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Here is KPP Financial Portfolio Manager, Luke Guerrero.

Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to InvestTalk. I'm your host, Luke Guerrero,

and today is Thursday, April 9th, 26. We are well into the second quarter of the year now,

but our mission here to InvestTalk does not change. We exist to help educate you and answer

your finance and investment questions. To that end, before we talk about today's market

performance and run down those show topics, let's tackle our first caller question now.

Hi, this is Pam from Philadelphia. Thank you for your podcast.

I really enjoy it.

I'm wondering about international paper.

I own international paper.

I've owned it for about a year.

I'm wondering if you think it's a good time to sell or if I should continue to hold on to it.

Thank you.

Goodbye.

International paper company, that would be ticker IP, is the world's largest corrugated packaging and container board manufacturer. Now, they recently just completed an acquisition of

DS Smith in January of last year, And what that did was that it dramatically expanded

their business into Europe and Asia. Now, they're planning to split into two independent

public companies, one focused on North America, and then one in those, that MIA segment.

Now, Q4, 2025, looks like we did have a revenue beat of about 2%, which is good because

that is the first full quarter when D.S. Smith was fully integrated. Revenue jumped 31%

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