Heartland Financial USA announced Thursday that it would issue a quarterly cash dividend of 22 cents per share on the company’s common stock, payable February 26th to stockholders of record on February 12th. As of December 31st, there were 42.1 million common shares outstanding listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The stocks are traded under the symbol HTLF. Heartland Financial USA, headquartered in Dubuque, is a diversified financial services company with assets of nearly $18 billion.