Heartland Express (HTLD) Q2 2026 earnings — TrendMatrix coverage
Reported
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Key numbers
- Reported EPS
- $0.14
- Estimate
- -$0.01
- Surprise
- +2445.1%
- Score today
- 4.6/10
Revenue for this quarter isn’t shown: the reported figure hasn’t cleared TrendMatrix’s freshness and sanity checks yet, and consensus revenue isn’t tracked. EPS above is the available figure.
How the report landed
Heartland Express (HTLD) beat the -$0.01 estimate with diluted EPS of $0.14 — a large 2445.1% upside surprise.
Where TrendMatrix's rating stands now
TrendMatrix currently rates HTLD Sell at 4.6/10; no pre/post engine snapshot brackets this report.
3 of the last 4 quarters beat the estimate; this quarter's +2445.1% surprise compares with a +633.2% four-quarter average. Next scheduled report: 2026-10-29.
What argues against it
- Target reached (-10.6% upside)
- Quality below floor (1.9 < 4.0)
- Value-trap signals (2/5): High leverage (D/E 2.2), Material insider selling (14 sells, 0.17% of cap)
This section and the ones below it reflect TrendMatrix’s latest engine read — they update after the report date and are not frozen to it.
The levels TrendMatrix's engine tracks
- Current price
- $12.84
- Price target
- $14.01
- Stop
- $11.94
- Upside to target
- +9.1%
Model outputs from TrendMatrix’s engine as of 2026-08-23 — shown for context, not personalized investment advice.
HTLD at TrendMatrix's latest read
Industrial quarters are order-book stories — backlog and book-to-bill color how the market reads the reported number.
- Industry
- Trucking
- Market cap
- $993.0M
- P/E (fwd)
- 25.6
- 52-week range
- $7.00–$16.64
- Off 52-week high
- 22.8%
- RSI (14)
- 58
- Volume vs avg
- 0.72×
- Score today
- 4.6/10