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 Large-Cap Stock on Our Buy List and 2 We Brush Off

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Two Large-Cap Stocks to Sell:

Equifax (EFX)

Market Cap: $31.17 billion

Holding detailed financial records on over 800 million consumers worldwide and dating back to 1899, Equifax (NYSE: EFX) is a global data analytics company that collects, analyzes, and sells consumer and business credit information to lenders, employers, and other businesses.

Why Is EFX Not Exciting?

  1. Costs have risen faster than its revenue over the last five years, causing its adjusted operating margin to decline by 6.3 percentage points
  2. Incremental sales over the last five years were less profitable as its 4.5% annual earnings per share growth lagged its revenue gains
  3. ROIC of 10.9% reflects management’s challenges in identifying attractive investment opportunities, and its decreasing returns suggest its historical profit centers are aging

Equifax is trading at $251.77 per share, or 30.1x forward P/E. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than EFX.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Market Cap: $31.94 billion

Born from the 2015 split of the iconic Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) provides edge-to-cloud technology solutions that help businesses capture, analyze, and act upon their data across hybrid IT environments.

Why Are We Hesitant About HPE?

  1. Annual sales growth of 4.2% over the last five years lagged behind its business services peers as its large revenue base made it difficult to generate incremental demand
  2. Performance over the past two years shows its incremental sales were much less profitable, as its earnings per share fell by 7.5% annually
  3. Underwhelming 2.9% return on capital reflects management’s difficulties in finding profitable growth opportunities

At $24.20 per share, Hewlett Packard Enterprise trades at 10.7x forward P/E. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including HPE in your portfolio.

One Large-Cap Stock to Buy:

ServiceNow (NOW)

Market Cap: $190.6 billion

Built on a single code base that processes over 4 billion workflow transactions daily, ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) provides a cloud-based platform that helps organizations automate and digitize workflows across departments, from IT and HR to customer service and security.

Why Do We Love NOW?

  1. Current remaining performance obligations (cRPO) have averaged 22.9% growth over the last year, showing it has a pipeline of unfulfilled contracts that will support revenue in the future
  2. Software platform has product-market fit given the rapid recovery of its customer acquisition costs
  3. NOW is a free cash flow machine with the flexibility to invest in growth initiatives or return capital to shareholders

ServiceNow’s stock price of $917.12 implies a valuation ratio of 13.4x forward price-to-sales. Is now a good time to buy? Find out in our full research report, it’s free.

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