Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) Issues Earnings Results

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

Littelfuse Stock Performance

LFUS stock traded down $5.21 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $224.00. 258,558 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 128,583. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.56 billion, a PE ratio of 28.79, a P/E/G ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26. The business has a 50-day moving average of $240.17 and a two-hundred day moving average of $251.27. Littelfuse has a 52 week low of $222.73 and a 52 week 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.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, CAO Jeffrey G. Gorski sold 700 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred 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 directly owns 3,105 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $773,207.10. This represents a 18.40 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 2.30% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

LFUS has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Benchmark restated a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. Oppenheimer raised Littelfuse from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 price target for the company in a research note on Thursday, October 17th. Finally, StockNews.com raised shares of Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, October 18th. Three 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 presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $285.00.

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.