Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 1.700-1.900 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 2.050. The company issued revenue guidance of $520.0 million-$550.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $542.3 million.

Littelfuse Price Performance

Littelfuse stock opened at $224.00 on Wednesday. The company has a market cap of $5.56 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.79, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26. Littelfuse has a one year low of $222.73 and a one year high of $275.58. The business has a fifty day moving average of $239.69 and a two-hundred day moving average of $250.71. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31, a quick ratio of 2.52 and a current ratio of 3.55.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, January 28th. The technology company reported $2.04 EPS for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.04. Littelfuse had a net margin of 8.88% and a return on equity of 8.49%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $2.02 EPS. As a group, analysts predict that Littelfuse will post 8.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Littelfuse Dividend Announcement

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 6th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 20th will be given a dividend of $0.70 per share. This represents a $2.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.25%. Littelfuse’s payout ratio is 35.99%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts have recently issued reports on LFUS shares. StockNews.com raised Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 18th. Benchmark reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a report on Wednesday, October 30th. Finally, 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 report on Thursday, October 17th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $285.00.

Insider Activity

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