Who owns Heartland Express (HTLD)
Which tracked institutional funds hold HTLD, how they are positioned, and who is buying versus exiting — from SEC Form 13F-HR filings. See HTLD company fundamentals →
Ownership as of the 2026-Q2 13F filings (latest filed 2026-09-22). 13F is disclosed up to 45 days after quarter-end, so the most recent quarter fills in over the following weeks.
How the tape is positioned
The tracked-fund tape on HTLD is one-sided between 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2: 68 added or opened and 11 trimmed or exited — on balance accumulating.
A prompt to read the filings, not a verdict. 13F is a quarter-end snapshot disclosed up to 45 days late; a fund adds or exits for mandate, benchmark, and timing reasons that have nothing to do with a view on the stock. This is a starting question, not a signal to trade.
Conviction spread
HTLD’s largest tracked holder by dollar value, BlackRock, Inc., sizes it at 0.0% of its own reported 13F book, while the median holder sizes it at 0.0% of theirs — a 0.0pp gap the other way — the median holder sizes HTLD more heavily than its largest holder by dollar value does.
Book-share is each fund’s reported value in HTLD divided by its whole reported 13F book, so it is comparable across funds of different sizes and is unaffected by stock splits. A higher share means a fund has committed more of its book to the name — a starting question about conviction, not a verdict or a signal to trade.
Institutional & insider positioning
Between 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2, across 181 tracked filers holding HTLD, 86 increased or opened the position and 91 reduced or closed it; over the same quarter, open-market insider Form 4s were net sales.
This fuses two public signals for the same quarter — how tracked institutions changed their positions and whether insiders bought or sold in the open market. It describes what was filed; it is a starting question, not a verdict or a signal to trade.
New buyers & exits
Funds opening or closing a position in HTLD between the 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2 13F filings, and the largest changes among funds holding it in both. New buyers and exits are counted on fund presence (split-invariant); adds and trims are measured on reported value.
New buyers 14
- FRONTIER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CO LLC$7M
- Boston Partners$2M
- Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC$2M
- Lighthouse Investment Partners, LLC$2M
- MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$1M
- Hudson Bay Capital Management LP$1M
Full exits 7
- BRANDES INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LP$3M
- Lesa Sroufe & Co$2M
- Tidal Investments LLC$2M
- Trexquant Investment LP$887K
- HRT FINANCIAL LP$601K
- Larson Financial Group LLC$520K
Largest adds
- BlackRock, Inc.$34M
- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP$21M
- ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$15M
- STATE STREET CORP$9M
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$8M
- AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC$7M
Largest trims
- GATE CITY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC$12M
- UBS Group AG$1M
- SEI INVESTMENTS CO$264K
- D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$251K
Institutional holders
One row per tracked fund, most shares held first (every row is from one quarter; reported value breaks ties). “% of value” is the fund’s share of this security’s tracked institutional value — not of shares outstanding.
| Fund | Shares | Reported value | % of value | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. added | 6,867,465 | $105M | 18.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP added | 4,003,566 | $61M | 10.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 2,067,376 | $31M | 5.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| STATE STREET CORP trimmed | 1,979,911 | $30M | 5.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC trimmed | 1,735,169 | $26M | 4.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP added | 1,374,534 | $21M | 3.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP trimmed | 1,371,702 | $21M | 3.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC trimmed | 1,174,602 | $18M | 3.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC added | 1,096,054 | $17M | 3.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC trimmed | 973,500 | $15M | 2.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| Wallace Capital Management Inc. trimmed | 965,007 | $15M | 2.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC added | 819,448 | $12M | 2.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC added | 533,534 | $8M | 1.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| MORGAN STANLEY added | 493,746 | $8M | 1.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC trimmed | 491,186 | $7M | 1.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| CITADEL ADVISORS LLC added | 485,506 | $7M | 1.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| EVR Research LP added | 480,000 | $7M | 1.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| FRONTIER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CO LLC new | 468,578 | $7M | 1.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| DEAN INVESTMENT ASSOCIATES, LLC added | 458,623 | $7M | 1.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| NORTHERN TRUST CORP trimmed | 444,818 | $7M | 1.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Nuveen, LLC added | 432,034 | $7M | 1.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 380,401 | $6M | 1.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. added | 358,005 | $5M | 1.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Empowered Funds, LLC added | 356,418 | $5M | 1.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Invesco Ltd. trimmed | 350,290 | $5M | 0.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| Dean Capital Management added | 332,689 | $5M | 0.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| PUNCH & ASSOCIATES INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. added | 331,765 | $5M | 0.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| GATE CITY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC trimmed | 320,299 | $5M | 0.