Short interest in International Paper Co (NYSE:IP) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 51.49M to 51.04M. This put 19.9% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for International Paper gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of International Paper's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 4.36M shares traded per day, it would take 11.71 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.