“The change in cash provided by operations in the first six months of 2026 compared to the comparable 2025 six-month period was primarily due to certain significant payments related to the DS Smith acquisition transaction costs, incentive compensation and bene…”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
International Paper Company
IP
Market read
International Paper Company's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 9 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 4 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Input costs increased due to higher natural gas and utility costs driven by the winter storm.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if IP's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 9 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 4 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Input costs increased due to higher natural gas and utility costs driven by the winter storm.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +49.3% year over year.
- Net margin changed -18.4 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Diluted shares increased 42.8% in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- Energy and commodity prices has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- Input and raw-material costs has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
No credible peer-relative valuation comparison is available yet.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
34.27Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Sales volumes declined modestly, reflecting continued softness in market demand amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and subdued consumer sentiment.”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
“Input costs are expected to be lower, driven by recovered fiber partially offset by higher energy costs.”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
“Input costs were driven by higher freight costs partially offset by lower recovered fiber costs.”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 0.7× · EV/sales 1.1×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 10 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for IP. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for IP. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind IP
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
PKGPackaging Corporation of AmericapartnerAug 7, 2025 ▾
“International Papers’ second quarter results, compared to the first quarter of 2025, reflect higher sales and earnings through the successful execution of sales price increases along with favorable volume in our Packaging Solutions North America segment ("PS…”
PKGPackaging Corporation of AmericacompetitorNov 6, 2025 ▾
“BUSINESS SEGMENT OPERATING RESULTS The Company currently operates in two segments: Packaging Solutions North America (PS NA) and Packaging Solutions EMEA (PS EMEA).”
Depended on by
SLVMSylvamo CorporationcompetitorNov 7, 2025 ▾
“Comparing our earnings performance in the third quarter of 2025 to the prior year, volume decreased, primarily due to lower North America volume resulting from International Paper’s Georgetown mill closure.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
IP is currently a Participant in the organic co-movement group Economic Cyclicals. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for IP; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.