Advantage Alpha Capital Partners LP Acquires 3,136 Shares of Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS

Advantage Alpha Capital Partners LP lifted its holdings in shares of Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) by 20.4% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 18,505 shares of the technology company’s stock after buying an additional 3,136 shares during the quarter. Advantage Alpha Capital Partners LP owned about 0.07% of Littelfuse worth $4,196,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors have also bought and sold shares of LFUS. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. grew its holdings in 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 worth $121,628,000 after acquiring an additional 176,243 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its position in shares of Littelfuse by 0.3% in the 2nd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 461,098 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $104,561,000 after purchasing an additional 1,438 shares during the last quarter. Westwood Holdings Group Inc. boosted its position in shares of Littelfuse by 2.8% in the 1st quarter. Westwood Holdings Group Inc. now owns 357,157 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $70,267,000 after purchasing an additional 9,793 shares during the last quarter. American Century Companies Inc. grew its stake in shares of Littelfuse by 23.6% during the second quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 346,527 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $78,569,000 after purchasing an additional 66,267 shares during the period. Finally, Copeland Capital Management LLC increased its holdings in Littelfuse by 31.3% in the second quarter. Copeland Capital Management LLC now owns 333,199 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $75,546,000 after purchasing an additional 79,507 shares during the last quarter. 96.14% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have issued reports on LFUS. Wall Street Zen upgraded Littelfuse from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Friday, September 5th. Benchmark reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research note on Thursday, October 30th. Robert W. Baird upgraded shares of Littelfuse from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and boosted their price objective for the company from $290.00 to $310.00 in a report on Friday, October 10th. Zacks Research lowered shares of Littelfuse from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, October 2nd. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have assigned a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Littelfuse presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $292.50.

Littelfuse Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ LFUS opened at $256.10 on Friday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $254.05 and a 200 day moving average price of $242.75. The firm has a market cap of $6.38 billion, a PE ratio of 48.78, a PEG ratio of 2.04 and a beta of 1.50. The company has a current ratio of 4.00, a quick ratio of 2.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30. 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. Research analysts predict that Littelfuse, Inc. will post 9.49 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Littelfuse Dividend Announcement

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

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.