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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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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.

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 are three small-cap stocks to swipe left on and some alternatives you should look into instead.

Dropbox (DBX)

Market Cap: $7.82 billion

Founded by the long-serving CEO Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007, Dropbox (NASDAQ: DBX) provides a file hosting cloud platform that helps organizations collaborate and share documents.

Why Does DBX Give Us Pause?

  1. Average billings growth of 1.1% over the last year was subpar, suggesting it struggled to push its software and might have to lower prices to stimulate demand
  2. Estimated sales decline of 2.9% for the next 12 months implies a challenging demand environment
  3. Costs have risen faster than its revenue over the last year, causing its operating margin to decline by 2.5 percentage points

Dropbox is trading at $25.75 per share, or 3.2x forward price-to-sales. Check out our free in-depth research report to learn more about why DBX doesn’t pass our bar.

Cushman & Wakefield (CWK)

Market Cap: $2.65 billion

With expertise in the commercial real estate sector, Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a global Chicago-based real estate firm offering a comprehensive range of services to clients.

Why Should You Sell CWK?

  1. Annual revenue declines of 3.3% over the last two years indicate problems with its market positioning
  2. Incremental sales over the last five years were much less profitable as its earnings per share fell by 11.1% annually while its revenue grew
  3. Below-average returns on capital indicate management struggled to find compelling investment opportunities

Cushman & Wakefield’s stock price of $12 implies a valuation ratio of 9.9x forward price-to-earnings. To fully understand why you should be careful with CWK, check out our full research report (it’s free).

Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ)

Market Cap: $8.52 billion

Founded in 2003, Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: JAZZ) develops and commercializes therapies to address unmet medical needs in neuroscience, oncology, and rare diseases.

Why Are We Wary of JAZZ?

  1. Muted 5.4% annual revenue growth over the last two years shows its demand lagged behind its healthcare peers
  2. Free cash flow margin shrank by 4.1 percentage points over the last five years, suggesting the company is consuming more capital to stay competitive
  3. ROIC of 3.9% reflects management’s challenges in identifying attractive investment opportunities

At $140.22 per share, Jazz Pharmaceuticals trades at 6.3x forward price-to-earnings. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including JAZZ in your portfolio.

Stocks We Like More

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Put yourself in the driver’s seat by checking out our Top 6 Stocks for this week. This is a curated list of our High Quality stocks that have generated a market-beating return of 175% over the last five years.

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