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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 Unpopular Stocks with Mounting Challenges

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When Wall Street turns bearish on a stock, it’s worth paying attention. These calls stand out because analysts rarely issue grim ratings on companies for fear their firms will lose out in other business lines such as M&A advisory.

Whatever the consensus opinion may be, our team at StockStory cuts through the noise by conducting independent analysis to determine a company’s long-term prospects. That said, here are three stocks facing legitimate challenges and some alternatives worth exploring instead.

Dropbox (DBX)

Consensus Price Target: $27.36 (-2.3% implied return)

Founded by the long-serving CEO Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007, Dropbox (NASDAQ: DBX) provides a file hosting cloud platform that helps organizations collaborate and share documents.

Why Do We Think Twice About DBX?

  1. Billings didn’t grow over the last year, suggesting the company struggled to sell its software and might have to lower prices to stimulate growth
  2. Sales are projected to tank by 2.7% over the next 12 months as demand evaporates
  3. Expenses have increased as a percentage of revenue over the last year as its operating margin fell by 3 percentage points

Dropbox’s stock price of $28 implies a valuation ratio of 3.3x forward price-to-sales. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including DBX in your portfolio.

Q2 Holdings (QTWO)

Consensus Price Target: $101.26 (7.1% implied return)

Founded in 2004 by Hank Seale, Q2 (NYSE: QTWO) offers software-as-a-service that enables small banks to provide online banking and consumer lending services to their clients.

Why Does QTWO Fall Short?

  1. Revenue increased by 11.8% annually over the last three years, acceptable on an absolute basis but tepid for a software company enjoying secular tailwinds
  2. Gross margin of 51.8% is way below its competitors, leaving less money to invest in areas like marketing and R&D
  3. Capital intensity will likely increase as its free cash flow margin is anticipated to drop by 2.4 percentage points over the next year

At $94.59 per share, Q2 Holdings trades at 7.7x forward price-to-sales. If you’re considering QTWO for your portfolio, see our FREE research report to learn more.

BWX (BWXT)

Consensus Price Target: $141.22 (-1.2% implied return)

Contributing components and materials to the famous Manhattan Project in the 1940s, BWX (NYSE: BWXT) is a manufacturer and service provider of nuclear components and fuel for government and commercial industries.

Why Is BWXT Not Exciting?

  1. Annual revenue growth of 6.6% over the last five years was below our standards for the industrials sector
  2. Costs have risen faster than its revenue over the last five years, causing its operating margin to decline by 2.4 percentage points
  3. Earnings growth underperformed the sector average over the last five years as its EPS grew by just 3% annually

BWX is trading at $142.91 per share, or 39.7x forward P/E. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than BWXT.

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