{"id":851432,"date":"2026-02-19T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=851432"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:35:10","slug":"major-south-african-gold-miner-gives-r4-billion-gift-to-shareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/851432\/major-south-african-gold-miner-gives-r4-billion-gift-to-shareholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Major South African gold miner gives R4 billion &#8216;gift&#8217; to shareholders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gold Fields has declared a special dividend of $253 million (around R4 billion at current exchange rates) for the financial year ended 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold Fields CEO Mike Fraser said that improved operational performance, coupled with a higher gold price, led to strong financial performance in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group, which has a market cap of around R750 billion, generated adjusted free cash flow of $2,970 million (R47 billion) in 2025, up from $605 million (R9.7 billion) in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its headline earnings for the period rose to $2,576 million (R41 billion) from $1,188 million (R19 billion) in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group&#8217;s profit attributable to the owners of the parent ended the year at $3,567.4 million (R57 billion) from $1,245.0 million (R20 billion) in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In line with its new dividend policy, the group also declared a final dividend of R18.50 per share, which is 164% higher than the final dividend paid last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold Fields noted that when combined with the interim dividend of R7 per share, the total dividend is R25.50 per share, equating to 35% of free cash before discretionary investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of the regular dividend, Gold Fields announced an extra $353 million in additional returns for shareholders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes a $253 million (R4 billion) special dividend and $100 million (R1.6 billion) in share buy-backs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of the base dividend, the total distribution to shareholders sits at $1.7 billion (R27 billion), which equates to 54% of adjusted free cash flow.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"729\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-851433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-14.png 902w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-14-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-14-768x621.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Fields is returning R27 billion to shareholders\u2014including a R4 billion special dividend\u2014as gold reaches record high prices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":851436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[6698],"class_list":["post-851432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-gold-fields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851443,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851432\/revisions\/851443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}