IP Dividend Calculator
International Paper Company yields 5.36%, comfortably above the 2.91% median across US dividend payers. That puts IP in the range where the income is the main reason to hold it, and where the durability of the payment does most of the work in any long-run figure.
IP paid $1.85 per share over the last twelve months on a quarterly schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.
Your investment
IP
International Paper Company
5.36%
yield
Dividend income
$10,000 in IP pays you
$535.61
per year
- Paid each quarter
- $133.90
- Monthly average
- $44.63
- Shares bought
- 289.52
- Payments a year
- 4
Total over 10 years, taken as cash
$5,356.11
Based on the trailing twelve-month dividend, assuming it stays flat. Payments are not guaranteed and can be cut or suspended at any time. Figures are before tax and exclude any change in the share price.
IP dividend income by investment amount
Based on the current yield of 5.36%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.
| Invested | Per year | Per payment | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $53.56 | $13.39 | $4.46 |
| $5,000 | $267.81 | $66.95 | $22.32 |
| $10,000 | $535.61 | $133.90 | $44.63 |
| $25,000 | $1,339.03 | $334.76 | $111.59 |
| $50,000 | $2,678.05 | $669.51 | $223.17 |
| $100,000 | $5,356.11 | $1,339.03 | $446.34 |
IP with dividends reinvested
$10,000 in IP, every dividend reinvested, holding the payment and share price flat. Deliberately conservative — most calculators assume years of uninterrupted growth, and that assumption drives most of the result.
- After 10 years
- $17,024
- After 20 years
- $28,983
- After 30 years
- $49,341
$15,356 taking the income as cash
$20,712 taking the income as cash
$26,068 taking the income as cash
What makes up IP's 5.36% yield
IP paid $1.85 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $34.54, which is where the 5.36% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.
Yields at this level usually have a structural explanation rather than a mispricing: the company is organised to distribute income rather than retain it. Worth checking how IP's current yield compares with its own history, since a sharp recent rise more often reflects a falling price than a raised payment.
Materials dividends are funded by commodity earnings and are among the most cyclical on the market. A trailing yield captures what was paid through one part of that cycle, which may not resemble the next.
When IP pays, and what that changes
IP pays quarterly, the standard schedule for US-listed payers, so the "per payment" column is one quarter of the annual figure and the "monthly average" column is a smoothed figure rather than a description of when cash arrives — nothing is paid in eight months of the year.
Each payment has an ex-dividend date, and it is the date that governs entitlement: shares bought on or after it do not carry that payment. IP's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.
Is IP's dividend covered by earnings?
IP's payout ratio is negative, which means the dividend is being paid while the company reports a loss. A dividend can be funded from cash reserves or borrowing through a loss-making period, but not from profits that do not exist — and every projection above assumes the current payment continues indefinitely.
The figures hold the dividend flat, and that assumption carries more weight for IP than it would for a lower-yielding holding. There is no established record of consecutive annual increases here, and at this yield a modest reduction in the payment changes the ten-year figure substantially.
IP dividend calculator FAQ
- How much does $10,000 in IP pay in dividends?
- At IP's current yield of 5.36%, $10,000 pays about $535.61 a year — roughly $133.90 per payment, paid quarterly, or $44.63 a month averaged out.
- What would IP be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
- Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in IP would grow to about $17,024 after 10 years, against $15,356 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.
- How often does IP pay dividends?
- IP pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
- Is IP's dividend guaranteed?
- No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check IP's full payment history before relying on any of it.
- Why is IP's dividend yield so high?
- IP yields 5.36% against a 2.91% median across US dividend payers. A yield is a ratio, so it rises either because the payment went up or because the share price came down — and the figure alone does not say which. Yields this far above the market among ordinary operating companies are unusual and often reflect what the market expects rather than what has been announced.
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International Paper Company is a common stock trading at $34.54 per share, paying quarterly. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.