Valuation
26% of the score
0median 13
An operating loss over the last year: there are no earnings to price.
HTLDHeartland Express, Inc.
$11.45+34% 1Y
$11.45
$7.0452 weeks$16.20
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 35 out of 100, Below average
Below average. Heartland Express, Inc. scores higher than 30% of the 1,794 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by cycle position and capital allocation, held back by valuation and return on new capital.
Industrials median 53 · all companies 50
Return on capital
18% of the score
18median 34
Over 7 years the business earned 4.4% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
4.4%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
7 years agolatest -5%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
0median 49
Over 6 years yearly profit fell by 66 cents for every dollar earned. New capital earned -28%, and 237% of profit went back into the business.
-5%
12%
-66%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points
Capital allocation
14% of the score
78median 64
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countDown 0.9% a year over 5 years: buybacks
745%
-3%
-0.9%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 4.6% a year, sales 4.5%
8512%
-2%
0.1%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
100median 62
Today's operating margin of -2.3% is -0.19x its normal 12%: near a trough. Normal is half the 10 year median, half the last four years, so a margin that has held is not taken for a peak.
2x
1.5x
1x
0.7x
-0.2x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow -2.3%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
41median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Net debt to EBITDA1.2x a year of EBITDA
814.5x
0.5x
1.2x
0 pointsfull points
Interest coverOperating profit covers interest -2x
01.5x
12x
-1.5x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
100median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 11.2% of assets
1008%
0%
-8%
-11%
0 pointsfull points
How the RyuScore works
Each criterion earns 0 to 100 points on the scale drawn under it, and the RyuScore is their average weighted 26, 18, 16, 14, 12, 8 and 6. Scales bend in the company's favour between their ends, so an ordinary figure is never already near zero. Where a criterion cannot be measured from the filings it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up; a company needs 60% of the weight covered, and always a price, to get a score.
Built from the company's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC and today's share price. Banks, insurers and property trusts are not scored: their debt is their raw material, so these yardsticks mean something else there. Figures as of 2026-06-30, latest annual report FY2025.