Analysts Set Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) PT at $234.50

Shares of Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) have received an average rating of “Moderate Buy” from the five research firms that are currently covering the company, MarketBeat reports. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, one has given a buy recommendation and one has issued a strong buy recommendation on the company. The average 12-month price target among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $234.50.

Several research analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Littelfuse from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Friday, September 5th. Zacks Research upgraded Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, September 3rd.

Littelfuse Trading Up 0.4%

Shares of LFUS opened at $259.04 on Tuesday. Littelfuse has a twelve month low of $142.10 and a twelve month high of $271.81. The stock has a market cap of $6.42 billion, a PE ratio of 53.97, a P/E/G ratio of 2.09 and a beta of 1.45. The company has a quick ratio of 2.98, a current ratio of 4.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $256.82 and its 200-day moving average price is $222.49.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, July 30th. The technology company reported $2.85 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.35 by $0.50. Littelfuse had a net margin of 5.30% and a return on equity of 9.74%. The business had revenue of $613.41 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $571.04 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.97 EPS. Littelfuse’s revenue was up 9.8% on a year-over-year basis. Littelfuse has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 2.650-2.850 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that Littelfuse will post 9.49 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Littelfuse Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, September 4th. Investors of record on Thursday, August 21st were given a $0.75 dividend. This represents a $3.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.2%. This is a positive change from Littelfuse’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.70. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, August 21st. Littelfuse’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 62.50%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Littelfuse

In other Littelfuse news, SVP Alexander Conrad sold 13,210 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $261.43, for a total transaction of $3,453,490.30. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 3,427 shares in the company, valued at $895,920.61. This trade represents a 79.40% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, VP Ryan K. Stafford sold 10,206 shares of Littelfuse stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $261.34, for a total value of $2,667,236.04. Following the sale, the vice president directly owned 30,727 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,030,194.18. This trade represents a 24.93% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 25,759 shares of company stock worth $6,697,362 over the last three months. 2.50% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Institutional Trading of Littelfuse

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of LFUS. GAMMA Investing LLC raised its position in Littelfuse by 4.7% in the 3rd quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 2,120 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $549,000 after purchasing an additional 95 shares during the period. Corient Private Wealth LLC grew its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 6.5% during the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 8,476 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,922,000 after buying an additional 517 shares during the last quarter. Orion Porfolio Solutions LLC lifted its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 22.0% in the 2nd quarter. Orion Porfolio Solutions LLC now owns 5,112 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,159,000 after acquiring an additional 922 shares during the last quarter. Squarepoint Ops LLC boosted its holdings in Littelfuse by 364.9% during the 2nd quarter. Squarepoint Ops LLC now owns 27,169 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $6,160,000 after acquiring an additional 21,325 shares during the period. Finally, State of Wyoming bought a new position in Littelfuse during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $261,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 96.14% 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.