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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1 Cash-Producing Stock for Long-Term Investors and 2 Facing Headwinds

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Matrix Service (MTRX)

Trailing 12-Month Free Cash Flow Margin: 15.8%

Founded in Oklahoma, Matrix Service (NASDAQ: MTRX) provides engineering, fabrication, construction, and maintenance services primarily to the energy and industrial markets.

Why Does MTRX Worry Us?

  1. Customers postponed purchases of its products and services this cycle as its revenue declined by 10.7% annually over the last five years
  2. Gross margin of 4.2% reflects its high production costs
  3. Performance over the past five years was negatively impacted by new share issuances as its earnings per share dropped by 29.7% annually, worse than its revenue

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Merit Medical Systems (MMSI)

Trailing 12-Month Free Cash Flow Margin: 13.4%

Founded in 1987 and now offering over 1,700 patented products across global markets, Merit Medical Systems (NASDAQ: MMSI) manufactures and markets specialized medical devices used in minimally invasive procedures for cardiology, radiology, oncology, critical care, and endoscopy.

Why Is MMSI Not Exciting?

  1. Smaller revenue base of $1.43 billion means it hasn’t achieved the economies of scale that some industry juggernauts enjoy
  2. Underwhelming 4.5% return on capital reflects management’s difficulties in finding profitable growth opportunities

Merit Medical Systems’s stock price of $90.05 implies a valuation ratio of 26.1x forward P/E. If you’re considering MMSI for your portfolio, see our FREE research report to learn more.

One Stock to Buy:

Texas Roadhouse (TXRH)

Trailing 12-Month Free Cash Flow Margin: 6.6%

With locations often featuring Western-inspired decor, Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ: TXRH) is an American restaurant chain specializing in Southern-style cuisine and steaks.

Why Are We Backing TXRH?

  1. Aggressive strategy of rolling out new restaurants to gobble up whitespace is prudent given its same-store sales growth
  2. Average same-store sales growth of 7.5% over the past two years indicates its restaurants are resonating with diners
  3. ROIC punches in at 20.7%, illustrating management’s expertise in identifying profitable investments

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