International Paper Co. (IP): Price and Financial Metrics

IP POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where IP ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 89.4% of US stocks.
• IP's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• IP's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 7.06% of US stocks).

IP Stock Summary

• International Paper Co's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.84% of US equities in our set.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -46.24%, International Paper Co's debt growth rate surpasses only 8.5% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for IP comes in at 41.13% -- higher than that of 96.22% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to IP, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are LU, MGA, RF, RGA, and CX.
• IP's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit International Paper Co's official web site, go to www.internationalpaper.com.

IP Valuation Summary

• IP's price/sales ratio is 1.1; this is 64.52% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, IP's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.4.
• IP's price/earnings ratio has moved up 43.7 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for IP.

IP Growth Metrics

Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 13.49%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 28.65%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at -34.42%.

Over the past 34 months, IP's revenue has gone down $3,965,000,000.

The table below shows IP's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	19,363	2,030	1,752
2021-09-30	21,932	2,712	1,798
2021-06-30	21,341	2,802	1,138
2021-03-31	20,591	2,926	972
2020-12-31	20,580	3,063	482
2020-09-30	20,839	3,202	494

IP's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• IP has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 94.75% of graded US stocks.
• IP's asset turnover comes in at 0.707 -- ranking 17th of 21 Business Supplies stocks.
• RFP, SWM, and ITP are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with IP.

The table below shows IP's key quality metrics over time.