LFUSLittelfuse, Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. No accounting flags, quality moderate.
Reported earnings show no manipulation flags Beneish M-score, a forensic model that detects earnings-manipulation patterns (receivables outrunning sales, margins slipping, accrual-heavy profit).
Mixed fundamental signals Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -54% · now 13% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 27, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can LFUS take a bad year?
The deepest fall in LFUS's price history on file is −54%; it is 13% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Interest cover
- 2.12×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 42%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −54%
Worst drawdown on file · −13% today
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $632M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $482M
- Net debt
- $150M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $69M
- Debt / equity
- 0.25×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 42%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −54%
- Below its 52-week high
- 13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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