During the last session, Heartland Express, Inc (NASDAQ:HTLD)’s traded shares were 0.76 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.07. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $8.65, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.80% or -$0.07. The 52-week high for the HTLD share is $13.67, that puts it down -58.03 from that peak though still a striking 17.8% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $7.11. The company’s market capitalization is $679.49M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 0.41 million shares, and the average trade volume was 576.13K shares over the past three months.
Heartland Express, Inc (HTLD) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.80. HTLD has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 4 analysts who have looked at this stock. 3 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 0 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Heartland Express, Inc (NASDAQ:HTLD) trade information
Heartland Express, Inc (HTLD) registered a -0.80% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.80% in intraday trading to $8.65, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -2.37%, and it has moved by -3.67% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -26.13%. The short interest in Heartland Express, Inc (NASDAQ:HTLD) is 1.97 million shares and it means that shorts have 2.47 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $17, which implies an increase of 49.12% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $14 and $18 respectively. As a result, HTLD is trading at a discount of -108.09% off the target high and -61.85% off the low.
While earnings are projected to return 25.27% in 2025.
HTLD Dividends
Heartland Express, Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-30. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Heartland Express, Inc is 0.08, with the dividend yield indicating at 0.92 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 0.56%.
Heartland Express, Inc (NASDAQ:HTLD)’s Major holders
Heartland Express, Inc insiders own 51.42% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 49.31%, with the float percentage being 101.51%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 264.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 7.09 million shares (or 8.9792% of all shares), a total value of $87.37 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 5.03 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 6.3782% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $62.06 million.
