HTLD Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Heartland Express | NASDAQ:HTLD)

Heartland Express Inc, along with its subsidiaries, operates as a short, medium, and long-haul truckload carrier and transportation services provider. It mainly provides nationwide asset-based dry van truckload service for shippers across the United States, along with cross-border freight and other transportation services offered through third-party partnerships in Mexico. The group operates under the brand names of Heartland Express, Millis Transfer, Smith Transport, and CFI (for services within Mexico).

Heartland Express trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol HTLD.

As of September 4, 2026, HTLD stock price climbed to $12.44 with 546,825 million shares trading.

HTLD has a beta of 0.53, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HTLD has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HTLD has a market cap of $962.02 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Heartland Express reported $184 million in Revenue and $.14 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-7 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.13.

In the last 3 years, HTLD traded as high as $16.64 and as low as $7.00.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that HTLD belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, AVUV, VXF, DFAT, DFSV.

HTLD has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +48.5%, while the SPY ETF gained +20.8%. However, in the most recent history, HTLD shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning -17.9% in the last 3 month period and +0.6% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +2.4% and +1.0%, respectively.

HTLD support price is $12.03 and resistance is $12.69 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HTLD shares will trade within this expected range on the day.