IPInternational Paper
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though margins widening.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating margin has widened over the past few years, the business is getting more profitable per dollar of sales.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is IP?
International Paper keeps −14% of every revenue dollar as profit after everything, against 4.7% for the median Packaging & Containers name.
Net margin · Packaging & Containers median 4.7% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −0.58%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
- Gross margin
- 30%
Gross margin
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 30%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −14%
- Free cash flow margin
- 2.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $24.2B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $492M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$3.44B
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Packaging & Containers
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