Heartland Express Stock Forecast

Stock Price Forecast

The 4 analysts with 12-month price forecasts for Heartland Express stock have an average target of 11.5, with a low estimate of 10 and a high estimate of 14. The average target predicts an increase of 5.50% from the current stock price of 10.90.

Analyst Consensus: Sell

Target	Low	Average	Median	High
Price	$10	$11.5	$12	$14
Change	-8.26%	+5.50%	+10.09%	+28.44%

Analyst Ratings

The average analyst rating for HTLD stock from 4 stock analysts is "Sell". This means that analysts believe this stock is likely to lead to lower returns than market as a whole.

Recommendation Trends

Rating	Jun '24	Jul '24	Aug '24	Sep '24	Oct '24	Nov '24
Strong Buy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Buy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hold	3	3	2	2	2	2
Sell	1	2	2	2	2	2
Strong Sell	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	4	5	4	4	4	4

Latest Forecasts

Analyst	Firm	Rating	Rating	Action	Price Target	Upside	Date
Brandon Oglenski Barclays	Barclays	Sell Maintains $11 → $10	Sell	Maintains	$11 → $10	-8.26%	Nov 4, 2024
Thomas Wadewitz UBS	UBS	Hold Maintains $13 → $12	Hold	Maintains	$13 → $12	+10.09%	Oct 30, 2024
Brandon Oglenski Barclays	Barclays	Sell Maintains $10 → $11	Sell	Maintains	$10 → $11	+0.92%	Aug 1, 2024
Thomas Wadewitz UBS	UBS	Strong Buy → Hold Downgrades $15 → $13	Strong Buy → Hold	Downgrades	$15 → $13	+19.27%	Jul 9, 2024
Brian Ossenbeck JP Morgan	JP Morgan	Hold → Sell Downgrades $12 → $10	Hold → Sell	Downgrades	$12 → $10	-8.26%	Jul 9, 2024

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Financial Forecast

Revenue This Year

1.09B

from 1.21B

-9.56%

from 1.21B

Revenue Next Year

1.12B

from 1.09B

2.75%

from 1.09B

EPS This Year

-0.28

from 0.19

EPS Next Year

0.21

from -0.28

Fiscal Year	FY 2019	FY 2020	FY 2021	FY 2022	FY 2023	FY 2024	FY 2025	FY 2026
Period Ending	Dec 31, 2019	Dec 31, 2020	Dec 31, 2021	Dec 31, 2022	Dec 31, 2023	Dec 31, 2024	Dec 31, 2025	Dec 31, 2026
Revenue	596.82M	645.26M	607.28M	968.00M	1.21B	1.09B	1.12B	1.18B
Revenue Growth	-2.29%	8.12%	-5.89%	59.40%	24.74%	-9.56%	2.75%	5.26%
EPS	0.89	0.87	1.00	1.69	0.19	-0.28	0.21	0.63
EPS Growth	1.14%	-2.25%	14.52%	69.63%	-88.93%	-	-	199.12%
Forward PE	-	-	-	-	-	-	51.42	17.19
No. Analysts	-	-	-	-	-	8	8	8

Historical EPS numbers are GAAP, while forecasted numbers may be non-GAAP.

Revenue Forecast

Revenue	2024	2025	2026
High	1.2B	1.3B	1.4B
Avg	1.1B	1.1B	1.2B
Low	1.0B	1.0B	1.1B

Revenue Growth

Revenue Growth	2024	2025	2026
High	-4.5%	17.9%	21.8%
Avg	-9.6%	2.7%	5.3%
Low	-14.3%	-6.4%	-6.0%

EPS Forecast

EPS	2024	2025	2026
High	-0.24	0.46	0.98
Avg	-0.28	0.21	0.63
Low	-0.38	0.10	0.49

EPS Growth

EPS Growth	2024	2025	2026
High	-	-	360.6%
Avg	-	-	199.1%
Low	-	-	131.1%

Sources: Price targets and analyst ratings provided by Benzinga. Revenue and EPS forecast data provided by Finnhub. The data is sourced from Wall Street analysts. Data disclaimer.