Can International Paper Co’s (IP) hike of 3.02% in a week be considered a lucky break?

International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) on Friday, soared 0.24% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $59.18. Within the past 52 weeks, IP’s price has moved between $32.33 and $60.22.

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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Consumer Cyclical sector saw sales slided by -3.32%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -46.85%. With a float of $342.28 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $346.04 million.

The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 39000 workers is very important to gauge. 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 and Institutional Ownership

Observing investor behavior towards Packaging & Containers industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of International Paper Co is 1.47%, while institutional ownership is 129.59%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 15 ’24, was worth 33,714. In this transaction Director of this company sold 600 shares at a rate of $56.19, taking the stock ownership to the 37,745 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 31 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 600 for $53.50, making the entire transaction worth $32,100. This insider now owns 38,345 shares in total.

International Paper Co (IP) Latest Financial update

As on 9/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.41 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (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 17.50% 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

International Paper Co (IP) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.11 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.11. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 25.60.

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)

The latest stats from [International Paper Co, IP] show that its last 5-days average volume of 4.75 million was inferior to 5.32 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 74.85%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.46.

During the past 100 days, International Paper Co’s (IP) raw stochastic average was set at 94.99%, which indicates a significant increase from 79.55% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 18.19% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 28.88% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $51.45, while its 200-day Moving Average is $44.04. Now, the first resistance to watch is $60.01. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $60.70. The third major resistance level sits at $61.42. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $58.60, it is likely to go to the next support level at $57.88. The third support level lies at $57.19 if the price breaches the second support level.

International Paper Co (NYSE: IP) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 20.66 billion based on 347,408K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 18,916 M and income totals 288,000 K. The company made 4,686 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 150,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.