Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) Releases Earnings Results, Hits Estimates

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday. The technology company reported $2.04 EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate 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 firm posted $2.02 earnings per share. Littelfuse updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 1.700-1.900 EPS.

Littelfuse Price Performance

NASDAQ LFUS traded down $5.21 on Tuesday, reaching $224.00. 258,558 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 128,583. Littelfuse has a 12 month low of $222.73 and a 12 month high of $275.58. The company has a quick ratio of 2.52, a current ratio of 3.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $240.17 and its 200 day simple moving average is $251.27. The company has a market cap of $5.56 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.79, a P/E/G ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of research analysts recently issued reports on LFUS shares. Benchmark restated a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research report on Wednesday, October 30th. StockNews.com upgraded Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, October 18th. Finally, Oppenheimer upgraded Littelfuse from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 price target for the company in a research report on Thursday, October 17th. Three research 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 company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $285.00.

Insider Activity

In related news, CAO Jeffrey G. Gorski sold 700 shares of the 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 completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 3,105 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $773,207.10. This represents a 18.40 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at 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.