After Hours
After-hours and pre-market trading may carry slightly higher risks than regular market hours. As issuers often announce important financial information outside regular trading hours, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads for a particular security. That is because extended-hours trading may result in lower liquidity and higher volatility.
Stocks Info
HTLD belongs to the Industrials sector of the NASDAQ while operating in the Trucking industry. The current market capitalization of Heartland Express, Inc is $597.59M. A total of 0.57 million shares were traded on the day, compared to an average of 633.52K shares.
In the most recent transaction, GERDIN MICHAEL J bought 24,798 shares of HTLD for 8.19 per share on Aug 18 ’25. After the transaction, the Chief Executive Officer now owns 1,491,868 company shares. In a previous transaction on Aug 15 ’25, GERDIN MICHAEL J bought 3,888 shares at 8.20 per share. HTLD shares that Chief Executive Officer owns now total 1,467,070.
Among the insiders who bought shares, GERDIN MICHAEL J acquired of 1,314 shares on Aug 14 ’25 at a per-share price of $8.20. This resulted in the Chief Executive Officer holding 1,463,182 shares of HTLD after the transaction. In another insider transaction, PRATT JAMES G bought 6,571 shares at $8.96 per share on May 14 ’25. Company shares held by the Director now total 30,000.
While price targets are rarely accurate, they tend to exert some kind of influence from time to time and are often taken into account by investors. In terms of 52-week highs and lows, HTLD has a high of $12.85 and a low of $7.11.
As of this writing, HTLD has an earnings estimate of -$0.12 per share for the current quarter. EPS was calculated based on a consensus of 3.0 estimates, with a high estimate of -$0.11 per share and a lower estimate of -$0.13. The company reported an EPS of -$0.02 in the last quarter
Balance Sheet Annually/Quarterly
An organization’s balance sheet depicts the assets and liabilities it has, as well as the amount of equity invested. Investors can measure a company’s prospects by calculating its financial ratios using this information. HTLD’s latest balance sheet shows that the firm has $157.74M in Cash & Short Term Investments as of fiscal 2021. There were $0.00 in debt and $71.59M in liabilities at the time. Its Book Value Per Share was $10.02, while its Total Shareholder’s Equity was $727.10M.
Analysts Opinion
There is a slight risk associated with trading before and after the market open. Due to lower liquidity and higher volatility, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads on particular security due to the release of critical financial information after regular trading hours. Currently, 0 analysts are providing their opinions on the stock. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being Sell and 5 being Buy, the average analyst rating for HTLD is Buy with a score of 2.43.
