JPMorgan Chase & Co. Has $60.72 Million Stock Holdings in Littelfuse, Inc. $LFUS

JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its position in shares of Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) by 18.0% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 267,796 shares of the technology company’s stock after acquiring an additional 40,786 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. owned about 1.08% of Littelfuse worth $60,717,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Arkadios Wealth Advisors bought a new position in shares of Littelfuse during the 2nd quarter valued at $331,000. Versor Investments LP acquired a new position in Littelfuse during the second quarter worth $273,000. Nordea Investment Management AB raised its holdings 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 buying an additional 88,151 shares in the last quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas lifted its position in shares of Littelfuse by 13.5% in the second quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas now owns 5,701 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,293,000 after buying an additional 678 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Personal CFO Solutions LLC bought a new stake in shares of Littelfuse during the 2nd quarter worth about $302,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 96.14% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at Littelfuse

In related news, SVP Deepak Nayar sold 2,333 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $255.50, for a total value of $596,081.50. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president owned 5,998 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,532,489. This represents a 28.00% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. 2.50% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

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

Littelfuse Stock Performance

LFUS opened at $256.02 on Friday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $253.92 and its 200-day simple moving average is $243.17. The company has a current ratio of 4.00, a quick ratio of 2.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30. The stock has a market cap of $6.38 billion, a PE ratio of 48.77, a P/E/G ratio of 2.04 and a beta of 1.50. Littelfuse, Inc. has a 1 year low of $142.10 and a 1 year high of $275.00.

Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, October 29th. The technology company reported $2.95 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.75 by $0.20. The firm had revenue of $624.64 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $623.70 million. Littelfuse had a return on equity of 9.89% and a net margin of 5.66%.Littelfuse’s quarterly revenue was up 10.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $2.71 earnings per share. Littelfuse has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 2.400-2.600 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that Littelfuse, Inc. will post 9.49 EPS for the current year.

Littelfuse Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, December 4th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 20th will be paid a $0.75 dividend. 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 payout ratio is presently 57.14%.

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.