Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) Issues Earnings Results

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday. The technology company reported $2.04 EPS for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $2.04, RTT News reports. Littelfuse had a return on equity of 8.49% and a net margin of 8.88%. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $2.02 EPS. Littelfuse updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 1.700-1.900 EPS.

Littelfuse Stock Down 2.3 %

Shares of NASDAQ LFUS opened at $224.00 on Wednesday. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $239.69 and a 200 day moving average price of $250.71. The company has a market cap of $5.56 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.79, a P/E/G ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26. Littelfuse has a 12-month low of $222.73 and a 12-month high of $275.58. The company has a current ratio of 3.55, a quick ratio of 2.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31.

Littelfuse Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 6th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 20th will be given a $0.70 dividend. This represents a $2.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.25%. Littelfuse’s payout ratio is currently 35.99%.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several analysts have recently commented on the stock. Benchmark reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research report on Wednesday, October 30th. Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Littelfuse from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 target price on the stock in a report on Thursday, October 17th. Finally, StockNews.com raised shares of Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 18th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $285.00.

Insider Activity

In other Littelfuse news, CAO Jeffrey G. Gorski sold 700 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $249.02, for a total transaction of $174,314.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer now owns 3,105 shares in the company, valued at $773,207.10. This trade represents a 18.40 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Insiders own 2.30% of the company’s stock.

Littelfuse Company Profile

Littelfuse, Inc designs, manufactures, and sells electronic components, modules, and subassemblies in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The company operates through Electronic, Transportation, and Industrial segments. The Electronics segment offers fuses and fuse accessories, positive temperature coefficient resettable fuses, electromechanical switches and interconnect solutions, polymer electrostatic discharge suppressors, varistors, reed switch based magnetic sensing products, and gas discharge tubes; and discrete transient voltage suppressor (TVS) diodes, TVS diode arrays, protection and switching thyristors, metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors and diodes, and insulated gate bipolar transistors.