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

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

Littelfuse Stock Down 2.3 %

Shares of NASDAQ LFUS traded down $5.21 on Tuesday, reaching $224.00. 258,212 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 128,251. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $240.17 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $251.27. Littelfuse has a 12 month low of $222.73 and a 12 month high of $275.58. The company 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 company has a quick ratio of 2.52, a current ratio of 3.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31.

Insider Transactions at Littelfuse

In other Littelfuse news, CAO Jeffrey G. Gorski sold 700 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated 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 in the company, valued at approximately $773,207.10. This trade represents a 18.40 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Insiders own 2.30% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages have issued reports on LFUS. StockNews.com raised shares of Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, October 18th. Benchmark reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. Finally, Oppenheimer raised Littelfuse from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 price objective on the stock 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 given a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus 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.