Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) Announces Earnings Results, Hits Expectations

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) posted its earnings results on Tuesday. The technology company reported $2.04 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates 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 period in the prior year, the business earned $2.02 EPS. Littelfuse updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 1.700-1.900 EPS.

Littelfuse Trading Up 5.0 %

Shares of Littelfuse stock opened at $235.24 on Thursday. Littelfuse has a fifty-two week low of $222.73 and a fifty-two week high of $275.58. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31, a quick ratio of 2.52 and a current ratio of 3.55. The company has a market capitalization of $5.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.24, a P/E/G ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26. The company has a fifty day moving average of $239.64 and a 200 day moving average of $250.60.

Littelfuse Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 6th. Investors of record on Thursday, February 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.70 per share. This represents a $2.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 20th. Littelfuse’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 35.99%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Benchmark reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research note on Wednesday. Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Littelfuse from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Thursday, October 17th. Finally, StockNews.com upgraded 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 issued a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Littelfuse currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $285.00.

Insider Buying and Selling at Littelfuse

In other news, CAO Jeffrey G. Gorski sold 700 shares of Littelfuse stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $249.02, for a total transaction of $174,314.00. Following 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 ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Insiders own 2.30% of the company’s stock.

About Littelfuse

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.