Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) SVP Peter Sung-Jip Kim Sells 2,049 Shares of Stock

Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) SVP Peter Sung-Jip Kim sold 2,049 shares of Littelfuse stock in a transaction on Thursday, December 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $270.02, for a total value of $553,270.98. Following the sale, the senior vice president directly owned 10,175 shares in the company, valued at $2,747,453.50. The trade was a 16.76% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website.

Littelfuse Stock Performance

Shares of LFUS traded down $1.71 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $260.55. 203,992 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 202,492. Littelfuse, Inc. has a twelve month low of $142.10 and a twelve month high of $275.00. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $253.98 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $246.75. 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 firm has a market capitalization of $6.49 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 49.63, a P/E/G ratio of 2.08 and a beta of 1.43.

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

Littelfuse Announces Dividend

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

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Littelfuse

A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of LFUS. Norges Bank purchased a new position in shares of Littelfuse during the 2nd quarter valued at $114,721,000. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. purchased a new stake in shares of Littelfuse during the first quarter worth $43,574,000. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. boosted its position in Littelfuse by 39.9% during the first 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 during the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC grew its stake in Littelfuse by 876.1% in the second quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 195,927 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $44,240,000 after purchasing an additional 175,854 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Ameriprise Financial Inc. increased its position in Littelfuse by 105.6% in the 3rd quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 291,203 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $75,425,000 after purchasing an additional 149,570 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 96.14% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities analysts have issued reports on the company. Zacks Research lowered Littelfuse from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 2nd. Robert W. Baird raised Littelfuse from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and raised their target price for the company from $290.00 to $310.00 in a research note on Friday, October 10th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a report on Wednesday, October 8th. Benchmark reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a report on Thursday, October 30th. Finally, Baird R W raised shares of Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 10th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have assigned a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $292.50.

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.