Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS Shares Bought by KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS

KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS raised its holdings in Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) by 6.3% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 5,100 shares of the technology company’s stock after acquiring an additional 300 shares during the period. KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS’s holdings in Littelfuse were worth $1,156,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. D.B. Root & Company LLC grew its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 2.5% during the 2nd quarter. D.B. Root & Company LLC now owns 4,539 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,029,000 after buying an additional 112 shares during the period. Hunter Perkins Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 15.9% during the 2nd quarter. Hunter Perkins Capital Management LLC now owns 5,355 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,214,000 after buying an additional 735 shares during the period. Copeland Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 31.3% during the 2nd quarter. Copeland Capital Management LLC now owns 333,199 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $75,546,000 after buying an additional 79,507 shares during the period. Lecap Asset Management Ltd. purchased a new stake in shares of Littelfuse during the 2nd quarter valued at $548,000. Finally, Consolidated Planning Corp purchased a new stake in shares of Littelfuse during the 2nd quarter valued at $293,000. 96.14% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

LFUS has been the subject of several research reports. Baird R W raised shares of Littelfuse from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 10th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Littelfuse from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Friday, September 5th. Zacks Research cut shares of Littelfuse from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 2nd. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, Robert W. Baird raised shares of Littelfuse from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and upped their price target for the stock from $290.00 to $310.00 in a research report on Friday. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have issued a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $292.50.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, VP Ryan K. Stafford sold 10,206 shares of the stock in a transaction dated 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 sale, the vice president owned 30,727 shares in the company, valued at $8,030,194.18. This represents a 24.93% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, Director T J. Chung sold 2,343 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $246.11, for a total transaction of $576,635.73. Following the sale, the director owned 18,730 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,609,640.30. This trade represents a 11.12% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 25,759 shares of company stock valued at $6,697,362 over the last 90 days. 2.50% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Littelfuse Stock Performance

Shares of Littelfuse stock opened at $260.77 on Wednesday. The firm has a market cap of $6.46 billion, a PE ratio of 54.33, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.06 and a beta of 1.45. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $258.36 and its 200-day simple moving average is $225.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30, a quick ratio of 2.98 and a current ratio of 4.06. Littelfuse, Inc. has a 1 year low of $142.10 and a 1 year high of $271.81.

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

Littelfuse Increases Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, September 4th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 21st were issued a $0.75 dividend. This is a boost from Littelfuse’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.70. This represents a $3.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.2%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, August 21st. Littelfuse’s dividend payout ratio is presently 62.50%.

Littelfuse 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.