NASDAQ:HTLD - Heartland Express Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Heartland Express declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 25th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.02 per share on Friday, December 20th. This represents a $0.08 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 9th. View Heartland Express' Dividend History.

Heartland Express declared that its board has initiated a share repurchase program on Friday, May 11th 2018, which permits the company to buyback 5,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Heartland Express, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTLD) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 23rd. The transportation company reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.07. The transportation company earned $167.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $170.47 million. Heartland Express had a return on equity of 11.18% and a net margin of 12.23%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 13.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.27 earnings per share. View Heartland Express' Earnings History.

Heartland Express is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 16th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Heartland Express.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Heartland Express' stock. Their forecasts range from $16.00 to $25.00. On average, they expect Heartland Express' share price to reach $20.83 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Heartland Express.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Heartland Express in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Heartland Express.

News articles about HTLD stock have trended somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Heartland Express earned a news impact score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the transportation company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Heartland Express.

Heartland Express saw a increase in short interest during the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 1,670,000 shares, an increase of 7.7% from the January 30th total of 1,550,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 264,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.3 days. Approximately 4.0% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Heartland Express' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Heartland Express include Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), J B Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), AMERCO (UHAL), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Landstar System (LSTR), Avis Budget Group (CAR), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Saia (SAIA), Ryder System (R), Hertz Global (HTZ), Marten Transport (MRTN), FRP (FRPH) and Roadrunner Transportation Systems (RRTS).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Heartland Express investors own include CA (CA), Endologix (ELGX), BlackRock (BLK), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), NIC (EGOV), Continental Resources (CLR), Express (EXPR), Transocean (RIG), Southwest Airlines (LUV) and Baidu (BIDU).

Heartland Express' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC (7.07%), State Street Corp (1.86%), GW&K Investment Management LLC (1.39%), UBS Group AG (1.31%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.85%) and Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.79%). Company insiders that own Heartland Express stock include Brenda S Neville, Kent Daryl Rigdon, Larry J Gordon, Michael John Sullivan and Tahira K Hira. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Heartland Express.

HTLD stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Man Group plc, Renaissance Technologies LLC, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, AlphaCrest Capital Management LLC, Castleark Management LLC and GW&K Investment Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Heartland Express company stock in the last year include Kent Daryl Rigdon and Larry J Gordon. View Insider Buying and Selling for Heartland Express.

HTLD stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including UBS Group AG, ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC, Aviva PLC, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, State Street Corp, Spark Investment Management LLC, Credit Suisse AG and Granite Investment Partners LLC. Company insiders that have bought Heartland Express stock in the last two years include Brenda S Neville, Michael John Sullivan and Tahira K Hira. View Insider Buying and Selling for Heartland Express.

Shares of HTLD can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of HTLD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $18.16.

Heartland Express has a market capitalization of $1.49 billion and generates $596.82 million in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $72.97 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.89 on an earnings per share basis. Heartland Express employs 3,450 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Heartland Express.

The official website for Heartland Express is http://www.heartlandexpress.com/.

Heartland Express' mailing address is 901 NORTH KANSAS AVENUE, NORTH LIBERTY IA, 52317. The transportation company can be reached via phone at 319-626-3600.