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.

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iHeartMedia (IHRT)

Rolling One-Year Beta: 2.12

Occasionally featuring celebrity hosts like Ryan Seacrest on its shows, iHeartMedia (NASDAQ: IHRT) is a leading multimedia company renowned for its extensive network of radio stations, digital platforms, and live events across the globe.

Why Do We Think IHRT Will Underperform?

  1. Products and services fail to spark excitement with consumers, as seen in its flat sales over the last two years
  2. Waning returns on capital from an already weak starting point displays the inefficacy of management’s past and current investment decisions
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Jabil (JBL)

Rolling One-Year Beta: 1.52

With manufacturing facilities spanning the globe from China to Mexico to the United States, Jabil (NYSE: JBL) provides electronics design, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions to companies across various industries, from healthcare to automotive to cloud computing.

Why Does JBL Give Us Pause?

  1. Annual sales declines of 10.1% for the past two years show its products and services struggled to connect with the market during this cycle
  2. Earnings growth over the last two years fell short of the peer group average as its EPS only increased by 1.6% annually
  3. Low free cash flow margin of 3.1% for the last five years gives it little breathing room, constraining its ability to self-fund growth or return capital to shareholders

At $214 per share, Jabil trades at 20.8x forward P/E. If you’re considering JBL for your portfolio, see our FREE research report to learn more.

XPO (XPO)

Rolling One-Year Beta: 1.78

Owning a mobile game simulating freight operations for the Tour de France, XPO (NYSE: XPO) is a transportation company specializing in expedited shipping services.

Why Do We Avoid XPO?

  1. Customers postponed purchases of its products and services this cycle as its revenue declined by 6.5% annually over the last five years
  2. Flat earnings per share over the last two years underperformed the sector average
  3. Free cash flow margin shrank by 7.2 percentage points over the last five years, suggesting the company is consuming more capital to stay competitive

XPO is trading at $137.43 per share, or 33.8x forward P/E. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than XPO.

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