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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3 Volatile Stocks with Questionable Fundamentals

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Market swings can be tough to stomach, and volatile stocks often experience exaggerated moves in both directions. While many thrive during risk-on environments, many also struggle to maintain investor confidence when the ride gets bumpy.

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Carrier Global (CARR)

Rolling One-Year Beta: 1.31

Founded by the inventor of air conditioning, Carrier Global (NYSE: CARR) manufactures heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration products.

Why Does CARR Worry Us?

  1. Organic sales performance over the past two years indicates the company may need to make strategic adjustments or rely on M&A to catalyze faster growth
  2. Free cash flow margin shrank by 5.3 percentage points over the last five years, suggesting the company is consuming more capital to stay competitive
  3. Shrinking returns on capital suggest that increasing competition is eating into the company’s profitability

Carrier Global is trading at $62.49 per share, or 19x forward P/E. To fully understand why you should be careful with CARR, check out our full research report (it’s free).

BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG)

Rolling One-Year Beta: 1.21

Founded in 1974, BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ: BTSG) offers home health care, hospice, neuro-rehabilitation, and pharmacy services.

Why Are We Wary of BTSG?

  1. Efficiency has decreased over the last five years as its adjusted operating margin fell by 2.4 percentage points
  2. Falling earnings per share over the last four years has some investors worried as stock prices ultimately follow EPS over the long term
  3. Free cash flow margin dropped by 5.3 percentage points over the last five years, implying the company became more capital intensive as competition picked up

BrightSpring Health Services’s stock price of $28.49 implies a valuation ratio of 28.6x forward P/E. If you’re considering BTSG for your portfolio, see our FREE research report to learn more.

Banner Bank (BANR)

Rolling One-Year Beta: 1.07

Founded in 1890 in Walla Walla, Washington, and evolving through more than a century of economic cycles, Banner Corporation (NASDAQ: BANR) operates Banner Bank, providing commercial banking services, loans, and financial products to individuals and businesses across Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Utah.

Why Does BANR Give Us Pause?

  1. Flat sales over the last two years suggest it must find different ways to grow during this cycle
  2. Net interest income trends were unexciting over the last five years as its 3.6% annual growth was below the typical banking firm
  3. Performance over the past two years shows each sale was less profitable, as its earnings per share fell by 7.9% annually

At $66.50 per share, Banner Bank trades at 1.2x forward P/B. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including BANR in your portfolio.

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