Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS Shares Sold by Kelly Lawrence W & Associates Inc. CA

Kelly Lawrence W & Associates Inc. CA decreased its stake in Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) by 1.5% during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 42,728 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 645 shares during the period. Littelfuse comprises 2.0% of Kelly Lawrence W & Associates Inc. CA’s holdings, making the stock its 22nd largest position. Kelly Lawrence W & Associates Inc. CA’s holdings in Littelfuse were worth $8,406,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the stock. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Littelfuse by 7.9% in the 4th quarter. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. now owns 763,396 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $179,895,000 after purchasing an additional 55,835 shares during the last quarter. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. raised 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 worth $121,628,000 after buying an additional 176,243 shares in the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 5.3% in the 4th quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 442,554 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $104,287,000 after buying an additional 22,287 shares in the last quarter. Westwood Holdings Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 2.8% in the 1st quarter. Westwood Holdings Group Inc. now owns 357,157 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $70,267,000 after buying an additional 9,793 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. raised its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 0.8% in the 1st quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 314,897 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $61,953,000 after buying an additional 2,362 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 96.14% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling at Littelfuse

In other Littelfuse news, Director T J. Chung sold 2,343 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $246.11, for a total value of $576,635.73. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 18,730 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $4,609,640.30. The trade was a 11.12% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. 2.50% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Analyst Ratings Changes

LFUS has been the topic of a number of research reports. Oppenheimer dropped their price objective on Littelfuse from $310.00 to $275.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, May 1st. Wall Street Zen raised Littelfuse from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, August 2nd. Robert W. Baird boosted their price objective on Littelfuse from $182.00 to $194.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 1st. Finally, Benchmark reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research note on Wednesday, May 28th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $234.50.

Littelfuse Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ LFUS opened at $250.11 on Friday. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $237.22 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $216.35. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30, a current ratio of 4.06 and a quick ratio of 2.98. Littelfuse, Inc. has a one year low of $142.10 and a one year high of $275.56. The company has a market capitalization of $6.20 billion, a P/E ratio of 52.11, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.14 and a beta of 1.41.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, July 30th. The technology company reported $2.85 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.35 by $0.50. Littelfuse had a return on equity of 9.74% and a net margin of 5.30%.The firm had revenue of $613.41 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $571.04 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.97 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 9.8% compared to the same quarter last year. Littelfuse has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 2.650-2.850 EPS. Analysts anticipate that Littelfuse, Inc. will post 9.49 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Littelfuse Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, September 4th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 21st will be given a $0.75 dividend. This is an increase from Littelfuse’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.70. This represents a $3.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.2%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 21st. Littelfuse’s payout ratio is presently 58.33%.

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.