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Heartland Express (HTLD) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Heartland Express (HTLD) has disclosed Return on Sales for 17 consecutive years, with 0.11% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales fell 10.0% to 0.11% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.07%, a 4.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.07%, down 4.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.11% for Q4 2025 at Heartland Express, down from 0.04% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.41% in Q2 2022 to a low of 0.11% in Q4 2025.
  • A 5-year average of 0.04% and a median of 0.02% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: grew 27bps in 2022, then plummeted -38bps in 2023.
  • Heartland Express' Return on Sales stood at 0.14% in 2021, then plummeted by -68bps to 0.04% in 2022, then tumbled by -58bps to 0.02% in 2023, then plummeted by -141bps to 0.01% in 2024, then tumbled by -1318bps to 0.11% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for HTLD's Return on Sales are 0.11% (Q4 2025), 0.04% (Q3 2025), and 0.05% (Q2 2025).