IP

International Paper Company ·NYSE·Materials
41.13 live · 2026-08-13 15:59
8.5%
Brown Bear Score
2.1%
Business Conviction Score
29.1%
Position Health Score
10.4%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -15.5% · range 29.38–49.68

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets -0.4%
OCF / assets 4.5%
FCF / revenue 7.2%
Gross margin 29.6%
ROIC -9.4%
Forward P/E 13.8

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Trailing EPS is negative (-5.39), so a growth percentage does not exist — forward EPS of 2.99 implies a swing from loss to profit

Confidence 35.0/100

Takeaway Low data confidence (limited analyst coverage) — treat this section as informational only.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-28 · consensus EPS 0.41

Q2 23 revenue: 4.68bnQ3 23 revenue: 4.61bnQ3 23Q4 23 revenue: 4.60bnQ1 24 revenue: 4.62bnQ1 24Q2 24 revenue: 4.73bnQ2 24 net income: 498.00mQ2 24 EPS: 1.41Q3 24 revenue: 4.69bnQ3 24 net income: 150.00mQ3 24 EPS: 0.42Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 4.58bnQ1 25 revenue: 5.90bnQ1 25 net income: -105.00mQ1 25 EPS: -0.24Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 6.77bnQ2 25 net income: 75.00mQ2 25 EPS: 0.14Q3 25 revenue: 6.22bnQ3 25 net income: -1.10bnQ3 25 EPS: -2.09Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 4.74bnQ4 25 net income: -2.38bnQ4 25 EPS: -4.71Q1 26 revenue: 5.97bnQ1 26 net income: 60.00mQ1 26 EPS: 0.11Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-4.71–1.41, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 5.97bn +1.2% 60.00m 0.11 0.15 +3.4% 2026-05-05
2025-12-31 (derived) 4.74bn +3.6% -2.38bn -4.71 -0.08 -131.1% 2026-02-27
2025-09-30 6.22bn +32.8% -1.10bn -2.09 -0.43 -188.8% 2025-11-06
2025-06-30 6.77bn +42.9% 75.00m 0.14 2025-08-07

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.9%
On an ordinary two days ±1.7% — filings move it 1.1× as much
Direction 11 up, 0 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue -5.5% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-28: price +1.9%Q1 23 revenue -4.1% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-28: price +0.7%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -13.1% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-28: price +1.9%Q3 23 revenue -14.6% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-27: price +1.6%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue -8.0% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-26: price +5.4%Q2 24 revenue +1.1% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-26: price +0.9%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +1.6% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-11-01: price +1.9%Q1 25 revenue +27.8% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-07: price +1.1%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +42.9% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-08-07: price +2.6%Q3 25 revenue +32.8% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-11-06: price +4.9%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +1.2% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-05-05: price +7.4%

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-03-31 2026-05-05 +1.2% +7.4% -0.6%
2025-09-30 2025-11-06 +32.8% +4.9% +0.4%
2025-06-30 2025-08-07 +42.9% +2.6% -1.1%
2025-03-31 2025-05-07 +27.8% +1.1% +0.4%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Growing — shares issued
Diluted shares 531.8M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year +21.5%
Change over 3 years +50.5%
Public float $24.67bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 36.97 — 41.33
Protective stop 35.57 (Atr, 9.1% risk)
Support 41.08 (4 touches, 0.1% away)
Resistance 42.97 (4.5% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 0.1% above 41.08, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 4.5% below 42.97, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 4 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 9.1% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 7/21/43 (82% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness11% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 39.73 to 40.10. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days +11.9%
63 days +28.6%
126 days -16.4%
252 days -15.0%
Below 252d high17.2%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway The share price is above the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is climbing. The gap between the two has been fairly steady. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width22.3% of price
Recent tightest22.3% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 43.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 36.21 — 45.29

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 22% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 36.25–44.092026-07-032026-08-13
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger MACD bullish crossover repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 RSI recovery above 50 secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Deteriorating rapidly
  3. Trigger 3 EMA20 continuation hold already above Track 2 pathway: price is above a rising EMA20; sustained hold would support momentum continuation · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 Volume confirmation above 1.5x +0.50x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 MACD histogram above zero 0.21 gap is deteriorating · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Moderate

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway More shares change hands on the days this stock rises than on the days it falls. That is what you would expect to see if the rise is being driven by real buying rather than drifting up on a thin market.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

IP: no binary-event flag. Near IV 36%, far IV 40% (ratio 0.90), implied move 4.3%.

Implied volatility 36% near (8d) · 40% far (64d)
Term structure 0.90× near/far
Historical volatility 57%
Implied vs historical 0.63×
Implied move ±4.3% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.44×
Skew Put Skew (1.70×)
Put wall 20.00 (-51.4% away)
Gamma pin 20.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 4.3% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-13. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Stock Rotation Headwind

Rotation health 17.3/100; Severe Rotation Headwind.

Rotation health 17.3
Rotation strength 90.7
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 89.8 76.5
Stock vs SPY Lagging 93.2 77.0
Sector vs SPY Weakening 103.0 84.1

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 29.6% (+1.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 7.2% (+2.2)
  • FCF margin improving by -3.4 pts (+-1.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.137) (+3.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.05 -> -0.14) (+2.0)
  • Relative Strength 6.0% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+10.0)
  • Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+10.0)
  • Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.04 (+4.0)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 1.4 (+3.0)
  • Track 2: ADX 41.6 and rising (+18.0)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 1.1% (+0.9)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 1.1% (+3.0)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.24 (+5.7)
  • Track 2: price above EMA50 by 6.0% (+4.8)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 3.5% (+6.0)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.54 (+4.3)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: weak MACD histogram (-0.21)
  • Track 2: weak MACD line/signal structure (-15.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope deteriorating (-5.0)
  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.71x average)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.16)
  • Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 45.6, 5-day change -13.1
  • Weak Piotroski F-score (2/9)
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.97)
  • ROIC improving by -13.7 pts (+-2.0)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 0.2/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.