Heartland Express, Inc.·Industrials

Shares of Heartland Express, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTLD - Get Free Report) have been assigned a consensus rating of "Reduce" from the seven research firms that are covering the firm, Marketbeat reports. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating and one has issued a strong buy rating

Heartland Express, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTLD - Get Free Report) was the target of a significant decline in short interest during the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 1,741,727 shares, a decline of 20.2% from the February 26th total of 2,183,093 shares. Currently, 3.8% of the company's stock are short sold.

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa, March 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of Heartland Express, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTLD) announced today the declaration of a regular quarterly cash dividend. The $0.02 per share dividend will be paid on April 3, 2026, to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 24, 2026. We currently estimate that a total of $1.6 million will be paid on the Company's approximate seventy-eight million shares of common stock. This is the Company's ninety-first consecutive quarterly cash dividend. With the payment of this dividend, the Company will have paid a total of $563.0 million in cash dividends, including four special dividends since the dividend program was implemented in the third quarter of 2003.

Heartland Express, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTLD - Get Free Report)'s stock price hit a new 52-week high on Wednesday after the company announced better than expected quarterly earnings. The stock traded as high as $11.86 and last traded at $11.78, with a volume of 1132320 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $11.08. The transportation company

Although the revenue and EPS for Heartland Express (HTLD) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended December 2025, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.

Heartland Express (HTLD) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.06 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.07. This compares to a loss of $0.02 per share a year ago.
Heartland Express, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a short-to-medium haul truckload carrier in the United States and Canada. It primarily provides nationwide asset-based dry van truckload service for shippers from Washington to Florida and New England to California; and temperature-controlled truckload services. The company offers its services under the Heartland Express and Millis Transfer brand names. It primarily serves retailers and manufacturers in consumer goods, appliances, food products, and automotive industries. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in North Liberty, Iowa.
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