Growth Metrics

International Paper (IP) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

International Paper (IP) has 17 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.01% in Q2 2025.

  • For Q2 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 1.0% year-over-year to 0.01%; the TTM value through Jun 2025 reached 0.01%, down 1.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.24%, 13.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.01% in Q2 2025 per IP's latest filing, up from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.24% in Q3 2022 and bottomed at 0.02% in Q3 2024.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.11%, with a median of 0.1% recorded in 2021.
  • The widest YoY moves for Return on Capital Employed: up 17bps in 2021, down -21bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.18% in 2021, then grew by 2bps to 0.19% in 2022, then plummeted by -43bps to 0.11% in 2023, then crashed by -91bps to 0.01% in 2024, then surged by 39bps to 0.01% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.01% in Q2 2025, 0.01% in Q1 2025, and 0.01% in Q4 2024.