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HTLD vs LSTR

Side-by-side comparison of Heartland Express Inc. (HTLD) and Landstar System Inc. (LSTR): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both HTLD and LSTR operate in Trucking Freight/Courier Services (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • LSTR is the larger of the two at $5.94B, about 5.1x HTLD ($1.16B).
  • Over the past year, HTLD is up 63.1% and LSTR is up 32.2% - HTLD leads by 30.8 points.
  • HTLD has been more active in the news (4 items in the past 4 weeks vs 2 for LSTR).
  • LSTR has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 10 for HTLD).
PerformanceHTLD+63.08%LSTR+32.25%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricHTLDLSTR
Company
Heartland Express Inc.
Landstar System Inc.
Price
$13.03+8.40%
$178.96-0.53%
Market cap
$1.16B
$5.94B
1M return
+25.89%
+13.93%
1Y return
+63.08%
+32.25%
Industry
Trucking Freight/Courier Services
Trucking Freight/Courier Services
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
1986
1993
News (4w)
4
2
Recent ratings
10
25
HTLD

Heartland Express Inc.

Heartland Express, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a short-to-medium haul truckload carrier in the United States and Canada. It primarily provides nationwide asset-based dry van truckload service for shippers from Washington to Florida and New England to California; and temperature-controlled truckload services. The company offers its services under Heartland Express and Millis Transfer brand names. It provides traffic appliances, automotive parts, consumer products, paper products, packaged foodstuffs, and retail goods. The company principally serves retailers and manufacturers. Heartland Express, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in North Liberty, Iowa.

LSTR

Landstar System Inc.

Landstar System, Inc. provides integrated transportation management solutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Transportation Logistics, and Insurance. The Transportation Logistics segment offers a range of transportation services, including truckload and less-than-truckload transportation, rail intermodal, air cargo, ocean cargo, expedited ground and air delivery of time-critical freight, heavy-haul/specialized, U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico cross-border, intra-Mexico, intra-Canada, project cargo, and customs brokerage, as well as offers transportation services to other transportation companies, such as third party logistics and less-than-truckload service providers. It provides truck services through dry and specialty vans of various sizes, unsided/platform trailers, temperature-controlled vans, and containers; rail intermodal services through contracts with domestic and Canadian railroads; and air and ocean services through contracts with domestic and international airlines and ocean lines. This segment serves the automotive parts and assemblies, consumer durables, building products, metals, chemicals, foodstuffs, heavy machinery, retail, electronics, and military equipment industries. The Insurance segment reinsures certain risks of the company's independent contractors. The company markets its services through independent commission sales agents and third party capacity providers. Landstar System, Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

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