Short interest in International Paper Co (NYSE:IP) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 22.65M to 28.69M. This put 10.66% 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 5.17M shares traded per day, it would take 5.55 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.