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For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

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3 stocking stuffers you can buy for yourself

Stocks to buy

Stocking stuffers are small, inexpensive presents that help to complete the holiday, so for this screen, the focus was on inexpensive stocks. Inexpensive means a low P/E multiple relative to the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA: SPY), but it doesn’t mean cheap. Each stock on this list is a quality dividend-paying name with a higher-than-average yield to help brighten the season (and portfolio returns). Additionally, the screen criteria include a low beta and stocks trading near their 52-week low to try and capture a bit of sleep-soundly-at-night safety to help offset any worry for the coming year. 

Bristol-Myers Squibb and the patent cliff

Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) is struggling with the patent cliff like most other big pharma companies, depressing the market. However, the takeaway from the data suggests the market is oversold and trading near its floor, setting up for a rebound in 2024. While 2023 results show YOY decline, the decline is narrowing sequentially, and growth is expected to return next year. 

Regarding the stock screen and metrics, BMY stock is at the top of the list with a low 6.5X valuation, well below its peers, and it pays a solid 4.65%. The dividend is reliably safe for 2024 and can be expected to grow. The yield is compounded by a super-low 0.30 beta, which suggests little to no movement compared to the S&P, and the stock is already trading at its floor. 

Analyst's sentiment aided the decline in share prices, but the move has run its course. While analysts have steadily lowered their price targets in 2023, the sentiment has held firm at Hold, and the low end of the range coincides with critical market support. That level is $50, consistent with the COVID-19 lows set in 2020 and a launch pad for higher prices. Among the catalysts for growth is the acquisition of Mirati Therapeutics and its oncology drug, Krazati.

BMY stock charts

The J.M. Smucker Company is a sweet treat

The J.M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) shares are in deep value territory in more ways than one. Not only does the stock trade near 12X earnings, near the low-end for blue chip consumer staples companies, but it trades about 1000 basis points below the lowest analyst target, which was very recently set. In this scenario, the market is set up to rebound solidly in 2024 because growth is expected to resume. The consensus target for next year is for revenue and earnings to be up 12%, sufficient to sustain the outlook for dividend increases. 

SJM stock pays about 3.8%, trading near 12X earnings and only pays 45% of earnings. This leaves ample room on the books to continue with annual increases which already top 25 years. The analysts have helped the stock to fall to its current levels with a series of price target reductions. 

However, the analysts have recently upped the consensus sentiment to Hold and see it trading about 30% higher at the consensus price target. The next catalyst will be the FQ2 earnings in early December. The analysts expect a YOY revenue decline but for the margin to expand, and the bar is set low for both. 

SJM stock charts

Investar Holding Corporation Rising; Oversold and overextended value play

Investar Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: ISTR) is the holding corporation for Investar Bank, operating in Southern Louisiana. The share prices are depressed for several reasons, including the bank crisis early in 2023, tepid growth, and its relatively unknown status. However, trading at 5X earnings and paying 3.85% is worth a nibble due to its low 0.20 beta and even lower 18% payout ratio. 

Marketbeat tracks 2 analysts with current ratings in 2023, both set since the middle of the year. They rate the stock at Moderate Buy and see it trading well below its target range. A move to the analysts' low target is worth more than 30%, and the consensus figure adds a few hundred basis points. 

The chart is promising. Although trading at a long-term low, the indicators show the market diverges from its trend and is set up to rebound. The MACD and stochastic are already firing a bullish signal, so this market could see a substantial rally before the end of the year. 

ISTR stock charts

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