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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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1 Small-Cap Stock to Target This Week and 2 We Avoid

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Small-cap stocks can be incredibly lucrative investments because their lack of analyst coverage leads to frequent mispricings. However, these businesses (and their stock prices) often stay small because their subscale operations make it harder to expand their competitive moats.

These trade-offs can cause headaches for even the most seasoned professionals, which is why we started StockStory - to help you separate the good companies from the bad. That said, here is one small-cap stock that could amplify your portfolio’s returns and two best left ignored.

Two Small-Cap Stocks to Sell:

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD)

Market Cap: $813.2 million

Founded as Lydon & Drews dredging company, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ: GLDD) provides dredging services, land reclamation, and coastal protection projects in the United States and internationally.

Why Is GLDD Not Exciting?

  1. 2.9% annual revenue growth over the last five years was slower than its industrials peers
  2. Projected sales decline of 1.3% for the next 12 months points to a tough demand environment ahead
  3. Cash burn makes us question whether it can achieve sustainable long-term growth

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock’s stock price of $12.00 implies a valuation ratio of 15x forward P/E. To fully understand why you should be careful with GLDD, check out our full research report (it’s free for active Edge members).

Methode Electronics (MEI)

Market Cap: $287 million

Founded in 1946, Methode Electronics (NYSE: MEI) is a global supplier of custom-engineered solutions for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

Why Should You Sell MEI?

  1. Annual sales declines of 6.8% for the past two years show its products and services struggled to connect with the market during this cycle
  2. Free cash flow margin dropped by 11.6 percentage points over the last five years, implying the company became more capital intensive as competition picked up
  3. Shrinking returns on capital from an already weak position reveal that neither previous nor ongoing investments are yielding the desired results

Methode Electronics is trading at $8.15 per share, or 204x forward P/E. Check out our free in-depth research report to learn more about why MEI doesn’t pass our bar.

One Small-Cap Stock to Buy:

WisdomTree (WT)

Market Cap: $1.95 billion

Originally founded as a financial media company before pivoting to ETF management in 2006, WisdomTree (NYSE: WT) is a financial services company that creates and manages exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other investment products for individual and institutional investors.

Why Do We Love WT?

  1. Market share has increased this cycle as its 18.6% annual revenue growth over the last two years was exceptional
  2. Additional sales over the last two years increased its profitability as the 62.9% annual growth in its earnings per share outpaced its revenue
  3. Market-beating return on equity illustrates that management has a knack for investing in profitable ventures

At $13.70 per share, WisdomTree trades at 17.1x forward P/E. Is now the time to initiate a position? Find out in our full research report, it’s free for active Edge members.

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