International Paper Co (IP) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $54.1, with 5.09 million shares of worth about $275.27 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -7.49% during that period and on July 23, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.75%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 527.80M shares, out of which, 522.69M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 5.48% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 17.38%. Year-to-date (YTD), IP shares are showing a performance of 18.33% which increased to 0.52% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $43.27 but also hit the highest price of $60.36 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for International Paper Co shares is 4.17 million. The stock is currently trading 7.37% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 10.85% for SMA50 and it goes to 4.35% higher than SMA200.
International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) currently have 527.80M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 94.25% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $28.56B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.02. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 46.12, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.17 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.80 and has Quick Ratio of 0.96 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.69. 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 2.34% while standing at 2.33% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 87.93% while it is estimated to increase by 64.42% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 57.64% 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 UBS on June 04, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $60 to it. Coverage by Wells Fargo stated International Paper Co (IP) stock as an Underweight in their note to investors on May 09, 2025, suggesting a price target of $40 for the stock. On March 20, 2025, JP Morgan Initiated their recommendations, while on March 05, 2025, Citigroup Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $60. Stock get a Neutral rating from BofA Securities on February 13, 2025.
