20.89% percent quarterly performance for International Paper Co (IP) is not indicative of the underlying story

International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) kicked off on Friday, up 1.14% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $56.93. Over the past 52 weeks, IP has traded in a range of $31.76-$59.52.

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Consumer Cyclical Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -3.32% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -46.85%. With a float of $342.28 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $346.04 million.

The firm has a total of 39000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 21.55%, operating margin of 2.01%, and the pretax margin is 0.24%.

International Paper Co (IP) Insider Activity

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Packaging & Containers Industry. The insider ownership of International Paper Co is 1.55%, while institutional ownership is 127.82%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 31 ’24, was worth 32,100. In this transaction Director of this company sold 600 shares at a rate of $53.50, taking the stock ownership to the 38,345 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 15 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 600 for $48.08, making the entire transaction worth $28,848. This insider now owns 38,945 shares in total.

International Paper Co (IP) Earnings and Forecasts

In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 9/30/2024, the organization reported 0.41 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 0.34) by 0.07. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.46 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -46.85% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 14.00% during the next five years compared to -29.18% drop over the previous five years of trading.

International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at International Paper Co’s (IP) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.11. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.09. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 25.07.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.18, a number that is poised to hit -0.08 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.01 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of International Paper Co (IP)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [International Paper Co, IP], we can find that recorded value of 4.15 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 5.33 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 37.47%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.35.

During the past 100 days, International Paper Co’s (IP) raw stochastic average was set at 89.23%, which indicates a significant increase from 84.19% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 55.64% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 31.31% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $50.36, while its 200-day Moving Average is $43.42. Now, the first resistance to watch is $58.17. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $58.76. The third major resistance level sits at $59.84. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $56.50, it is likely to go to the next support level at $55.42. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $54.83.

International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 20.23 billion has total of 347,408K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 18,916 M in contrast with the sum of 288,000 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 4,686 M and last quarter income was 150,000 K.