Heartland Express, Inc. (HTLD)

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Heartland Express, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2024-12-04); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2018-03-13) (its current reports).

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Heartland Express, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $613 million in fiscal 2016 to $806 million in fiscal 2025, up 3.1% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 33% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Heartland Express, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 9% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $31 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Heartland Express, Inc. lost about 7 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 37 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Heartland Express, Inc.'s standing among 13 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $806 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 12% by size; a net margin of -6.5% ranks in the bottom 12%; revenue growth of -5.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

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Heartland Express, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gerdin, Michael J (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2012-07-02, 14.4 years (top 12% of its family); the 8 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.6 years (top 27%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 8 people in charge now (bottom 4%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Heartland Express, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $18 million against debt of $154 million leaves -11.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 42% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -8.3% of revenue (bottom 4%) (its annual report).

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Heartland Express, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -5.9% a year over the last three filed years against 3.1% over all 10, slowing (top 35% of its family); the newest year grew -23.1% (bottom 4%); capital spending grew -0.9% a year (top 37%) (its annual reports). Heartland Express, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Heartland Express, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $806 million in fiscal 2025 came in 26.1% below the $1.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 4% of its family); net income of $52 million against a prior three-year average of $40 million (bottom 12%); a net margin of -6.5% against 4.1% before (bottom 19%) (its annual reports).