Heartland Express, Inc (NASDAQ: HTLD) open the trading on Wednesday, with great promise as it jumped 4.52% to $8.79, before settling in for the price of $8.41 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, HTLD posted a 52-week range of $7.11-$12.85.
Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -35.60%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $77.57 million, simultaneously with a float of $42.90 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $680.41 million. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $8.35, while the 200-day Moving Average is $9.25.
Heartland Express, Inc (HTLD) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Trucking industry. Heartland Express, Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 44.57%, in contrast to 51.20% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Aug 18 ’25, this organization’s Chief Executive Officer bought 24,798 shares at the rate of 8.19, making the entire transaction reach 203,036 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 1,491,868. Preceding that transaction, on Aug 15 ’25, Company’s Chief Executive Officer bought 3,888 for 8.20, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 31,882. This particular insider is now the holder of 1,467,070 in total.
Heartland Express, Inc (HTLD) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.07 per share during the current fiscal year.
Heartland Express, Inc’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -35.60% and is forecasted to reach -0.03 in the upcoming year.
Heartland Express, Inc (NASDAQ: HTLD) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Heartland Express, Inc (HTLD). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.95. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.73.
In the same vein, HTLD’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -0.46, a figure that is expected to reach -0.12 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be -0.03 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Heartland Express, Inc (HTLD)
[Heartland Express, Inc, HTLD] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was superior the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 68.64% While, its Average True Range was 60.81.
Raw Stochastic average of Heartland Express, Inc (HTLD) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 62.34%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 93.33% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 0.25 that was lower than 0.27 volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
