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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 Software Stocks with Competitive Advantages and 1 Facing Challenges

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From commerce to culture, software is digitizing every aspect of our lives. The undeniable tailwinds fueling SaaS companies have led to lofty valuation multiples historically, but rich prices also make re-ratings harder and place a ceiling on returns - over the past six months, the industry’s 5.3% gain has lagged the S&P 500 by 5.2 percentage points.

Investors should tread carefully as only some businesses are worthy of their valuations, and luckily for you, we started StockStory to help you find them. With that said, here are two resilient software stocks at the top of our wish list and one we’re swiping left on.

One Software Stock to Sell:

nCino (NCNO)

Market Cap: $3.72 billion

Born from the internal technology needs of a community bank in 2011, nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO) provides cloud-based software that helps financial institutions streamline client onboarding, loan origination, and account opening processes.

Why Is NCNO Not Exciting?

  1. Sales trends were unexciting over the last three years as its 19.1% annual growth was below the typical software company
  2. Estimated sales growth of 5.7% for the next 12 months implies demand will slow from its three-year trend
  3. Gross margin of 60.2% is below its competitors, leaving less money to invest in areas like marketing and R&D

nCino is trading at $32 per share, or 6.1x forward price-to-sales. To fully understand why you should be careful with NCNO, check out our full research report (it’s free).

Two Software Stocks to Watch:

Dynatrace (DT)

Market Cap: $15.26 billion

With its platform processing over 30 trillion pieces of IT performance data daily, Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) provides an AI-powered platform that helps organizations monitor, secure, and optimize their applications and IT infrastructure across cloud environments.

Why Does DT Stand Out?

  1. Average billings growth of 18.9% over the last year enhances its liquidity and shows there is steady demand for its products
  2. Software is difficult to replicate at scale and leads to a premier gross margin of 81.9%
  3. Strong free cash flow margin of 26.2% enables it to reinvest or return capital consistently

Dynatrace’s stock price of $50.40 implies a valuation ratio of 7.5x forward price-to-sales. Is now the right time to buy? See for yourself in our in-depth research report, it’s free.

Shopify (SHOP)

Market Cap: $183.6 billion

Starting with just three people selling snowboards online in 2004, Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) provides a comprehensive platform that enables merchants of all sizes to create, manage and grow their businesses across multiple sales channels.

Why Are We Fans of SHOP?

  1. Payment activity on its platform is soaring as its TPV growth averaged 33.6% over the last year, enabling the company to collect more fees and upsell additional services like banking
  2. Expected revenue growth of 23.7% for the next year suggests its market share will rise
  3. Software platform has product-market fit given the rapid recovery of its customer acquisition costs

At $141.30 per share, Shopify trades at 14.9x forward price-to-sales. Is now the time to initiate a position? Find out in our full research report, it’s free.

Stocks We Like Even More

Trump’s April 2025 tariff bombshell triggered a massive market selloff, but stocks have since staged an impressive recovery, leaving those who panic sold on the sidelines.

Take advantage of the rebound by checking out our Top 9 Market-Beating Stocks. This is a curated list of our High Quality stocks that have generated a market-beating return of 183% over the last five years (as of March 31st 2025).

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