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 traded down $5.21 on Tuesday, hitting $224.00. 258,212 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 128,251. The stock has a market cap of $5.56 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.79, a P/E/G ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.26. Littelfuse has a 1-year low of $222.73 and a 1-year high of $275.58. The company has a current ratio of 3.55, a quick ratio of 2.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $240.17 and a 200-day moving average of $251.27.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, January 28th. The technology company reported $2.04 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting 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 quarter last year, the firm earned $2.02 EPS. On average, analysts forecast that Littelfuse will post 8.47 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

LFUS has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Benchmark reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. StockNews.com raised Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 18th. Finally, Oppenheimer upgraded Littelfuse from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 target price on the stock in a report on Thursday, October 17th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $285.00.

Insider Buying and Selling at Littelfuse

In related news, CAO Jeffrey G. Gorski sold 700 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $249.02, for a total value of $174,314.00. Following the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 3,105 shares in the company, valued at approximately $773,207.10. This represents a 18.40 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Corporate 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.