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Gold Fields (FRA:EDGA) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate : -30.90% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Gold Fields 3-Year FCF Growth Rate?

Gold Fields's Free Cash Flow per Share for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was €-0.10.

During the past 12 months, Gold Fields's average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -52.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -30.90% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Free Cash Flow per Share growth rate.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Gold Fields was 98.60% per year. The lowest was -217.30% per year. And the median was -12.40% per year.


Competitive Comparison of Gold Fields's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate

For the Gold subindustry, Gold Fields's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year FCF Growth Rate 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's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Gold Fields's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

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Gold Fields 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Calculation

This is the 3-year average growth rate of Free Cash Flow per Share. The growth rate is calculated using exponential compounding based on the latest four year annual data.

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Gold Fields  (FRA:EDGA) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Explanation

Free Cash Flow per Share is the amount of Free Cash Flow per outstanding share of the company's stock. Free Cash Flow is considered one of the most important parameters to measure a company's earnings power by value investors because it is not subject to estimates of Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization (DDA). However, when we look at the Free Cash Flow, we should look from a long term perspective, because any year's Free Cash Flow can be drastically affected by the spending on Property, Plant, & Equipment (PPE) of the business in that year. Over the long term, Free Cash Flow should give pretty good picture on the real earnings power of the company. It's used in the calculation of Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %.


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Gold Fields (FRA:EDGA) Business Description

Address
150 Helen Road, Sandown, Sandton, Johannesburg, GT, ZAF, 2196
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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