GFI Dividend Calculator
Gold Fields Limited yields 5.89%, comfortably above the 2.93% median across US dividend payers. That puts GFI in the range where the income is the main reason to hold it, and where the durability of the payment does most of the work in any long-run figure.
GFI paid $2.38 per share over the last twelve months on a semi-annual schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.
Your investment
GFI
Gold Fields Limited
5.89%
yield
Dividend income
$10,000 in GFI pays you
$589.36
per year
- Paid twice a year
- $294.68
- Monthly average
- $49.11
- Shares bought
- 247.65
- Payments a year
- 2
Total over 10 years, taken as cash
$5,893.56
Based on the trailing twelve-month dividend, assuming it stays flat. Payments are not guaranteed and can be cut or suspended at any time. Figures are before tax and exclude any change in the share price.
GFI dividend income by investment amount
Based on the current yield of 5.89%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.
| Invested | Per year | Per payment | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $58.94 | $29.47 | $4.91 |
| $5,000 | $294.68 | $147.34 | $24.56 |
| $10,000 | $589.36 | $294.68 | $49.11 |
| $25,000 | $1,473.39 | $736.70 | $122.78 |
| $50,000 | $2,946.78 | $1,473.39 | $245.57 |
| $100,000 | $5,893.56 | $2,946.78 | $491.13 |
GFI with dividends reinvested
$10,000 in GFI, every dividend reinvested, holding the payment and share price flat. Deliberately conservative — most calculators assume years of uninterrupted growth, and that assumption drives most of the result.
- After 10 years
- $17,875
- After 20 years
- $31,953
- After 30 years
- $57,117
$15,894 taking the income as cash
$21,787 taking the income as cash
$27,681 taking the income as cash
What makes up GFI's 5.89% yield
GFI paid $2.38 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $40.38, which is where the 5.89% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.
Yields at this level usually have a structural explanation rather than a mispricing: the company is organised to distribute income rather than retain it. Worth checking how GFI's current yield compares with its own history, since a sharp recent rise more often reflects a falling price than a raised payment.
Materials dividends are funded by commodity earnings and are among the most cyclical on the market. A trailing yield captures what was paid through one part of that cycle, which may not resemble the next.
When GFI pays, and what that changes
GFI pays semi-annual, which is unusual among US-listed payers and has two consequences the annual figure hides. The "monthly average" column is an average and nothing more — no cash arrives in most months — and the gap between payments means a holder buying between them waits longer for the first one.
Infrequent payments also compound marginally more slowly when reinvested, since each distribution spends longer as cash before it is put back to work. The reinvestment figures above use GFI's real schedule rather than assuming quarterly payments.
Each payment has an ex-dividend date, and it is the date that governs entitlement: shares bought on or after it do not carry that payment. GFI's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.
Is GFI's dividend covered by earnings?
GFI's payout ratio of 0.36 means roughly 36% of earnings go to the dividend, leaving the rest retained. A margin that size is what allows a payment to be maintained through a weaker year without being funded from borrowing.
That ratio deserves a caveat specific to cyclical earnings, though: it is struck against one year's profits, and in this kind of business those profits swing with prices the company does not set. A comfortable-looking ratio at the top of a cycle and a stretched one at the bottom can describe an unchanged dividend — so the level matters less here than where in the cycle it was measured.
The figures hold the dividend flat, and that assumption carries more weight for GFI than it would for a lower-yielding holding. There is no established record of consecutive annual increases here, and at this yield a modest reduction in the payment changes the ten-year figure substantially.
GFI dividend calculator FAQ
- How much does $10,000 in GFI pay in dividends?
- At GFI's current yield of 5.89%, $10,000 pays about $589.36 a year — roughly $294.68 per payment, paid semi-annual, or $49.11 a month averaged out.
- What would GFI be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
- Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in GFI would grow to about $17,875 after 10 years, against $15,894 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.
- How often does GFI pay dividends?
- GFI pays semi-annual — 2 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
- Is GFI's dividend guaranteed?
- No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check GFI's full payment history before relying on any of it.
- Why is GFI's dividend yield so high?
- GFI yields 5.89% against a 2.93% median across US dividend payers. A yield is a ratio, so it rises either because the payment went up or because the share price came down — and the figure alone does not say which. Yields this far above the market among ordinary operating companies are unusual and often reflect what the market expects rather than what has been announced.
More on GFI
Gold Fields Limited is a common stock trading at $40.38 per share, paying semi-annual. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.