International Paper Co. (IP)

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International Paper Co.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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International Paper Co.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $23 billion in fiscal 2018 to $24 billion in fiscal 2025, up 0.2% a year; it rose in 3 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 32% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 7 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, International Paper Co.'s diluted share count grew about 11.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 49% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 5 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-05, buying about $4 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, International Paper Co. lost about 24 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 18 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 61 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 42.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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International Paper Co.'s standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $24 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 8% by size; a net margin of -14.9% ranks in the bottom 29%; revenue growth of 3.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 34% (its annual reports).

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International Paper Co.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Silvernail, Andrew K (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-05-08, 2.5 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.1 years (bottom 38%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (bottom 17%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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International Paper Co.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.1 billion against debt of $8.8 billion leaves -20.3% of its assets as net cash, top 24% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -0.7% of revenue (bottom 24%); a gross margin of 29.6% (top 22%) (its annual report).

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International Paper Co.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 3.8% a year over the last three filed years against 0.2% over all 8, speeding up (top 13% of its family); the newest year grew 49.3% (top 3%); capital spending grew 25.9% a year (top 13%) (its annual reports). International Paper Co. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Packaging Solutions North America at $15 billion, Packaging Solutions EMEA at $8.5 billion. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 64% of revenue (its annual report).

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International Paper Co.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $24 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 72.5% above the $14 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 3% of its family); net income of $3.5 billion against a prior three-year average of $783 million (bottom 8%); a net margin of -14.9% against 4.1% before (bottom 14%) (its annual reports).