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Heartland Express, Inc. (HTLD) Company Bio

Heartland Express operates as a short-to-medium haul truckload carrier of general commodities in the United States and Canada. The company was founded in 1978 and is based in North Liberty, Iowa.

HTLD Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

We started the process of determining a valid price forecast for Heartland Express Inc with a discounted cash flow analysis -- the results of which can be found in the table below. To summarize, we found that Heartland Express Inc ranked in the 39st percentile in terms of potential gain offered. Our DCF analysis suggests the stock is overvalued by about 44.83%. As for the metrics that stood out in our discounted cash flow analysis of Heartland Express Inc, consider:

• Interest coverage, a measure of earnings relative to interest payments, is 244.36 -- which is good for besting 98.17% of its peer stocks (US stocks in the Industrials sector with positive cash flow).
• The business' balance sheet reveals debt to be 3% of the company's capital (with equity being the remaining amount). Approximately merely 12.74% of US stocks with free cash flow have a lower reliance on debt in their capital structure.
• HTLD's estimated cost of debt, based largely on its market capitalization and its interest coverage ratio, is 3%; for context, that number is higher than 56.25% of tickers in our DCF set.

For other companies in the Industrials that have a similar discounted cashflow valuation profile (and ensuing price forecasts) as HTLD, try NL, ALLE, CTAS, GFF, and LMT.