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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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3 Cash-Producing Stocks in the Doghouse

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Generating cash is essential for any business, but not all cash-rich companies are great investments. Some produce plenty of cash but fail to allocate it effectively, leading to missed opportunities.

Luckily for you, we built StockStory to help you separate the good from the bad. Keeping that in mind, here are three cash-producing companies that don’t make the cut and some better opportunities instead.

Yext (YEXT)

Trailing 12-Month Free Cash Flow Margin: 11.4%

Founded in 2006 by Howard Lerman, Yext (NYSE: YEXT) offers software as a service that helps their clients manage and monitor their online listings and customer reviews across all relevant databases, from Google Maps to Alexa or Siri.

Why Do We Avoid YEXT?

  1. ARR growth averaged a weak 4% over the last year, suggesting that competition is pulling some attention away from its software
  2. Long payback periods on sales and marketing expenses limit customer growth and signal the company operates in a highly competitive environment
  3. Day-to-day expenses have swelled relative to revenue over the last year as its operating margin fell by 6.2 percentage points

Yext is trading at $6.38 per share, or 1.9x forward price-to-sales. Check out our free in-depth research report to learn more about why YEXT doesn’t pass our bar.

Flowserve (FLS)

Trailing 12-Month Free Cash Flow Margin: 5.1%

Manufacturing the largest pump ever built for nuclear power generation, Flowserve (NYSE: FLS) manufactures and sells flow control equipment for various industries.

Why Does FLS Fall Short?

  1. New orders were hard to come by as its average backlog growth of 3.6% over the past two years underwhelmed
  2. Estimated sales growth of 5.7% for the next 12 months implies demand will slow from its two-year trend
  3. Free cash flow margin dropped by 1.7 percentage points over the last five years, implying the company became more capital intensive as competition picked up

Flowserve’s stock price of $46.69 implies a valuation ratio of 14.5x forward P/E. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than FLS.

Cisco (CSCO)

Trailing 12-Month Free Cash Flow Margin: 23.6%

Founded in 1984 by a husband and wife team who wanted computers at Stanford to talk to computers at UC Berkeley, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) designs and sells networking equipment, security solutions, and collaboration tools that help businesses connect their systems and secure their digital operations.

Why Should You Sell CSCO?

  1. Sales were flat over the last two years, indicating it’s failed to expand this cycle
  2. 6.3 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. Eroding returns on capital suggest its historical profit centers are aging

At $59.50 per share, Cisco trades at 15.8x forward P/E. If you’re considering CSCO for your portfolio, see our FREE research report to learn more.

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