Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTLF), announced that its board of directors approved an increase in its quarterly cash dividend to $0.16 per share on the company's common stock payable on March 1, 2019, to stockholders of record at the close of business on February 15, 2019. As of December 31, 2018, there were 34,477,499 common shares outstanding listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol HTLF.

Officials of Heartland Financial USA, Inc.

Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTLF) today reported net income available to common stockholders of $33.7 million, or $0.97 per diluted common share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2018, compared to $21.6 million, or $0.72 per diluted common share, for the third quarter of 2017. Return on average common equity was 10.58% and return on average assets was 1.18% for the third quarter of 2018, compared to 8.99% and 0.89%, respectively, for the same quarter in 2017.

Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTLF), announced that its board of directors approved its quarterly cash dividend of $0.14 per share on the company's common stock payable on November 30, 2018, to stockholders of record at the close of business on November 16, 2018.  As of September 30, 2018, there were 34,473,029 common shares outstanding listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol HTLF.

Heartland Financial USA, Inc., celebrated 83 years of community banking and 15 years as a publicly traded company by ringing Nasdaq’s Closing Bell on Wednesday, August 22, 2018. You can watch the video on our YouTube channel.

Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (“Heartland”) announced that Susan G. Murphy, Principal at Denver-based Grace Alliance, LLC, has been elected to serve on its Board of Directors. Ms. Murphy will serve as an independent director until Heartland’s annual meeting in 2021.

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