Arkadios Wealth Advisors Buys New Holdings in Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS

Arkadios Wealth Advisors bought a new position in Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm bought 1,460 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $331,000.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of LFUS. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. acquired a new position in shares of Littelfuse in the 1st quarter valued at $43,574,000. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. boosted its position in shares of Littelfuse by 39.9% during the 1st quarter. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. now owns 618,215 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $121,628,000 after acquiring an additional 176,243 shares in the last quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC increased its stake in Littelfuse by 97.8% in the first quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 216,208 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $42,537,000 after acquiring an additional 106,912 shares during the period. Nordea Investment Management AB raised its position in Littelfuse by 39.5% in the second quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 311,436 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $70,687,000 after purchasing an additional 88,151 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Copeland Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in Littelfuse by 31.3% during the second quarter. Copeland Capital Management LLC now owns 333,199 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $75,546,000 after purchasing an additional 79,507 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 96.14% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

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

Littelfuse Stock Up 1.5%

Shares of Littelfuse stock opened at $244.90 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30, a current ratio of 4.00 and a quick ratio of 2.98. The company has a market capitalization of $6.10 billion, a P/E ratio of 46.65, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.04 and a beta of 1.50. The business has a 50-day moving average of $259.85 and a two-hundred day moving average of $236.24. Littelfuse, Inc. has a 1 year low of $142.10 and a 1 year high of $275.00.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October 29th. The technology company reported $2.95 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.75 by $0.20. The company had revenue of $624.64 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $623.70 million. Littelfuse had a return on equity of 9.89% and a net margin of 5.66%.The company’s quarterly revenue was up 10.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $2.71 earnings per share. Littelfuse has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 2.400-2.600 EPS. As a group, equities analysts predict that Littelfuse, Inc. will post 9.49 EPS for the current year.

Littelfuse Announces Dividend

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. 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, November 20th. Littelfuse’s dividend payout ratio is presently 57.14%.

Insider Activity at Littelfuse

In other Littelfuse news, Director T J. Chung sold 2,343 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, August 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $246.11, for a total value of $576,635.73. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 18,730 shares in the company, valued at $4,609,640.30. The trade was a 11.12% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, 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 completion of the transaction, the vice president directly owned 30,727 shares in the company, valued at $8,030,194.18. The trade was a 24.93% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 25,759 shares of company stock worth $6,697,362. Insiders own 2.50% of the company’s stock.

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.