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HTLD vs UPS

Side-by-side comparison of Heartland Express Inc. (HTLD) and United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both HTLD and UPS operate in Trucking Freight/Courier Services (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • UPS is the larger of the two at $172.31B, about 148.0x HTLD ($1.16B).
  • Over the past year, HTLD is up 63.1% and UPS is up 10.3% - HTLD leads by 52.8 points.
  • UPS has been more active in the news (5 items in the past 4 weeks vs 4 for HTLD).
  • UPS has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 10 for HTLD).
PerformanceHTLD+63.08%UPS+10.25%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricHTLDUPS
Company
Heartland Express Inc.
United Parcel Service Inc.
Price
$13.03+8.40%
$107.03-0.66%
Market cap
$1.16B
$172.31B
1M return
+25.89%
+8.85%
1Y return
+63.08%
+10.25%
Industry
Trucking Freight/Courier Services
Trucking Freight/Courier Services
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
1986
1999
News (4w)
4
5
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.

UPS

United Parcel Service Inc.

United Parcel Service, Inc. provides letter and package delivery, transportation, logistics, and financial services. It operates through three segments: U.S. Domestic Package, International Package, and Supply Chain & Freight. The U.S. Domestic Package segment offers time-definite delivery of letters, documents, small packages, and palletized freight through air and ground services in the United States. The International Package segment provides guaranteed day and time-definite international shipping services in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Canada and Latin America, the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East, and Africa. This segment offers guaranteed time-definite express options. The Supply Chain & Freight segment provides international air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, distribution and post-sales, and mail and consulting services in approximately 200 countries and territories; and less-than-truckload and truckload services to customers in North America. This segment also offers truckload brokerage services; supply chain solutions to the healthcare and life sciences industry; shipping, visibility, and billing technologies; and financial and insurance services. The company operates a fleet of approximately 127,000 package cars, vans, tractors, and motorcycles; and owns 58,000 containers that are used to transport cargo in its aircraft. United Parcel Service, Inc. was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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