Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS Shares Acquired by State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D

State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D grew its position in Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) by 4.5% during the second quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 9,047 shares of the technology company’s stock after purchasing an additional 389 shares during the quarter. State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D’s holdings in Littelfuse were worth $2,051,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Petrus Trust Company LTA raised its stake in Littelfuse by 4.6% during the 1st quarter. Petrus Trust Company LTA now owns 1,907 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $375,000 after acquiring an additional 84 shares in the last quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. raised its stake in Littelfuse by 228.2% during the 1st quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 128 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $25,000 after acquiring an additional 89 shares in the last quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp raised its stake in Littelfuse by 27.4% during the 2nd quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 414 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $94,000 after acquiring an additional 89 shares in the last quarter. FourThought Financial Partners LLC raised its stake in Littelfuse by 5.1% during the 1st quarter. FourThought Financial Partners LLC now owns 1,896 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $373,000 after acquiring an additional 92 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Advisors Asset Management Inc. raised its stake in Littelfuse by 42.0% during the 1st quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc. now owns 311 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $61,000 after acquiring an additional 92 shares in the last quarter. 96.14% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities research analysts recently commented on the stock. Baird R W upgraded 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 stock from $290.00 to $310.00 in a research note on Friday, October 10th. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of Littelfuse from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, September 5th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, Zacks Research lowered shares of Littelfuse from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 2nd. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have given a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Littelfuse presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $292.50.

Littelfuse Trading Down 3.8%

Shares of Littelfuse stock opened at $252.47 on Thursday. Littelfuse, Inc. has a 1 year low of $142.10 and a 1 year high of $275.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30, a quick ratio of 2.98 and a current ratio of 4.06. The company has a market capitalization of $6.26 billion, a P/E ratio of 52.60, a PEG ratio of 2.12 and a beta of 1.45. The company’s fifty day moving average is $261.42 and its two-hundred day moving average is $233.12.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October 29th. The technology company reported $2.95 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.75 by $0.20. Littelfuse had a net margin of 5.30% and a return on equity of 9.74%. The company had revenue of $624.64 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $623.70 million. During the same period last year, the firm posted $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. Analysts forecast that Littelfuse, Inc. will post 9.49 earnings per share for the current year.

Littelfuse Dividend Announcement

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, December 4th. Stockholders 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.2%. Littelfuse’s payout ratio is presently 62.50%.

Insider Activity

In other news, Director T J. Chung sold 2,343 shares of Littelfuse stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $246.11, for a total value of $576,635.73. Following 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 legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, SVP Alexander Conrad sold 13,210 shares of Littelfuse stock in a transaction dated 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 completion of the sale, the senior vice president directly owned 3,427 shares in the company, valued at approximately $895,920.61. The trade was a 79.40% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold a total of 25,759 shares of company stock valued at $6,697,362 over the last quarter. Corporate insiders own 2.50% of the company’s stock.

About Littelfuse

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.