Savant Capital LLC Grows Stake in Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS

Savant Capital LLC grew its holdings in shares of Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) by 42.6% in the 2nd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 4,688 shares of the technology company’s stock after purchasing an additional 1,401 shares during the quarter. Savant Capital LLC’s holdings in Littelfuse were worth $1,063,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. grew its stake in Littelfuse by 39.9% during the 1st quarter. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. now owns 618,215 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $121,628,000 after buying an additional 176,243 shares during the last quarter. Westwood Holdings Group Inc. boosted its holdings in Littelfuse by 2.8% in the first quarter. Westwood Holdings Group Inc. now owns 357,157 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $70,267,000 after acquiring an additional 9,793 shares in the last quarter. Copeland Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 31.3% during the second quarter. Copeland Capital Management LLC now owns 333,199 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $75,546,000 after acquiring an additional 79,507 shares during the last quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Littelfuse by 0.8% during the first quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 314,897 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $61,953,000 after acquiring an additional 2,362 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Nordea Investment Management AB increased its holdings in shares of Littelfuse by 39.5% during the second quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 311,436 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $70,687,000 after acquiring an additional 88,151 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 96.14% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several analysts have weighed in on LFUS shares. Robert W. Baird raised shares of Littelfuse from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and boosted their target price for the stock from $290.00 to $310.00 in a research report on Friday, October 10th. Benchmark reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a report on Thursday, October 30th. Wall Street Zen upgraded Littelfuse from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, September 5th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, Zacks Research lowered 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 given a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Littelfuse currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $292.50.

Insider Activity at Littelfuse

In other news, SVP Alexander Conrad sold 13,210 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $261.43, for a total transaction of $3,453,490.30. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 3,427 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $895,920.61. This trade represents a 79.40% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, VP Ryan K. Stafford sold 10,206 shares of Littelfuse stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $261.34, for a total transaction of $2,667,236.04. Following the transaction, the vice president directly owned 30,727 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,030,194.18. This trade represents a 24.93% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Corporate insiders own 2.50% of the company’s stock.

Littelfuse Price Performance

NASDAQ:LFUS opened at $241.09 on Friday. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $257.99 and its two-hundred day moving average is $238.94. The firm has a market cap of $6.00 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 45.92, a PEG ratio of 2.04 and a beta of 1.50. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30, a quick ratio of 2.98 and a current ratio of 4.00. Littelfuse, Inc. has a one year low of $142.10 and a one year high of $275.00.

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

Littelfuse Dividend Announcement

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

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.