Heartland Express, Inc. (HTLD) To Go Ex-Dividend on March 25th

Heartland Express, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTLD) announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 20th, RTT News reports. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 25th will be paid a dividend of 0.02 per share by the transportation company on Friday, April 4th. This represents a $0.08 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.86%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 25th.

Heartland Express has a dividend payout ratio of 13.3% indicating that its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Research analysts expect Heartland Express to earn $0.77 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $0.08 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 10.4%.

Heartland Express Trading Down 0.6 %

Shares of HTLD opened at $9.28 on Friday. Heartland Express has a 12-month low of $9.11 and a 12-month high of $13.67. The company has a quick ratio of 1.17, a current ratio of 1.08 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. The firm has a market capitalization of $728.94 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -25.08 and a beta of 0.80. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $10.72 and its 200 day moving average price is $11.39.

Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January 28th. The transportation company reported ($0.02) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.04) by $0.02. Heartland Express had a negative return on equity of 3.57% and a negative net margin of 2.84%. As a group, research analysts predict that Heartland Express will post 0.17 earnings per share for the current year.

About Heartland Express

Heartland Express, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a short-to-medium, and long-haul truckload carrier in the United States and Canada. It primarily provides nationwide asset-based dry van truckload service for shippers; cross-border freight and other transportation services; and temperature-controlled truckload services.