction, processing and smelting. It conducts underground and surface mining operations at St. Ives, underground-only operations at Agnew, Granny Smith and South Deep and surface-only open pit mining at Damang, Tarkwa and Cerro Corona. The company's revenues are derived from the sale of gold that it produces.
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