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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 Cash-Producing Stocks with Warning Signs

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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.

Cash flow is valuable, but it’s not everything - StockStory helps you identify the companies that truly put it to work. Keeping that in mind, here are three cash-producing companies that don’t make the cut and some better opportunities instead.

Analog Devices (ADI)

Trailing 12-Month Free Cash Flow Margin: 33.5%

Founded by two MIT graduates, Ray Stata and Matthew Lorber in 1965, Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI) is one of the largest providers of high performance analog integrated circuits used mainly in industrial end markets, along with communications, autos, and consumer devices.

Why Does ADI Fall Short?

  1. Customers postponed purchases of its products and services this cycle as its revenue declined by 12.7% annually over the last two years
  2. Costs have risen faster than its revenue over the last five years, causing its operating margin to decline by 7.3 percentage points
  3. Underwhelming 6.4% return on capital reflects management’s difficulties in finding profitable growth opportunities, and its shrinking returns suggest its past profit sources are losing steam

Analog Devices is trading at $241.50 per share, or 30.7x forward P/E. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including ADI in your portfolio.

Tapestry (TPR)

Trailing 12-Month Free Cash Flow Margin: 13%

Originally founded as Coach, Tapestry (NYSE: TPR) is an American fashion conglomerate with a portfolio of luxury brands offering high-quality accessories and fashion products.

Why Are We Cautious About TPR?

  1. Lackluster 1.6% annual revenue growth over the last two years indicates the company is losing ground to competitors
  2. Underwhelming constant currency revenue performance over the past two years suggests its product offering at current prices doesn’t resonate with customers
  3. Demand will likely be soft over the next 12 months as Wall Street’s estimates imply tepid growth of 3%

Tapestry’s stock price of $102.16 implies a valuation ratio of 19.9x forward P/E. To fully understand why you should be careful with TPR, check out our full research report (it’s free).

Rockwell Automation (ROK)

Trailing 12-Month Free Cash Flow Margin: 13.4%

One of the first companies to address industrial automation, Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) sells products that help customers extract more efficiency from their machinery.

Why Do We Pass on ROK?

  1. Absence of organic revenue growth over the past two years suggests it may have to lean into acquisitions to drive its expansion
  2. Sales were less profitable over the last two years as its earnings per share fell by 8% annually, worse than its revenue declines
  3. Eroding returns on capital suggest its historical profit centers are aging

At $356.49 per share, Rockwell Automation trades at 35.6x forward P/E. Check out our free in-depth research report to learn more about why ROK doesn’t pass our bar.

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