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 Mid-Cap Stock for Long-Term Investors and 2 We Ignore

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Mid-cap stocks often strike the right balance between having proven business models and market opportunities that can support $100 billion corporations. However, they face intense competition from scaled industry giants and can be disrupted by new innovative players vying for a slice of the pie.

Luckily for you, our mission at StockStory is to help you make money and avoid losses by sorting the winners from the losers. Keeping that in mind, here is one mid-cap stock with huge upside potential and two that may have trouble.

Two Mid-Cap Stocks to Sell:

Service International (SCI)

Market Cap: $10.94 billion

Founded in 1962, Service International (NYSE: SCI) is a leading provider of death care products and services in North America.

Why Does SCI Fall Short?

  1. Performance surrounding its funeral services performed has lagged its peers
  2. Anticipated sales growth of 3% for the next year implies demand will be shaky
  3. Shrinking returns on capital from an already weak position reveal that neither previous nor ongoing investments are yielding the desired results

At $78.02 per share, Service International trades at 19.8x forward P/E. If you’re considering SCI for your portfolio, see our FREE research report to learn more.

Flex (FLEX)

Market Cap: $20.15 billion

Originally known as Flextronics until its 2016 rebranding, Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) is a global manufacturing partner that designs, engineers, and builds products for companies across industries from medical devices to solar trackers.

Why Do We Think Twice About FLEX?

  1. Customers postponed purchases of its products and services this cycle as its revenue declined by 4.2% annually over the last two years
  2. Estimated sales growth of 2.8% for the next 12 months is soft and implies weaker demand
  3. Ability to fund investments or reward shareholders with increased buybacks or dividends is restricted by its weak free cash flow margin of 2.7% for the last five years

Flex’s stock price of $53 implies a valuation ratio of 12.5x forward EV-to-EBITDA. To fully understand why you should be careful with FLEX, check out our full research report (it’s free).

One Mid-Cap Stock to Buy:

Super Micro (SMCI)

Market Cap: $23.83 billion

Founded in Silicon Valley in 1993 and known for its modular "building block" approach to server design, Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) designs and manufactures high-performance, energy-efficient server and storage systems for data centers, cloud computing, AI, and edge computing applications.

Why Is SMCI a Good Business?

  1. Annual revenue growth of 75.6% over the past two years was outstanding, reflecting market share gains this cycle
  2. Massive revenue base of $21.97 billion makes it a well-known name that influences purchasing decisions
  3. Free cash flow flipped to positive over the last five years, indicating the company has achieved financial self-sustainability

Super Micro is trading at $40.08 per share, or 14.4x forward P/E. Is now the right time to buy? Find out in our full research report, it’s free.

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