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Heartland Express

Heartland Express mainly operates in the transport / logistic sector. The past 10 years the (international) industry gained at around 26 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 27 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 26 percent.

The past year was a relatively good year for Heartland Express investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock gained almost 22 percent. Over the past 5 years Heartland Express' stock rose at around 50 percent in value. Heartland Express's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 545,75 million dollars and 736,35 million dollars. The net results between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and fluctuated between 69,93 million dollars and 73,06 million dollars.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average Heartland Express's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 0,4 percent annually.

Healthy financed: not so much debt Heartland Express

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of 736,03 million dollars. Last year the total debt of the company was 266,1 million dollars. This equals around 36,15 percent of the total balance sheet. Last year the transport company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 46. So the investors valued the stock at 46 times 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a growth stock.

At the end of 2015 the transport company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 1,45 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 86,97 million stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

All Heartland Express's annual reports can be found here. More information about Heartland Express can be found it's website. .