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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 with Exciting Potential and 2 to Ignore

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Industrials businesses quietly power the physical things we depend on, from cars and homes to e-commerce infrastructure. But they are at the whim of volatile macroeconomic factors that influence capital spending (like interest rates), and the market seems convinced that demand will slow. Due to this bearish outlook, the industry has tumbled by 2.2% over the past six months. This drop was discouraging since the S&P 500 held steady.

Despite the lackluster result, a few diamonds in the rough can produce earnings growth no matter what, and we started StockStory to help you find them. With that said, here is one industrials stock poised to generate sustainable market-beating returns and two we’re passing on.

Two Industrials Stocks to Sell:

A. O. Smith (AOS)

Market Cap: $9.63 billion

Credited with the invention of the glass-lined water heater, A.O. Smith (NYSE: AOS) manufactures water heating and treatment products for various industries.

Why Are We Wary of AOS?

  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. Estimated sales for the next 12 months are flat and imply a softer demand environment
  3. Capital intensity has ramped up over the last five years as its free cash flow margin decreased by 5 percentage points

At $67.60 per share, A. O. Smith trades at 16.7x forward price-to-earnings. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including AOS in your portfolio.

Plug Power (PLUG)

Market Cap: $1.55 billion

Powering forklifts for Walmart’s distribution centers, Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) provides hydrogen fuel cells used to power electric motors.

Why Do We Think PLUG Will Underperform?

  1. Sales trends were unexciting over the last two years as its 1.3% annual growth was below the typical industrials company
  2. 138.1 percentage point decline in its free cash flow margin over the last five years reflects the company’s increased investments to defend its market position
  3. Depletion of cash reserves could lead to a fundraising event that triggers shareholder dilution

Plug Power’s stock price of $1.71 implies a valuation ratio of 1.9x forward price-to-sales. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than PLUG.

One Industrials Stock to Buy:

Verra Mobility (VRRM)

Market Cap: $3.18 billion

Managing over 165 million tolling transactions per year, Verra Mobility (NYSE: VRRM) is a leading provider of smart mobility technology that enhances safety, efficiency, and convenience on roadways.

Why Will VRRM Beat the Market?

  1. Annual revenue growth of 14.4% over the last five years was superb and indicates its market share increased during this cycle
  2. Offerings are difficult to replicate at scale and result in a best-in-class gross margin of 62.3%
  3. Robust free cash flow margin of 19.6% gives it many options for capital deployment, and its growing cash flow gives it even more resources to deploy

Verra Mobility is trading at $20.13 per share, or 15.2x forward price-to-earnings. Is now the right time to buy? Find out in our full research report, it’s free.

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