During the recent session, International Paper Co (NYSE:IP)’s traded shares were 0.78 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.01. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $52.02, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.74% or -$0.39. The 52-week high for the IP share is $60.36, that puts it down -16.03 from that peak though still a striking 18.59% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $42.35. The company’s market capitalization is $27.46B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 3.65 million shares, and the average trade volume was 4.10 million shares over the past three months.
International Paper Co (IP) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.31. IP has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 22 analysts who have looked at this stock. 6 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 15 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.38.
International Paper Co (NYSE:IP) trade information
International Paper Co (IP) registered a -0.74% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.74% in intraday trading to $52.02, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 3.15%, and it has moved by 9.24% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -3.34%. The short interest in International Paper Co (NYSE:IP) is 42.2 million shares and it means that shorts have 9.98 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $59.5, which implies an increase of 12.57% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $59 and $60 respectively. As a result, IP is trading at a discount of -15.34% off the target high and -13.42% off the low.
International Paper Co (IP) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 41.03% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 6.63B as predicted by 8 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 8 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 6.8B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 4.73B and 4.69B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 39.97% and then jump by 45.04% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -12.53%. While earnings are projected to return 88.47% in 2025, the next five years will return 56.95% per annum.
IP Dividends
International Paper Co is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-30. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for International Paper Co is 1.85, with the dividend yield indicating at 3.55 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 4.45%.
International Paper Co (NYSE:IP)’s Major holders
International Paper Co insiders own 0.34% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 95.36%, with the float percentage being 95.69%. PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1291.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 46.91 million shares (or 13.506% of all shares), a total value of $2.02 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 40.67 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 11.7116% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $1.76 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of International Paper Co (IP) shares are AMERICAN MUTUAL FUND and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Apr 30, 2025 indicates that AMERICAN MUTUAL FUND owns about 35.85 shares. This amounts to just over 6.79 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $1.86 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 16.61, or about 3.15% of the stock, which is worth about $862.82 million.
