Littelfuse is an electronic components business based in the US. Littelfuse shares (LFUS) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Littelfuse employs 16,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.3 billion.
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| Latest market close | $255.99 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $211.13 - $306.02 |
| 50-day moving average | $257.51 |
| 200-day moving average | $244.27 |
| Wall St. target price | $276.00 |
| PE ratio | 29.7626 |
| Dividend yield | $2.55 (1%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $8.72 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $255.99 from 2024-07-25
| 1 week (2024-07-19) | -1.36% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-06-27) | 0.16% |
| 3 months (2024-04-26) | 10.51% |
| 6 months (2024-01-26) | 9.12% |
| 1 year (2023-07-27) | -16.07% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-07-27) | -4.47% |
| 3 years (2021-07-27) | 4.62% |
| 5 years (2019-07-26) | 40.28% |
Valuing Littelfuse stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Littelfuse's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Littelfuse's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 30x. In other words, Littelfuse shares trade at around 30x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Littelfuse's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.9274. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Littelfuse's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Littelfuse's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $458.1 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Littelfuse's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $2.3 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 10.77% |
| Gross profit TTM | $1 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.1% |
| Return on equity TTM | 9.17% |
| Profit margin | 9.58% |
| Book value | $99.14 |
| Market Capitalization | $6.4 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 26.34% of net profits
Recently Littelfuse has paid out, on average, around 26.34% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Littelfuse shareholders could enjoy a 1% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Littelfuse's case, that would currently equate to about $2.55 per share.
While Littelfuse's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Littelfuse may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Littelfuse's most recent dividend payout was on 5 June 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 21 May 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Littelfuse's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 10 June 1997. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Littelfuse shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Littelfuse shares which in turn could have impacted Littelfuse's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Littelfuse's shares have ranged in value from as little as $211.1281 up to $306.0151. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Littelfuse's is 1.283. This would suggest that Littelfuse's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
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. This segment serves industrial motor drives and power conversion, automotive electronics, electric vehicle and related charging infrastructure, aerospace, power supplies, data centers, telecommunications, medical devices, alternative energy, building and home automation, appliances, and mobile electronics markets. The Transportation segment provides blade, resettable, and high-current and high-voltage fuses, as well as battery cable protectors; fuses, switches, relays, circuit breakers, and power distribution modules; and sensor products. This segment serves heavy-duty truck, construction, agriculture, material handling, and marine.
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