Gold Fields Stock Ex-dividend August 31, 2011 Stock Market Today Shares, gold , mortgage rates

Gold Fields Stock Ex-dividend August 31, 2011 ; The ex-dividend date for Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI) is tomorrow, August 31, 2011. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 14 cents per share. At a price of $16.52 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 1.5%.

The average volume for Gold Fields has been 4.7 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Gold Fields has a market cap of $11.8 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and metals & mining industry. Shares are down 10.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday.

Gold Fields Limited engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of gold properties. It also explores for copper. The company holds interests in mines located in South Africa, Ghana, Australia, and Peru. The company has a P/E ratio of 29.6, below the average metals & mining industry P/E ratio of 814 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates Gold Fields as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.

Here is the table of stocks with Ex-Dividend Date on 2011-08-31:

Symbol	Company	Yield	Last	Dividend(s)
AAN	Aaron's, Inc.	0.05%	$25.42	0.013
AMNB	American National BankShares Inc	1.25%	$18.34	0.23
ANAT	American National Insurance Company	1.03%	$74.51	0.77
AROW	Arrow Financial Corporation	1.05%	$23.74	0.25
AU	AngloGold Ashanti Limited (ADR)	0.30%	$44.00	0.1299
BAC	Bank of America Corp	0.16%	$6.30	0.01
BDC	Belden Inc.	0.18%	$27.70	0.05
BLK	BlackRock, Inc.	0.86%	$159.41	1.375
CASS	Cass Information Systems	0.45%	$35.64	0.16
CBOE	CBOE Holdings, Inc	0.52%	$23.04	0.12
CGNX	Cognex Corporation	0.28%	$32.12	0.09
CHRW	C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.	0.44%	$66.51	0.29
COHU	Cohu, Inc.	0.52%	$11.57	0.06
CTB	Cooper Tire & Rubber Company	0.92%	$11.47	0.105
EP	El Paso Corporation	0.06%	$17.87	0.01
ESEA	Euroseas Ltd.	1.92%	$3.65	0.07
FLO	Flowers Foods, Inc.	0.79%	$18.92	0.15
FLR	Fluor Corporation (NEW)	0.22%	$56.46	0.125
FRME	First Merchants Corporation	0.14%	$7.26	0.01
FTE	France Telecom SA (ADR)	4.49%	$18.93	0.85
GFI	Gold Fields Limited (ADR)	0.87%	$16.11	0.1401
GHM	Graham Corporation	0.12%	$16.81	0.02
ITUB	Itau Unibanco Holding SA (ADR)	0.05%	$16.49	0.0076
JCOM	j2 Global Communications, Inc.	0.68%	$29.59	0.2
KBW	KBW, Inc.	0.35%	$14.31	0.05
KNX	Knight Transportation	0.41%	$14.47	0.06
MLHR	Herman Miller, Inc.	0.12%	$17.90	0.022
MYE	Myers Industries, Inc.	0.72%	$9.75	0.07
NRCI	National Research Corporation	0.65%	$33.59	0.22
PCBK	Pacific Continental Corporation	0.35%	$8.48	0.03
PEP	PepsiCo, Inc.	0.81%	$63.48	0.515
ROST	Ross Stores, Inc.	0.30%	$73.65	0.22
SEE	Sealed Air Corp.	0.74%	$17.47	0.13
SLM	SLM Corporation	0.73%	$13.75	0.1
SWK	Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	0.70%	$58.77	0.41
TDW	Tidewater Inc.	0.50%	$50.35	0.25
TIS	Orchids Paper Products Company	0.78%	$12.85	0.1
TRH	Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.	0.44%	$49.69	0.22
UBCP	United Bancorp, Inc.	1.58%	$8.84	0.14
WLK	Westlake Chemical Corporation	0.18%	$40.98	0.0738

Average		0.67%