Heartland

Truckload carrier Heartland Express (NASDAQ: HTLD) announced Friday a 50-cent-per-share special dividend. The North Liberty, Iowa-based company also announced an increase of 3 million shares to its buyback program. The special dividend was announced in addition to its regular quarterly cash...

Heartland Express (NASDAQ: HTLD) is learning that higher pay alone is not going to be enough to retain drivers. In a presentation to the UBS Global Industrials and Transportation conference earlier this week, two executives from the company told the virtual gathering that while Heartland had...

Goldman Sachs upgraded Global Payments Inc (NYSE: GPN) to Buy from Neutral and sees 20 percent upside potential with its new price target of $88 (up from $80) on sustainable growth from OpenEdge and under-appreciated synergies from the Heartland deal. "Our bottom-up analysis suggests that Global's...