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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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RE/MAX (RMAX)

Consensus Price Target: $9 (5% implied return)

Short for Real Estate Maximums, RE/MAX (NYSE: RMAX) operates a real estate franchise network spanning over 100 countries and territories.

Why Do We Avoid RMAX?

  1. Sluggish trends in its agents suggest customers aren’t adopting its solutions as quickly as the company hoped
  2. Performance over the past five years shows its incremental sales were much less profitable, as its earnings per share fell by 6.7% annually
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MYR Group (MYRG)

Consensus Price Target: $209.25 (1.1% implied return)

Constructing electrical and phone lines in the American Midwest dating back to the 1890s, MYR Group (NASDAQ: MYRG) is a specialty contractor in the electrical construction industry.

Why Do We Pass on MYRG?

  1. Demand cratered as it couldn’t win new orders over the past two years, leading to an average 2.4% decline in its backlog
  2. Earnings per share fell by 4.6% annually over the last two years while its revenue grew, showing its incremental sales were much less profitable
  3. Diminishing returns on capital suggest its earlier profit pools are drying up

At $207 per share, MYR Group trades at 27.6x forward P/E. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including MYRG in your portfolio.

Global Industrial (GIC)

Consensus Price Target: $38 (8.8% implied return)

Formerly known as Systemax, Global Industrial (NYSE: GIC) distributes industrial and commercial products to businesses and institutions.

Why Are We Wary of GIC?

  1. Muted 6.9% annual revenue growth over the last two years shows its demand lagged behind its industrials peers
  2. Incremental sales over the last two years were much less profitable as its earnings per share fell by 2.3% annually while its revenue grew
  3. Shrinking returns on capital suggest that increasing competition is eating into the company’s profitability

Global Industrial’s stock price of $34.94 implies a valuation ratio of 17.9x forward P/E. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than GIC.

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