---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000799233-25-000055"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HTLD"
cik: "0000799233"
company_name: "HEARTLAND EXPRESS INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:40:07.166913+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Heartland Express declares $0.02/share quarterly dividend, payable Jan 7, 2026

## Summary
- Dividend of $0.02 per share paid on Jan 7, 2026 to holders of record Dec 26, 2025.
- Total dividend payment estimated at ~$1.6 million on ~78 million shares outstanding.
- This is the 90th consecutive quarterly cash dividend since program began in Q3 2003.
- Cumulative dividends paid (including four special dividends) total $561.4 million.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000799233-25-000055
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HTLD
- cik: 0000799233
- company_name: HEARTLAND EXPRESS INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799233/000079923325000055/0000799233-25-000055-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799233/000079923325000055/htld-20251216.htm

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