Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) Releases Quarterly Earnings Results, Hits Expectations

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday. The technology company reported $2.04 EPS for the quarter, hitting 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 period in the prior year, the business posted $2.02 earnings per share. Littelfuse updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 1.700-1.900 EPS.

Littelfuse Stock Performance

Shares of Littelfuse stock traded down $5.21 on Tuesday, hitting $224.00. 258,212 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 128,251. Littelfuse has a 1 year low of $222.73 and a 1 year high of $275.58. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $240.17 and a 200-day simple moving average of $251.27. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31, a quick ratio of 2.52 and a current ratio of 3.55. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.56 billion, a PE ratio of 28.79, a PEG ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26.

Insider Transactions at Littelfuse

In other Littelfuse news, CAO Jeffrey G. Gorski sold 700 shares of the firm’s 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 sale, the chief accounting officer now 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 legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. 2.30% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. StockNews.com raised shares of Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, October 18th. Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Littelfuse from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 target price for the company in a research note on Thursday, October 17th. Finally, Benchmark restated a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average 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.