Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS Shares Purchased by Cwm LLC

Key Points

• Cwm LLC increased its holdings in Littelfuse by 2,227.6% in Q2, acquiring an additional 2,584 shares, raising their total to 2,700 shares valued at approximately $612,000.
• Multiple hedge funds, including Vanguard and US Bancorp, also boosted their stakes in Littelfuse in the same quarter, indicating strong institutional interest.
• Littelfuse reported better-than-expected earnings of $2.85 per share, surpassing the consensus estimate and demonstrating a 9.8% year-over-year revenue increase.

Cwm LLC boosted its holdings in Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS - Free Report) by 2,227.6% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 2,700 shares of the technology company's stock after purchasing an additional 2,584 shares during the quarter. Cwm LLC's holdings in Littelfuse were worth $612,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC boosted its holdings in Littelfuse by 103.0% in the second quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC now owns 5,293 shares of the technology company's stock worth $1,200,000 after purchasing an additional 2,685 shares during the period. Johnson Investment Counsel Inc. boosted its holdings in Littelfuse by 1.5% in the second quarter. Johnson Investment Counsel Inc. now owns 13,456 shares of the technology company's stock worth $3,051,000 after purchasing an additional 193 shares during the period. US Bancorp DE boosted its holdings in Littelfuse by 16.0% in the second quarter. US Bancorp DE now owns 4,674 shares of the technology company's stock worth $1,060,000 after purchasing an additional 646 shares during the period. Tectonic Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Littelfuse by 21.7% in the second quarter. Tectonic Advisors LLC now owns 2,464 shares of the technology company's stock valued at $559,000 after buying an additional 440 shares during the last quarter. Finally, KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS lifted its stake in Littelfuse by 6.3% in the second quarter. KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS now owns 5,100 shares of the technology company's stock valued at $1,156,000 after buying an additional 300 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 96.14% of the company's stock.

Littelfuse Stock Performance

LFUS stock opened at $269.34 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $6.67 billion, a P/E ratio of 56.11, a PEG ratio of 2.13 and a beta of 1.45. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $260.40 and a 200 day simple moving average of $229.11. Littelfuse, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $142.10 and a fifty-two week high of $272.83. The company has a quick ratio of 2.98, a current ratio of 4.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 30th. The technology company reported $2.85 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.35 by $0.50. The business had revenue of $613.41 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $571.04 million. Littelfuse had a net margin of 5.30% and a return on equity of 9.74%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 9.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.97 earnings per share. Littelfuse has set its Q3 2025 guidance at 2.650-2.850 EPS. Sell-side analysts predict that Littelfuse, Inc. will post 9.49 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, Director T J. Chung sold 2,343 shares of the company's 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 completion of the sale, the director owned 18,730 shares of the company's stock, valued at $4,609,640.30. This represents a 11.12% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, VP Ryan K. Stafford sold 10,206 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $261.34, for a total transaction of $2,667,236.04. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president owned 30,727 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,030,194.18. This trade represents a 24.93% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 25,759 shares of company stock valued at $6,697,362 over the last 90 days. 2.50% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research firms have issued reports on LFUS. Robert W. Baird upgraded Littelfuse from a "neutral" rating to an "outperform" rating and raised their target price for the company from $290.00 to $310.00 in a research note on Friday, October 10th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a "hold (c)" rating on shares of Littelfuse in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Baird R W upgraded 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 note on Friday, September 5th. Finally, Zacks Research cut Littelfuse from a "strong-buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, October 2nd. One 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 company. According to MarketBeat.com, Littelfuse presently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average 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.

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