Analyzing Gold Fields – A Fundamental Overview

By Naomi Wentworth • Sunday, October 27 15:11 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Gold Fields over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Silver stock at a price of $17.51? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Gold Fields has moved 29.4% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 39.4%
GFI has an average analyst rating of buy and is -1.85% away from its mean target price of $17.84 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $0.71
Gold Fields has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.91 and its forward P/E ratio is 9.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.36 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Gold Fields is part of the Basic Materials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.53 and an average P/B of 2.64
GFI has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -14.9% and gross profit margins of 0.3%
The company has a free cash flow of $424.91 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Gold Fields Limited operates as a gold producer with reserves and resources in Chile, South Africa, Ghana, Canada, Australia, and Peru. It also explores for copper and silver deposits. The company was founded in 1887 and is based in Sandton, South Africa.

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