Gold Fields Limited (GFI) is a publicly traded company in the Basic Materials — Gold industry listed on NYSE. This overview shows the latest price, key valuation ratios, profitability metrics and financial-health indicators used by fundamental investors.
Gold Fields Limited is a prominent global gold mining enterprise, holding significant reserves and resources across diverse regions including Chile, South Africa, Ghana, West Africa, Australia, and Peru. Beyond its primary focus on gold, the company also engages in the exploration of copper deposits. It manages a portfolio of nine operational mines, collectively producing an estimated 2.34 million gold-equivalent ounces each year.
Is Gold Fields Limited stock overvalued or undervalued in 2026?
Gold Fields Limited (GFI) trades at 7.2× earnings (P/E), against a median of 18.8× across the 156 materials companies above $2bn in Kaplio's universe. No valuation verdict: it is a cyclical and today's P/E (7.2) does not tell whether it is cheap.
Kaplio overview: Gold Fields Limited
Market cap $31B · 52 weeks $31 – $62 (40 % below the high) · P/E 7.2× · 2027 expected P/E 7.1× · Dividend 6.5 % · Next earnings February 25, 2027 · expected EPS $2.30 · Closing price, Oct 29 · accounts published Aug 25.
- Valuation: P/E 7.2× (no verdict).
- Business: ROIC 29 % (solid).
- Balance sheet: Net debt/EBITDA 0.3× (solid).
- Earnings: 5 of 8 (uneven).
What would it be worth at its usual multiples?
No valuation verdict: it is a cyclical and today's P/E (7.2) does not tell whether it is cheap.
In cyclicals the P/E misleads: today's earnings are not the normal ones.
What matters in materials: 7 of 8 pass
- P/B across cycles 3.6×, fails.
- FCF yield 15.2 %, passes.
- Gross margin 55.1 %, passes.
- Net debt / EBITDA (trough) 0.3×, passes.
- Dividend coverage 4.4×, passes.
- Capex / D&A 1.5×, passes.
- Altman Z-Score 5.8, passes.
- Cycle-adjusted EV/EBITDA 4.4×, passes.
Against its peers (reference peers) — Gold Fields Limited: P/E 7.2×; EV/EBITDA 4.4×; ROIC 29.0 %; $31.3B. Kinross Gold Corporation (P/E 8.3×; EV/EBITDA 4.6×; ROIC 25.2 %; $25.6B), AngloGold Ashanti Plc (P/E 11.4×; EV/EBITDA 5.4×; ROIC 31.3 %; $43.0B), Barrick Mining Corporation (P/E 9.9×; EV/EBITDA 4.9×; ROIC 17.3 %; $63.6B).
Expensive or cheap against its last ten years?
P/E at each close: today 7.2× · median 8.9× · minimum 3.2× · maximum 26.1× · cheap below 7.7× · expensive above 15.9×. It has been cheaper than today only 22% of the time over its last ten years.
Dividend
tight (only raised recently) · Yield 6.5 % ($0.79 per share in 2025) · Years raising it 1 · 5-year growth +39 % a year · Free cash flow coverage 3.0× · With $1,000 invested today you'd collect $65.30 a year ($5.44 a month).
Profitability
| Return on Equity | 51.87% |
| Return on Invested Capital | 28.96% |
| Return on Assets | 28.75% |
| Gross Margin | 57.31% |
| Operating Margin | 53.24% |
| Net Margin | 39.34% |
Financial Health
| Debt / Equity | 0.29 |
| Current Ratio | 1.87 |
| Piotroski F-Score | 8 |
| Altman Z-Score | 5.79 |
Price Performance
| 1 month | -2.74% |
| 3 months | +8.33% |
| Year-to-date | -19.56% |
| 1 year | -9.44% |
| 3 years | +169.74% |
| 5 years | +278.45% |
| 10 years | +711.09% |
Dividend History
Paid in the last 12 months: $2.3584 per share in 2 payments.
| Date | Amount |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-11 | $0.9930 |
| 2026-03-13 | $1.3654 |
| 2025-09-12 | $0.4020 |
| 2025-03-14 | $0.3752 |
| 2024-09-13 | $0.1693 |
| 2024-03-14 | $0.2190 |
| 2023-09-07 | $0.1711 |
| 2023-03-16 | $0.2425 |
| 2022-09-15 | $0.1780 |
| 2022-03-10 | $0.1738 |
Amounts adjusted for stock splits.
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