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Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

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.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

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3 AI Stocks That High-Yield Dividend Investors Will Love

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Artificial intelligence stocks

AI is hot. It is expected to grow at a 50% CAGR or higher for the next several years, which certainly looks true for NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA). While NVIDIA has captured the attention of investors, now there is another opportunity with longer legs than a data-center revolution: embedding AI into the devices and services we use daily.

That is a secular shift in computing needs that is already underway. When it comes to the AI market, the development of AI is what’s driving markets now, but infrastructure and services will be the largest, fastest-growing markets over the long term. And income investors can take part. 

Analog Devices Is Not Out of the Picture 

Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI) is far behind NVIDIA when it comes to data centers and the AI revolution that is currently underway, but it is not out of the game. Data centers will be a source of near-term weakness for the company, but the long-term opportunity is robust. Analog Devices has a significant exposure to consumer and other end markets that will demand AI embedded in their chips and assemblies. Among ADI’s advantages is focusing on the low-power microcontrollers needed for AI to run in smaller applications.  

Analog Devices is not the highest yield in this group but has a solid payout of 1.9%, with shares near $182. However, ADI has the best outlook for distribution growth, including the lowest payout ratio and highest CAGR. The company has grown its dividend for 20 years, pays out only 30% of earnings, and runs a 12% distribution CAGR for the last 5 years. 

Shares of ADI are in an uptrend but recently pulled back to support. The pullback is an attractive entry point and could lead to double-digit gains soon. The analysts rate the stock a Moderate Buy and see it trading about 12% above the recent action. A move to the consensus target of $204 would put the stock at a new all-time high.  

ADI stock chart

HP Inc. - The PC Revolution Is About To Begin 

HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) is working hard to embed AI into personal computing devices. The company’s CEO says the goal is for consumers and workers to run AI applications at the edge of computing without relying on the cloud. That is a huge advance in hardware and software technology that will allow AI applications to function without the Internet. 

The latest results were weak due to weakness in personal computing. That is expected given the operating environment, but the situation will change as AI applications become embedded in devices. The guidance was also weak but viewed as cautious; given the margin strength, analysts are mixed on the Q2 results but see sufficient strength to sustain the dividend outlook. 

HPQ pays a more robust 3.4% yield, with shares trading near $31.50. It is a reliable yield at 40% of the earnings outlook and is growing. The company has increased the distribution for 13 years at a low-double-digit CAGR that should continue this year. The outlook for earnings growth next year is low single digits, so the pace of dividend increases may slow. 

HPQ stock chart

IBM and the Future of AI-Powered Business Services 

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is not new to the AI game. Its Watson AI has been around for many years but is now reinvigorated. While IBM's business has normalized below the pandemic, the outlook is for growth as we move forward. The consensus for next year is mid-single-digit revenue growth with wider margins to compound earnings. The takeaway from the AI chatter is that IBM is emerging as a 1-stop shop for AI business services and businesses that want to harness the power of AI, so the estimates are likely cautious. 

IBM’s dividend is the largest in the group, yielding nearly 4.55%. The downside is the payout ratio, which is high and over 70%. That’s not a deal-breaker but something to watch as the years progress. IBM is a dividend-growth stock and Dividend Aristocrat. 

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