JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug 1, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Gold Fields (JSE) is pleased to report its third successive quarter of record earnings for the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2002.
The June quarter's net earnings of R1,180 million, or 251 cents per share, are 12 per cent higher than the earnings of R1,049 million, or 224 cents for the March quarter, and nine times that of the June 2001 quarter's headline earnings reported one year ago. In U.S. Dollar terms, this equates to earnings of $112 million, or $0.24 per share, compared to earnings of $98 million, or $0.21 per share, reported in the March quarter.
As a result of the outstanding financial performance achieved during the past six months, a dividend of 220 cents per share has been declared payable to all shareholders of record as of Friday, 23 August 2002. This is the highest dividend paid in Gold Fields' history.
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