Heartland Express, Inc.
General ticker "HTLD" information:
- Sector: Industrials
- Industry: Ground Transportation
- Capitalization: $738.5M (TTM average)
Heartland Express, Inc. follows the US Stock Market performance with the rate: 4.1%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 2.7%: low 8.45$, high 8.91$
Factors to consider:
- Company pays dividends (quarterly): last record date 2025-09-23, amount 0.02$ (Y0.89%)
- Total employees count: 5220 as of 2024
- Top business risk factors: Economic downturns and volatility, Driver shortages and increased compensation costs, Supply and demand imbalances affecting freight rates, Pandemic risks, Regulatory and compliance
- Price in estimated range
- Earnings for 9 months up through Q3 are below our estimates
Stock Forecast*
* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions
Long term estimates were made for the period from 2024-12-31 to 2026-12-31
- 2024-12-31 to 2025-12-31 estimated range: [7.59$, 12.99$]
- 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [7.91$, 13.40$]
Financial Metrics affecting the HTLD estimates:
- Negative: with PPE of -30.4 at the end of fiscal year the price was very high
- Positive: -3.60 < Operating profit margin, % of -1.88
- Positive: Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 16.32 > 13.24
- Positive: -2.95 < Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of -2.18
- Positive: Interest expense per share per price, % of 1.99 <= 3.41
- Negative: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -5.26 <= -4.48
- Negative: Industry operating profit margin (median), % of 2.24 <= 2.97
- Positive: 5.52 < Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 8.85
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Financial data
| YTD | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $968.00MM | $1,248.55MM | $1,055.02MM |
| Operating Expenses | $876.54MM | $1,206.16MM | $1,075.26MM |
| Operating Income | $91.45MM | $42.38MM | $-20.24MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $89.64MM | $-22.53MM | $-16.44MM |
| Interest Expense | $8.55MM | $24.19MM | $17.58MM |
| Income(Loss) | $181.09MM | $19.85MM | $-36.67MM |
| Taxes | $47.51MM | $5.08MM | $-6.95MM |
| Profit(Loss)* | $133.58MM | $14.78MM | $-29.72MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $855.48MM | $865.26MM | $822.60MM |
| Assets | $1,669.49MM | $1,509.65MM | $1,334.19MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $194.71MM | $165.27MM | $144.35MM |
| Capital expenditure | $160.57MM | $208.60MM | $109.54MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-663.26MM | $-67.87MM | $-46.54MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $359.26MM | $-120.69MM | $-112.71MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $1.69 | $0.19 | $-0.38 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.