Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) Posts Earnings Results, Meets Estimates

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

Littelfuse Trading Down 2.3 %

Littelfuse stock opened at $224.00 on Wednesday. Littelfuse has a 12 month low of $222.73 and a 12 month high of $275.58. The stock has a market cap of $5.56 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.79, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $239.69 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $250.71. The company has a quick ratio of 2.52, a current ratio of 3.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31.

Littelfuse Announces Dividend

The business 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 $0.70 dividend. This represents a $2.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.25%. Littelfuse’s payout ratio is presently 35.99%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Littelfuse 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 transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 3,105 shares in the company, valued at approximately $773,207.10. The trade was a 18.40 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 2.30% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of brokerages recently issued reports on LFUS. Benchmark reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a report on Wednesday, October 30th. StockNews.com upgraded Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, October 18th. Finally, 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 research note on Thursday, October 17th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $285.00.

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.