State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System Increases Holdings in Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS

State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System increased its position in Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) by 42.3% in the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 20,563 shares of the technology company’s stock after buying an additional 6,116 shares during the quarter. State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System owned 0.08% of Littelfuse worth $4,662,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of LFUS. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. purchased a new position in shares of Littelfuse during the first quarter worth approximately $43,574,000. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. boosted its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 39.9% in the 1st quarter. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. now owns 618,215 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $121,628,000 after purchasing an additional 176,243 shares in the last quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC grew its holdings in shares of Littelfuse by 97.8% during the 1st quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 216,208 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $42,537,000 after purchasing an additional 106,912 shares during the last quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB raised its position in Littelfuse by 39.5% in the 2nd quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 311,436 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $70,687,000 after purchasing an additional 88,151 shares during the period. Finally, Copeland Capital Management LLC raised its position in Littelfuse by 31.3% in the 2nd quarter. Copeland Capital Management LLC now owns 333,199 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $75,546,000 after purchasing an additional 79,507 shares during the period. 96.14% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, SVP Deepak Nayar sold 2,333 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $255.50, for a total value of $596,081.50. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president directly owned 5,998 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,532,489. This trade represents a 28.00% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Company insiders own 2.50% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on LFUS. Wall Street Zen raised Littelfuse from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, September 5th. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Baird R W upgraded Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Friday, October 10th. Robert W. Baird raised Littelfuse from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and increased their price objective for the company from $290.00 to $310.00 in a research note on Friday, October 10th. Finally, Zacks Research cut shares of Littelfuse from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, October 2nd. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have assigned a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $292.50.

Littelfuse Trading Up 0.7%

LFUS opened at $258.99 on Friday. Littelfuse, Inc. has a one year low of $142.10 and a one year high of $275.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30, a current ratio of 4.00 and a quick ratio of 3.05. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $253.49 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $244.05. The firm has a market capitalization of $6.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 49.33, a PEG ratio of 2.04 and a beta of 1.43.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October 29th. The technology company reported $2.95 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.75 by $0.20. The firm had revenue of $624.64 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $623.70 million. Littelfuse had a return on equity of 9.89% and a net margin of 5.66%.The business’s quarterly revenue was up 10.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $2.71 EPS. Littelfuse has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 2.400-2.600 EPS. Analysts predict that Littelfuse, Inc. will post 9.49 EPS for the current year.

Littelfuse Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, December 4th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 20th were given a dividend of $0.75 per share. This represents a $3.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.2%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, November 20th. Littelfuse’s payout ratio is presently 57.14%.

Littelfuse 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.