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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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2 S&P 500 Stocks with Exciting Potential and 1 We Turn Down

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The S&P 500 (^GSPC) is often seen as a benchmark for strong businesses, but that doesn’t mean every stock is worth owning. Some companies face significant challenges, whether it’s stagnating growth, heavy debt, or disruptive new competitors.

Picking the right S&P 500 stocks requires more than just buying big names, and that’s where StockStory comes in. Keeping that in mind, here are two S&P 500 stocks leading the market forward and one best left off your watchlist.

One Stock to Sell:

Cisco (CSCO)

Market Cap: $278.8 billion

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 Is CSCO Not Exciting?

  1. Products and services are facing end-market challenges during this cycle, as seen in its flat sales over the last two years
  2. Capital intensity has ramped up over the last five years as its free cash flow margin decreased by 6.2 percentage points
  3. Eroding returns on capital suggest its historical profit centers are aging

Cisco is trading at $69.28 per share, or 17.5x forward P/E. Check out our free in-depth research report to learn more about why CSCO doesn’t pass our bar.

Two Stocks to Watch:

Micron (MU)

Market Cap: $139.1 billion

Founded in the basement of a Boise, Idaho dental office in 1978, Micron (NYSE: MU) is a leading provider of memory chips used in thousands of devices across mobile, data centers, industrial, consumer, and automotive markets.

Why Are We Fans of MU?

  1. Annual revenue growth of 36.4% over the last two years was superb and indicates its market share increased during this cycle
  2. Market share is on track to rise over the next 12 months as its 39.7% projected revenue growth implies demand will accelerate from its two-year trend
  3. Incremental sales over the last five years have been more profitable as its earnings per share increased by 22.8% annually, topping its revenue gains

Micron’s stock price of $123.97 implies a valuation ratio of 12.4x forward P/E. Is now the time to initiate a position? Find out in our full research report, it’s free.

Wabtec (WAB)

Market Cap: $33.23 billion

Also known as Wabtec, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (NYSE: WAB) provides equipment, systems, and related software for the railway industry.

Why Does WAB Catch Our Eye?

  1. Operating margin improvement of 6.4 percentage points over the last five years demonstrates its ability to scale efficiently
  2. Performance over the past two years was turbocharged by share buybacks, which enabled its earnings per share to grow faster than its revenue
  3. WAB is a free cash flow machine with the flexibility to invest in growth initiatives or return capital to shareholders, and its recently improved profitability means it has even more resources to invest or distribute

At $194.92 per share, Wabtec trades at 27x forward EV-to-EBITDA. Is now the right time to buy? See for yourself in our in-depth research report, it’s free.

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