About Cabling Installation & Maintenance

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 Small-Cap Stocks Skating on Thin Ice

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Many small-cap stocks have limited Wall Street coverage, giving savvy investors the chance to act before everyone else catches on. But the flip side is that these businesses have increased downside risk because they lack the scale and staying power of their larger competitors.

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Lovesac (LOVE)

Market Cap: $334.4 million

Known for its oversized, premium beanbags, Lovesac (NASDAQ: LOVE) is a specialty furniture brand selling modular furniture.

Why Does LOVE Worry Us?

  1. Muted 6.4% annual revenue growth over the last two years shows its demand lagged behind its consumer discretionary peers
  2. Estimated sales growth of 1.4% for the next 12 months implies demand will slow from its two-year trend
  3. Diminishing returns on capital suggest its earlier profit pools are drying up

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Vail Resorts (MTN)

Market Cap: $5.86 billion

Founded by two Aspen, Colorado ski patrol guides, Vail Resorts (NYSE: MTN) is a mountain resort company offering luxury experiences in over 30 locations across the globe.

Why Are We Cautious About MTN?

  1. Performance surrounding its skier visits has lagged its peers
  2. Estimated sales growth of 4.3% for the next 12 months is soft and implies weaker demand
  3. Incremental sales over the last five years were much less profitable as its earnings per share fell by 16.9% annually while its revenue grew

At $156.54 per share, Vail Resorts trades at 21.3x forward price-to-earnings. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including MTN in your portfolio.

AGCO (AGCO)

Market Cap: $7.30 billion

With a history that features both organic growth and acquisitions, AGCO (NYSE: AGCO) designs, manufactures, and sells agricultural machinery and related technology.

Why Do We Think AGCO Will Underperform?

  1. Organic sales performance over the past two years indicates the company may need to make strategic adjustments or rely on M&A to catalyze faster growth
  2. Expenses have increased as a percentage of revenue over the last five years as its operating margin fell by 7.6 percentage points
  3. Earnings per share fell by 40.8% annually over the last five years while its revenue grew, showing its incremental sales were much less profitable

AGCO is trading at $98.03 per share, or 23.3x forward price-to-earnings. Check out our free in-depth research report to learn more about why AGCO doesn’t pass our bar.

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