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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 Mid-Cap Stock with Solid Fundamentals and 2 to Avoid

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Mid-cap stocks often strike the right balance between having proven business models and market opportunities that can support $100 billion corporations. However, they face intense competition from scaled industry giants and can be disrupted by new innovative players vying for a slice of the pie.

Luckily for you, our mission at StockStory is to help you make money and avoid losses by sorting the winners from the losers. That said, here is one mid-cap stock with a long growth runway and two that may have trouble.

Two Mid-Cap Stocks to Sell:

Williams-Sonoma (WSM)

Market Cap: $23.1 billion

Started in 1956 as a store specializing in French cookware, Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM) is a specialty retailer of higher-end kitchenware, home goods, and furniture.

Why Does WSM Worry Us?

  1. Store closures and poor same-store sales reveal weak demand and a push toward operational efficiency
  2. Lagging same-store sales over the past two years suggest it might have to change its pricing and marketing strategy to stimulate demand
  3. Estimated sales growth of 1.7% for the next 12 months implies demand will slow from its five-year trend

Williams-Sonoma’s stock price of $187.62 implies a valuation ratio of 23.1x forward price-to-earnings. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than WSM.

Darden (DRI)

Market Cap: $22.8 billion

Founded in 1968 as Red Lobster, Darden (NYSE: DRI) is a leading American restaurant company that owns and operates a portfolio of popular restaurant brands.

Why Do We Think Twice About DRI?

  1. Annual sales growth of 6% over the last five years lagged behind its restaurant peers as its large revenue base made it difficult to generate incremental demand
  2. Lacking pricing power results in an inferior gross margin of 21.1% that must be offset by turning more tables
  3. Earnings growth over the last five years fell short of the peer group average as its EPS only increased by 8.3% annually

At $194.47 per share, Darden trades at 19.7x forward price-to-earnings. To fully understand why you should be careful with DRI, check out our full research report (it’s free).

One Mid-Cap Stock to Watch:

Tenet Healthcare (THC)

Market Cap: $11.99 billion

Founded in 1967 as a small hospital operator, Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC) is a large hospital, surgical center, and outpatient facility operator today.

Why Do We Like THC?

  1. Share repurchases over the last five years enabled its annual earnings per share growth of 34.7% to outpace its revenue gains
  2. Stellar returns on capital showcase management’s ability to surface highly profitable business ventures, and its returns are climbing as it finds even more attractive growth opportunities

Tenet Healthcare is trading at $126.02 per share, or 11.4x forward price-to-earnings. Is now a good time to buy? Find out in our full research report, it’s free.

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