International Paper Co (IP) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $55.66, with 3.97 million shares of worth about $221.09 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 22.30% during that period and on January 15, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.43%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 347.40M shares, out of which, 342.28M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 3.82% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.46%. Year-to-date (YTD), IP shares are showing a performance of 3.42% which increased to 47.76% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $32.70 but also hit the highest price of $60.36 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for International Paper Co shares is 4.42 million. The stock is currently trading 2.45% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -0.95% for SMA50 and it goes to 17.67% higher than SMA200.
International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) currently have 347.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 128.58% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $19.34B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.00. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 47.33, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.18 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.63 and has Quick Ratio of 1.11 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.94. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for IP, volatility over the week remained 2.32% while standing at 1.81% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that International Paper Co (IP) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.03 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.5 and it is 3.01 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.12 which is 0.46 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.41 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -46.76% while it is estimated to increase by 161.48% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 18.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -29.18% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Exane BNP Paribas on November 13, 2024 offering an Underperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $48.20 to it. Coverage by Argus stated International Paper Co (IP) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on August 14, 2024, suggesting a price target of $52 for the stock. On July 09, 2024, Stifel Initiated their recommendations, while on June 28, 2024, Seaport Research Partners Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $52. Stock get a Buy rating from Jefferies on May 23, 2024.
