Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (HTLF) Dividends

HTLF Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. As for HTLF, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a negative return of 25.33%. Digging deeper, the aspects of Heartland Financial Usa Inc's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• Beta is a measure of volatility relative to the stock market at large; when evaluated against its peers in the small-sized revenue class, Heartland Financial Usa Inc has a beta lower than 35.21% of such peers.
• The stock's annual revenue of roughly $707 million puts it in the small-sized revenue class, where its estimated gain based on our dividend discount model price relative to its current share price is greater than 34.52% of companies in the same revenue class.
• In terms of who is growing the amount of dividends they return to shareholders, HTLF boasts a higher growth rate in terms of its annual cash distributed to its owners than 93.01% of the dividend issuers in our set.

HTLF Dividends vs. Peers