Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 1.700-1.900 for the period, compared to the consensus 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 Price Performance

LFUS stock opened at $235.24 on Thursday. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $239.64 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $250.60. The stock has a market cap of $5.84 billion, a PE ratio of 30.24, a P/E/G ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26. Littelfuse has a one year low of $222.73 and a one year high of $275.58. 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 (NASDAQ:LFUS) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, January 28th. The technology company reported $2.04 EPS for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.04. Littelfuse had a return on equity of 8.49% and a net margin of 8.88%. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $2.02 EPS. On average, analysts predict that Littelfuse will post 8.47 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Littelfuse Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 6th. Investors of record on Thursday, February 20th will be issued a dividend of $0.70 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 20th. This represents a $2.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.19%. Littelfuse’s dividend payout ratio is 35.99%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts have commented on the stock. Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Littelfuse from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 price target on the stock in a research report on Thursday, October 17th. Benchmark reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a report on Wednesday. Finally, StockNews.com raised shares of Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 18th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $285.00.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Littelfuse news, CAO Jeffrey G. Gorski sold 700 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $249.02, for a total transaction of $174,314.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 3,105 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $773,207.10. This represents a 18.40 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. 2.30% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.