NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa, March 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of Heartland Express, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTLD) announced today the declaration of a regular quarterly cash dividend. The $0.02 per share dividend will be paid on April 5, 2024, to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 26, 2024. We currently estimate that a total of approximately $1.6 million will be paid on the Company's 79.1 million shares of common stock. This is the Company's eighty-third consecutive quarterly cash dividend. With the payment of this dividend, the Company will have paid a total of $550.5 million in cash dividends, including four special dividends since the dividend program was implemented in the third quarter of 2003.
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Michael J. Gerdin, CEO
Christopher A. Strain, CFO
Heartland Express, Inc.
319-645-7060
