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.

Contact Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Editorial

Patrick McLaughlin

Serena Aburahma

Advertising and Sponsorship Sales

Peter Fretty - Vice President, Market Leader

Tim Carli - Business Development Manager

Brayden Hudspeth - Sales Development Representative

Subscriptions and Memberships

Subscribe to our newsletters and manage your subscriptions

Feedback/Problems

Send a message to our general in-box

 

Toast (TOST) Stock Trades Up, Here Is Why

TOST Cover Image

What Happened?

Shares of restaurant software platform Toast (NYSE: TOST) jumped 12.2% in the afternoon session after the company reported strong first quarter 2025 results and provided optimistic EBITDA guidance for next quarter, which blew past analysts' expectations. In addition, its EBITDA outperformed Wall Street's estimates by a wide margin. 

The real story this time was Toast's deal with Applebee's, which was the biggest win in its history and opened doors for more big clients. Sales grew 24% from a year ago, helped by a big jump in recurring revenue and strong growth in payments, boosted by more than 6,000 new restaurant sign-ups. On the other hand, its revenue slightly missed. Zooming out, we think this quarter featured some important positives.

Is now the time to buy Toast? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free.

What The Market Is Telling Us

Toast’s shares are very volatile and have had 20 moves greater than 5% over the last year. But moves this big are rare even for Toast and indicate this news significantly impacted the market’s perception of the business.

The biggest move we wrote about over the last year was 6 months ago when the stock gained 22.8% on the news that the company reported strong third-quarter 2024 earnings and provided an optimistic EBITDA forecast for the next quarter, which blew past analysts' expectations. While sales were in line with Wall Street's expectations, EPS and EBITDA beat more convincingly during the quarter. 

Sales growth was driven by an increase in the number of operational locations and higher SaaS revenue. This growth was further supported by the introduction of new product offerings, such as SMS marketing and branded apps, which effectively boosted customer engagement. 

Despite some pressure on annual recurring revenue (ARR), the company maintained momentum in expanding its addressable market, notably in the international and retail segments, setting the stage for sustained long-term growth​. Zooming out, we think this was a good quarter with some key areas of upside.

Toast is up 12.4% since the beginning of the year, and at $40.89 per share, it is trading close to its 52-week high of $43.54 from November 2024. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Toast’s shares at the IPO in September 2021 would now be looking at an investment worth $654.14.

Do you want to know what moves the business you care about? Add them to your StockStory watchlist and every time a stock significantly moves, we provide you with a timely explanation straight to your inbox. It’s free and will only take you a second.

Stock Quote API & Stock News API supplied by www.cloudquote.io
Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes.
By accessing this page, you agree to the following
Privacy Policy and Terms Of Service.