AlphaQuest LLC Raises Position in Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS

AlphaQuest LLC raised its stake in shares of Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) by 1,950.7% during the second quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 2,994 shares of the technology company’s stock after buying an additional 2,848 shares during the quarter. AlphaQuest LLC’s holdings in Littelfuse were worth $679,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management N.V. raised its position in Littelfuse by 39.9% during the first 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 purchasing an additional 176,243 shares during the period. Westwood Holdings Group Inc. raised its position in Littelfuse by 2.8% during the first quarter. Westwood Holdings Group Inc. now owns 357,157 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $70,267,000 after purchasing an additional 9,793 shares during the period. Copeland Capital Management LLC raised its position in Littelfuse by 31.3% during 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 period. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. raised its position in Littelfuse by 0.8% during the first quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 314,897 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $61,953,000 after purchasing an additional 2,362 shares during the period. Finally, Nordea Investment Management AB raised its position in Littelfuse by 39.5% during the second quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 311,436 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $70,687,000 after purchasing an additional 88,151 shares during the period. 96.14% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Activity

In other news, VP Ryan K. Stafford sold 10,206 shares of the stock in a transaction on 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 represents a 24.93% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director T J. Chung sold 2,343 shares of the 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 sale, the director owned 18,730 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,609,640.30. This represents a 11.12% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last quarter, insiders sold 25,759 shares of company stock worth $6,697,362. Insiders own 2.50% of the company’s stock.

Littelfuse Stock Up 0.9%

Shares of NASDAQ LFUS opened at $271.84 on Tuesday. Littelfuse, Inc. has a 12-month low of $142.10 and a 12-month high of $275.00. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $261.16 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $231.67. The company has a current ratio of 4.06, a quick ratio of 2.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30. The stock has a market capitalization of $6.74 billion, a PE ratio of 56.63, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.18 and a beta of 1.45.

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

Analyst Ratings Changes

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

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.