Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.700-1.900 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 2.050. The company issued revenue guidance of $520.0 million-$550.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $542.3 million.

Littelfuse Stock Performance

NASDAQ LFUS opened at $224.00 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31, a current ratio of 3.55 and a quick ratio of 2.52. Littelfuse has a 1-year low of $222.73 and a 1-year high of $275.58. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.56 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.79, a P/E/G ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $239.69 and its 200-day simple moving average is $250.71.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January 28th. The technology company reported $2.04 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.04. Littelfuse had a net margin of 8.88% and a return on equity of 8.49%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $2.02 EPS. Equities analysts predict that Littelfuse will post 8.47 EPS for the current year.

Littelfuse Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 6th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 20th will be given a $0.70 dividend. This represents a $2.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.25%. Littelfuse’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 35.99%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

LFUS has been the topic of several analyst reports. Benchmark reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a report on Wednesday, October 30th. StockNews.com upgraded shares of Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 18th. Finally, 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. Three investment 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’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $285.00.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CAO Jeffrey G. Gorski sold 700 shares of Littelfuse stock in a transaction dated 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 transaction, 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 ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Insiders own 2.30% of the company’s stock.

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.