International Paper Co (IP) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $54.46, with 3.83 million shares of worth about $208.39 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 11.48% during that period and on April 03, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.51%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 526.13M shares, out of which, 520.69M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -1.71% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 6.16%. Year-to-date (YTD), IP shares are showing a performance of 1.19% which increased to 39.53% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $33.16 but also hit the highest price of $60.36 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for International Paper Co shares is 9.60 million. The stock is currently trading 3.79% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -0.31% for SMA50 and it goes to 6.16% higher than SMA200.
International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) currently have 526.13M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 95.41% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $28.65B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.98. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 34.61, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.57 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.62 and has Quick Ratio of 1.09 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.99. 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 3.07% while standing at 2.97% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 138.53% while it is estimated to increase by 37.24% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 56.26% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -12.53% 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 JP Morgan on March 20, 2025 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $59 to it. Coverage by Citigroup stated International Paper Co (IP) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on March 05, 2025, suggesting a price target of $60 for the stock. On February 13, 2025, BofA Securities Resumed their recommendations, while on November 13, 2024, Exane BNP Paribas Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $48.20. Stock get a Buy rating from Argus on August 14, 2024.
