Heartland Express, Inc. (HTLD)
Industrials · NMS
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 08:17 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Heartland Express, Inc. trades at $11.61, which is 17% above the $9.67 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 22 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
HTLD dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.060 | 3 |
| 2025 | $0.080 | 4 |
| 2024 | $0.080 | 4 |
| 2023 | $0.080 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.080 | 4 |
| 2021 | $0.580 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.080 | 4 |
| 2019 | $0.080 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.080 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.080 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.080 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
HTLD earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 6 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Heartland Express, Inc.
Heartland Express, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides short, medium, and long-haul truckload carrier and transportation services in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It primarily provides nationwide asset-based dry van truckload services for shippers; cross-border freight and other transportation services; and temperature-controlled truckload services. The company offers its services under the Heartland Express, Millis Transfer, Smith Transport, and CFI brand names. It primarily serves retailers, manufacturers, and parcel carriers in the consumer goods, appliances, food products, and automotive industries. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in North Liberty, Iowa.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
HTLD passes 1 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
8 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$20.92M · 0.0% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$20.88M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$7.39M · 0.0% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$5.79M · 0.0% of book
- Tweedy Browne, Tweedy, Browne Co LLC$2.10M · 0.2% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in HTLD
Trades in HTLD disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Gilbert Cisneros · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 31 Mar 2020 · disclosed 16 Apr 2020
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
HTLD peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Trucking), then in the same sector.
- KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc.
- SAIA Saia, Inc.
- SNDR Schneider National, Inc.
- RXO RXO, Inc.
- ULH Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc.
- ETS Elite Express Holding Inc.
- YGMZF MingZhu Logistics Holdings Limited
- ATCO-A.ST Atlas Copco
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Common questions
Is Heartland Express, Inc. (HTLD) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $9.67, HTLD at $11.61 is 17% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own HTLD?
8 of the institutions we track reported a position in HTLD in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
Does Heartland Express, Inc. (HTLD) pay a dividend?
Yes. Heartland Express, Inc. yields 0.54% at the current share price. It has paid $0.080 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 23 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its HTLD data?
Fundamentals for HTLD come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 08:17 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 88/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.