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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.

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1 Industrials Stock for Long-Term Investors and 2 We Brush Off

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Whether you see them or not, industrials businesses play a crucial part in our daily activities. But their prominence also brings high exposure to the ups and downs of economic cycles. Luckily, the tide is turning in their favor as the industry’s 28.1% return over the past six months has topped the S&P 500 by 9.3 percentage points.

Nevertheless, investors must be mindful as the cycle can unexpectedly turn. When this inevitably happens, only the elite companies will survive and ultimately thrive. With that said, here is one industrials stock poised to generate sustainable market-beating returns and two that may face trouble.

Two Industrials Stocks to Sell:

RTX (RTX)

Market Cap: $224 billion

Originally focused on refrigeration technology, Raytheon (NSYE:RTX) provides a a variety of products and services to the aerospace and defense industries.

Why Does RTX Give Us Pause?

  1. Estimated sales growth of 4.8% for the next 12 months implies demand will slow from its two-year trend
  2. Earnings growth over the last five years fell short of the peer group average as its EPS only increased by 4.8% annually
  3. Below-average returns on capital indicate management struggled to find compelling investment opportunities

At $167.50 per share, RTX trades at 27.1x forward P/E. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including RTX in your portfolio.

D.R. Horton (DHI)

Market Cap: $50.52 billion

One of the largest homebuilding companies in the U.S., D.R. Horton (NYSE: DHI) builds a variety of new construction homes across multiple markets.

Why Do We Think Twice About DHI?

  1. Backlog has dropped by 17% on average over the past two years, suggesting it’s losing orders as competition picks up
  2. Falling earnings per share over the last two years has some investors worried as stock prices ultimately follow EPS over the long term
  3. Eroding returns on capital suggest its historical profit centers are aging

D.R. Horton’s stock price of $169.43 implies a valuation ratio of 14.3x forward P/E. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than DHI.

One Industrials Stock to Buy:

Blue Bird (BLBD)

Market Cap: $1.82 billion

With around a century of experience, Blue Bird (NASDAQ: BLBD) is a manufacturer of school buses and complementary parts.

Why Is BLBD a Top Pick?

  1. Market share has increased this cycle as its 14.3% annual revenue growth over the last two years was exceptional
  2. Additional sales over the last two years increased its profitability as the 317% annual growth in its earnings per share outpaced its revenue
  3. Returns on capital are climbing as management makes more lucrative bets

Blue Bird is trading at $57.98 per share, or 14.1x forward P/E. Is now the right time to buy? See for yourself in our full research report, it’s free.

Stocks We Like Even More

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