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO trimmed | 299,707 | $5M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ added | 297,158 | $5M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| UBS Group AG trimmed | 294,811 | $4M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| PHOENIX ASSET MANAGEMENT PARTNERS Ltd | 272,419 | $4M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp trimmed | 247,424 | $4M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC trimmed | 220,821 | $3M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC added | 204,308 | $3M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| Legato Capital Management LLC added | 173,484 | $3M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| Boston Partners new | 162,564 | $2M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board trimmed | 156,799 | $2M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| Tweedy, Browne Co LLC added | 138,119 | $2M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| EXCHANGE TRADED CONCEPTS, LLC added | 138,119 | $2M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| CITIGROUP INC added | 125,750 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Quantinno Capital Management LP added | 119,374 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC new | 115,112 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Lighthouse Investment Partners, LLC added | 108,311 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| RHUMBLINE ADVISERS trimmed | 107,479 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO trimmed | 107,216 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Legal & General Group Plc trimmed | 102,481 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| LOS ANGELES CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC added | 102,305 | $2M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC trimmed | 95,031 | $1M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC added | 88,874 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Hudson Bay Capital Management LP added | 87,286 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Swiss National Bank trimmed | 85,500 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Hills Bank & Trust Co | 79,599 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| SummerHaven Investment Management, LLC | 79,234 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| CAXTON ASSOCIATES LLP added | 75,514 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Pullen Investment Management, LLC new | 69,202 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| XTX Topco Ltd added | 65,914 | $1M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| BEACON INVESTMENT ADVISORS LLC trimmed | 64,751 | $986K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| VIRGINIA RETIREMENT SYSTEMS ET Al added | 64,150 | $976K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC added | 64,031 | $975K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Qube Research & Technologies Ltd added | 63,993 | $974K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Prescott General Partners LLC | 60,000 | $913K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Creative Planning trimmed | 59,364 | $904K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| OCCUDO QUANTITATIVE STRATEGIES LP new | 58,975 | $898K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Penn Capital Management Company, LLC added | 58,282 | $887K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| VARCOV Co. new | 55,569 | $846K | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| SEI INVESTMENTS CO trimmed | 55,327 | $842K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ added | 54,803 | $835K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. | 54,675 | $569K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Inspire Investing, LLC trimmed | 53,056 | $808K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Engineers Gate Manager LP trimmed | 49,328 | $751K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| STRS OHIO trimmed | 49,300 | $750K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM trimmed | 43,728 | $666K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Pacific Ridge Capital Partners, LLC trimmed | 40,475 | $616K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| DEUTSCHE BANK AG\ trimmed | 38,891 | $592K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd | 34,234 | $521K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Enhancing Capital LLC | 33,950 | $517K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| CIBC WORLD MARKET INC. new | 33,850 | $515K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN added | 32,657 | $497K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Cherokee Insurance Co | 31,396 | $478K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| BARCLAYS PLC added | 28,905 | $440K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP trimmed | 27,476 | $418K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC trimmed | 27,145 | $413K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Jupiter Topco LLC new | 27,027 | $411K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| MANGROVE PARTNERS IM, LLC new | 26,426 | $402K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| EntryPoint Capital, LLC | 24,661 | $375K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP trimmed | 23,889 | $364K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund trimmed | 23,288 | $354K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| MetLife Investment Management, LLC added | 23,198 | $353K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| OpenArc Corporate Advisory, LLC new | 22,003 | $335K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| LPL Financial LLC added | 21,404 | $326K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Gotham Asset Management, LLC trimmed | 20,441 | $311K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| MERCER GLOBAL ADVISORS INC /ADV trimmed | 19,881 | $303K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| WINTON GROUP Ltd new | 19,000 | $289K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| LexAurum Advisors, LLC | 19,000 | $289K | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. trimmed | 17,896 | $272K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Autumn Glory Partners, LLC | 17,660 | $269K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| DARK FOREST CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP trimmed | 17,359 | $264K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| IEQ CAPITAL, LLC trimmed | 16,422 | $250K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| FARMERS & MERCHANTS INVESTMENTS INC | 16,176 | $246K | 0.0% | 2026-Q2 |
Ownership over time
Tracked institutional holder count and total shares held by filing quarter (independent scales). The curated-era tail and any mid-ingest latest quarter are handled honestly — a partial quarter is not drawn as a collapse.
Reading this table
Funds hold the same stock for different reasons — an index fund “holds” almost everything, an active manager sizes a name to a mandate and a benchmark, and each fund entered at its own price and time. Because 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter-end, every row is a backward-looking snapshot; a manager may have traded since. Share-class siblings (a company’s A and C shares) are rolled up to one line so a dual-class name is never double-counted. Compare like-for-like. A large holder is not an endorsement, and a fund exiting is not a warning — this is a starting question, not a verdict.
About 13F filings
A Form 13F is a quarterly disclosure that institutional investment managers with over $100 million in US-listed equities must file with the SEC. In plain English: it is a snapshot of the long stock positions a fund held at the end of a quarter. It covers long US-listed equities only — not short positions, options, cash, or private holdings — and the funds shown are the large sample we track, not the complete 13F universe.