@fees_first_dan that's exactly right, ja. Buy at R600, gold rallies, share goes to R680, you're up R80 per…by @oom_frik_explains on $GFI

Gold Fields digs gold out of the ground in places like Ghana and Australia, sells it, and keeps the profit, so when the company does well the share price tends to go up. That's how you make money on a share, either the price rises or they pay you a bit of the profit as a dividend.