• Gold Fields average return on equity for 2014 was -8.98, a 300.45% decline from 2013.
• Gold Fields average return on equity for 2013 was 4.48, a 71.68% decline from 2012.
• Gold Fields average return on equity for 2012 was 15.82, a 89.23% decline from 2011.

Roe - return on equity can be defined as the amount of net income returned as a percentage of shareholders equity. Return on equity measures a corporation's profitability by revealing how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested.