Insider Selling: Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) SVP Sells $596,081.50 in Stock

Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) SVP Deepak Nayar sold 2,333 shares of Littelfuse stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $255.50, for a total transaction of $596,081.50. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 5,998 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,532,489. This trade represents a 28.00% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link.

Littelfuse Stock Performance

Shares of LFUS opened at $256.02 on Monday. Littelfuse, Inc. has a 1 year low of $142.10 and a 1 year high of $275.00. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $253.92 and its 200 day simple moving average is $243.35. The company has a market capitalization of $6.38 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 48.77, 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 (NASDAQ:LFUS) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, October 29th. The technology company reported $2.95 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.75 by $0.20. Littelfuse had a net margin of 5.66% and a return on equity of 9.89%. The firm had revenue of $624.64 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $623.70 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $2.71 EPS. Littelfuse’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.2% on a year-over-year basis. Littelfuse has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 2.400-2.600 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts predict that Littelfuse, Inc. will post 9.49 EPS for the current year.

Littelfuse Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, December 4th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 20th will be given a dividend of $0.75 per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 20th. This represents a $3.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.2%. Littelfuse’s dividend payout ratio is 57.14%.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Littelfuse

Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Glenmede Investment Management LP grew its holdings in Littelfuse by 1.5% in the 3rd quarter. Glenmede Investment Management LP now owns 2,845 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $737,000 after buying an additional 43 shares in the last quarter. Stonegate Investment Group LLC boosted its position in Littelfuse by 5.0% during the 3rd quarter. Stonegate Investment Group LLC now owns 972 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $252,000 after acquiring an additional 46 shares during the period. Embree Financial Group grew its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 5.0% in the third quarter. Embree Financial Group now owns 1,017 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $263,000 after purchasing an additional 48 shares in the last quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Littelfuse by 57.6% during the third quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. now owns 134 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $35,000 after purchasing an additional 49 shares during the period. Finally, Larson Financial Group LLC increased its holdings in shares of Littelfuse by 50.9% during the third quarter. Larson Financial Group LLC now owns 160 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $41,000 after purchasing an additional 54 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 96.14% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

LFUS has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a report on Wednesday, October 8th. Zacks Research downgraded shares of Littelfuse from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, October 2nd. Baird R W raised shares of Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 10th. Robert W. Baird upgraded shares of Littelfuse from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and lifted their price target for the company from $290.00 to $310.00 in a report on Friday, October 10th. Finally, Benchmark restated a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a report on Thursday, October 30th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have issued a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $292.50.

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.