International Paper Co. is a global producer of sustainable packaging, pulp, and other fiber-based products, and a recycler. Co. operates through two segments: Industrial Packaging and Global Cellulose Fibers. The Industrial Packaging segment is focused on creating fiber-based packaging that protects and promotes goods, enables worldwide commerce, and helps keep consumers safe. The segment offers products, including linerboard, medium, whitetop, recycled linerboard, recycled medium and saturating kraft. We show 60 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our IP shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute IP market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing IP market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing IP's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of IP versus a peer is one thing; comparing
IP market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like IP can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching IP by allowing them to research the IP market cap history. |
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