Heartland Express - HTLD Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Heartland Express in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" HTLD shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in HTLD, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Heartland Express' stock. Their HTLD share price forecasts range from $14.00 to $18.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $16.17 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.6% from the stock's current price.
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Heartland Express' stock was trading at $15.34 at the beginning of the year. Since then, HTLD shares have increased by 2.7% and is now trading at $15.76.
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Heartland Express saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 1,170,000 shares, an increase of 10.4% from the February 13th total of 1,060,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 244,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.8 days. Approximately 2.5% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 20th 2023.
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Heartland Express, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTLD) issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February, 3rd. The transportation company reported $0.20 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.30 by $0.10. The transportation company had revenue of $354.90 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $332.23 million. Heartland Express had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.41% and a net margin of 13.80%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 138.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.26 earnings per share.

Heartland Express declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 17th. Investors of record on Tuesday, March 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.02 per share on Friday, April 7th. This represents a $0.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.51%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 27th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) stock in their portfolio include Conductor Global Equity Value ETF (CGV), First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT), iShares US Small Cap Value Factor ETF (SVAL), SPDR SSGA US Small Cap Low Volatility Index ETF (SMLV), Invesco S&P SmallCap Industrials ETF (PSCI), Timothy Plan US Small Cap Core ETF (TPSC), VictoryShares US Discovery Enhanced Volatility Wtd ETF (CSF) and Small Cap US Equity Select ETF (RNSC).

Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.51%. The dividend payout ratio is 4.73%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, HTLD will have a dividend payout ratio of 6.30% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Heartland Express declared that its board has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Friday, August 20th 2021, which authorizes the company to buyback 3,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

124 employees have rated Heartland Express Chief Executive Officer Michael Gerdin on Glassdoor.com. Michael Gerdin has an approval rating of 69% among the company's employees.

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Heartland Express trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "HTLD."

Heartland Express' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include American Century Companies Inc. (10.11%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.78%), ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC (3.19%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.17%), Morgan Stanley (1.11%) and GW&K Investment Management LLC (0.91%). Insiders that own company stock include Ann S Gerdin Revocable Trust, David Paul Millis, James G Pratt, Michael J Gerdin and Michael John Sullivan.
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Shares of HTLD stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of HTLD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $15.76.

Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) has a market capitalization of $1.24 billion and generates $968 million in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $133.58 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.69 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 6,500 workers across the globe.

Heartland Express' mailing address is 901 NORTH KANSAS AVENUE, NORTH LIBERTY IA, 52317. The official website for the company is www.heartlandexpress.com. The transportation company can be reached via phone at (319) 626-3600 or via fax at 319-626-3311.