Growth Metrics

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

International Paper (IP) has 17 years of Return on Invested Capital data on record, last reported at 0.07% in Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 10.0% year-over-year to 0.07%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.07%, down 10.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 1.05%, 85.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital reached 0.07% in Q3 2025 per IP's latest filing, up from 0.04% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 0.48% in Q3 2022 and bottomed at 0.03% in Q4 2024.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.2%, with a median of 0.15% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: soared 37bps in 2022, then crashed -36bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.25% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 65bps to 0.42% in 2022, then crashed by -64bps to 0.15% in 2023, then crashed by -78bps to 0.03% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 118bps to 0.07% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Invested Capital were 0.07% in Q3 2025, 0.04% in Q2 2025, and 0.05% in Q1 2025.