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Profile - Littelfuse, Inc. (NasdaqNM:LFUS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
800 East Northwest Highway
Des Plaines, IL 60016
Phone: (847) 824-1188
Fax: (847) 824-3864
Email: seoh@littelfuse.com
Employees (last reported count): 3,800
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Electronic Instruments & Controls
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 29%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider sell; 15.0K shares
  (0.3% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 95% (134% of float)
(232 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 199.0K shares (+1.04%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Littelfuse, Inc. is a manufacturer and seller of fuses and other circuit protection devices for use in the electronic, automotive and general industrial markets. In the electronic market, the Company's major customers include leading manufacturers such as Arrow, Celestica, Cisco, Compaq, Dell Computer, Future Electronics, GE, Intel, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, Panasonic, Samsung, Solectron and Sony. Littelfuse also provides substantially all of the automotive fuse requirements for vehicles manufactured domestically by General Motors, Ford and Daimler Chrysler as well as all Japanese and most European auto manufacturer transplants.
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Financial Summary
Littelfuse, Inc. manufactures and sells fuses and other circuit protection devices for use in the automotive, electronic, and general industrial markets. LFUS also manufactures and supplies relays, switches, circuit breakers. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues decreased 25% to $144.6 million. Earnings decreased 69% to $6.4 million. Revenues reflect decreased demand for electronic and automative products. Earnings reflect lower margins due to lower unit volume.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY1999 Compensation
PayExer

Howard Witt, 59
Chairman, Pres, CEO,
$1.1M$728K
Philip Franklin, 48
VP, Treasurer, and CFO
370K--  
William Barron, 57
VP of Marketing and Sales
361K--  
Kenneth Audino, 56
VP of Organizational Devel. and Total Quality Management
279K99K
Hans Ouwehand, 53
VP, European Operations
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 2-Jan-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:LFUSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 4-Apr-2001
$19.813
Recent Price$27.00 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$36.688
Beta0.99 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)80.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)58.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-24.7%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+1.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$536.0M
Shares Outstanding19.9M
Float14.1M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 11-June-1997
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$8.58 
Earnings (ttm)$1.04 
Earnings (mrq)$0.15 
Sales (ttm)$14.79 
Cash (mrq)$0.50 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)3.15 
Price/Earnings (ttm)26.01 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.83 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$323.8M
EBITDA (ttm)$45.3M
Income available to common (ttm)$22.8M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)7.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)12.0%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 30
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)8.14%
Return on Equity (ttm)13.78%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.24 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.37 
Total Cash (mrq)$9.95M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short2.06M
Percent of Float14.6%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
2.13M
Short Ratio20.77 
Daily Volume99.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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