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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 Consumer Stock to Target This Week and 2 We Turn Down

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Retailers are overhauling their operations as technology redefines the shopping experience. Still, secular trends are working against their favor as e-commerce continues to take share from brick and mortars. This puts retail stocks in a tough spot, and over the past six months, the industry has pulled back by 7.7%. This performance is a stark contrast from the S&P 500’s 5.4% gain.

The elite companies can churn out earnings growth under any circumstance, however, and our mission at StockStory is to help you find them. Keeping that in mind, here is one resilient consumer stock at the top of our shopping list and two we’re swiping left on.

Two Consumer Retail Stocks to Sell:

Shoe Carnival (SCVL)

Market Cap: $571.9 million

Known for its playful atmosphere that features carnival elements, Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ: SCVL) is a retailer that sells footwear from mainstream brands for the entire family.

Why Do We Think SCVL Will Underperform?

  1. Disappointing same-store sales over the past two years show customers aren’t responding well to its product selection and store experience
  2. Smaller revenue base of $1.18 billion means it hasn’t achieved the economies of scale that some industry juggernauts enjoy
  3. Demand will likely fall over the next 12 months as Wall Street expects flat revenue

At $21.33 per share, Shoe Carnival trades at 7.5x forward EV-to-EBITDA. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including SCVL in your portfolio.

Advance Auto Parts (AAP)

Market Cap: $3.34 billion

Founded in Virginia in 1932, Advance Auto Parts (NYSE: AAP) is an auto parts and accessories retailer that sells everything from carburetors to motor oil to car floor mats.

Why Should You Sell AAP?

  1. Weak same-store sales trends over the past two years suggest there may be few opportunities in its core markets to open new locations
  2. Inability to adjust its cost structure while its revenue declined over the last year led to a 10.4 percentage point drop in the company’s operating margin
  3. Unfavorable liquidity position could lead to additional equity financing that dilutes shareholders

Advance Auto Parts’s stock price of $56.81 implies a valuation ratio of 26.1x forward P/E. To fully understand why you should be careful with AAP, check out our full research report (it’s free).

One Consumer Retail Stock to Watch:

TJX (TJX)

Market Cap: $140.4 billion

Initially based on a strategy of buying excess inventory from manufacturers or other retailers, TJX (NYSE: TJX) is an off-price retailer that sells brand-name apparel and other goods at prices much lower than department stores.

Why Is TJX Interesting?

  1. Store expansion strategy is justified by its healthy same-store sales
  2. Same-store sales growth averaged 4.4% over the past two years, showing it’s bringing new and repeat shoppers into its stores
  3. Massive revenue base of $56.99 billion makes up for its weaker gross margin and makes it a household name that influences purchasing decisions

TJX is trading at $124.57 per share, or 27.5x forward P/E. Is now the right time to buy? Find out in our full research report, it’s free.

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