HTLD Stock Recent News

Insider buying has been fairly slow since the beginning of the month, due largely to the current first-quarter earnings reporting season.

Heartland Express (HTLD) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.18 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.13. This compares to loss of $0.19 per share a year ago.

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa, April 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heartland Express, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTLD) announced today financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2025. Three months ended March 31, 2025: Operating Revenue of $219.4 million , Net Loss of $13.9 million , Basic Loss per Share of $0.18 , Operating Ratio of 106.8% and 107.1% Non-GAAP Adjusted Operating Ratio (1) , Total Assets of $1.3 billion , including $23.9 million of Cash, Stockholders' Equity of $807.7 million.

Heartland Express (HTLD) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa, March 14, 2025 (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 4, 2025, to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 25, 2025. We currently estimate that a total of approximately $1.6 million will be paid on the Company's 78.7 million shares of common stock. This is the Company's eighty-seventh consecutive quarterly cash dividend. With the payment of this dividend, the Company will have paid a total of $556.8 million in cash dividends, including four special dividends since the dividend program was implemented in the third quarter of 2003.

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa, March 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heartland Express, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTLD) announced that Chris Strain, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in the J.P. Morgan Industrials Conference on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. Mr. Strain will participate in a fireside chat at 4:40 p.m. Eastern Time. A link to a live webcast of the fireside chat will be available on our website at www.heartlandexpress.com/investors. A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days following the presentation.

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Heartland Express's stock could double in 2-3 years as freight rates stabilize and the company continues deleveraging and integrating recent acquisitions. Despite a 47.42% decline in share price, Heartland Express is poised for a turnaround due to effective management and a cyclical upswing in the trucking industry. The company has reduced over $300 million in debt since 2022, aiming for a debt-free balance sheet, which should significantly de-risk the business.

Although the revenue and EPS for Heartland Express (HTLD) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended December 2024, 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 $0.02 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.04. This compares to earnings of $0.06 per share a year ago.