Valued at a market cap of $19.1 billion, International Paper Company (IP) is a producer of planet-friendly, fiber-based packaging and pulp solutions. The Memphis, Tennessee-based company’s comprehensive core operations are focused heavily on industrial packaging, producing massive volumes of containerboard, corrugated shipping boxes, and folding paperboard containers required by e-commerce, retail, manufacturing, and food and beverage sectors.
Companies valued at $10 billion or more are typically classified as “large-cap stocks,” and IP fits the label perfectly, with its market cap exceeding this threshold, underscoring its size, influence, and dominance within the packaging & containers industry. The company's defining specialty is the high-volume engineering of structurally optimized, fully circular corrugated packaging architectures designed to maximize box strength while minimizing material weight and environmental footprint.
