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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.

Heartland Express (HTLD) possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.

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, Sept. 17, 2024 (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 October 7, 2024, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 27, 2024. We currently estimate that a total of approximately $1.6 million will be paid on the Company's 78.5 million shares of common stock. This is the Company's eighty-fifth consecutive quarterly cash dividend. With the payment of this dividend, the Company will have paid a total of $553.6 million in cash dividends, including four special dividends since the dividend program was implemented in the third quarter of 2003.