Currently, there are 526.13M common shares owned by the public and among those 520.70M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 2.42% and -1.51% over the past three months. IP shares are trading -1.84% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 34.67% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $33.16 and touched a high of $60.36 over the same period. IP has an average intraday trading volume of 9.12 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 0.51%, -3.64%, and 3.65% respectively.
Institutional ownership of International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) shares accounts for 95.35% of the company’s 526.13M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $27.80B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.98. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 33.57, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.57. The company has a PEG of 0.59 and a Quick Ratio of 1.09 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.99. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.28% over the week and 2.95% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 146.24%, and 34.50% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 56.45% over the next five years, compared to -12.53% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the IP, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. JP Morgan stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on March 20, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $59. Citigroup coverage for the International Paper Co (IP) stock in a research note released on March 05, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $60. BofA Securities was of a view on February 13, 2025 that the stock is Neutral, while Exane BNP Paribas gave the stock Underperform rating on November 13, 2024, issuing a price target of $48.20. Argus on their part issued Buy rating on August 14, 2024.
