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 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Heartland Express' stock. Their HTLD share price forecasts range from $13.00 to $18.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $15.83 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.2%.
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Heartland Express' stock was trading at $16.82 at the beginning of the year. Since then, HTLD shares have decreased by 0.7% and is now trading at $16.71.
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Heartland Express saw a decrease in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,440,000 shares, a decrease of 23.8% from the October 31st total of 1,890,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 330,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.4 days. Approximately 3.1% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 19th 2023.
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Heartland Express, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTLD) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 14th. The transportation company reported $0.31 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.30 by $0.01. The transportation company had revenue of $152.60 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $159.41 million. Heartland Express had a net margin of 18.18% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.70%. The firm's revenue was down 6.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.25 earnings per share.

Heartland Express announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.02 per share on Monday, December 19th. This represents a $0.08 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 8th.
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Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.48%. The dividend payout ratio is 4.57%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, HTLD will have a dividend payout ratio of 6.90% 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 approved a stock buyback plan on Friday, August 20th 2021, which permits the company to repurchase 3,000,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often a sign that the company's board believes its stock is 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 investors include BlackRock Inc. (9.80%), Vanguard Group Inc. (6.74%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.83%), State Street Corp (2.57%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.71%) and Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.44%). Insiders that own company stock include Ann S Gerdin Revocable Trust, Brenda S Neville, 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 $16.71.

Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) has a market capitalization of $1.32 billion and generates $607.28 million in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $79.28 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.75 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,180 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.