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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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1 High-Flying Stock on Our Buy List and 2 We Question

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Expensive stocks often command premium valuations because the market thinks their business models are exceptional. However, the downside is that high expectations are already baked into their prices, leaving little room for error if they stumble even slightly.

Determining whether a company’s quality justifies its price causes headaches for nearly all investors, which is why we started StockStory - to help you separate the real opportunities from the speculative ones. Keeping that in mind, here is one high-flying stock with strong fundamentals and two climbing an uphill battle.

Two High-Flying Stocks to Sell:

Zillow (ZG)

Forward P/E Ratio: 42.9x

Founded by Expedia co-founders Lloyd Frink and Rich Barton, Zillow (NASDAQ: ZG) is the leading U.S. online real estate marketplace.

Why Should You Sell ZG?

  1. Products and services have few die-hard fans as sales have declined by 7.8% annually over the last five years
  2. Poor expense management has led to operating margin losses
  3. Waning returns on capital from an already weak starting point displays the inefficacy of management’s past and current investment decisions

Zillow’s stock price of $80.90 implies a valuation ratio of 42.9x forward P/E. If you’re considering ZG for your portfolio, see our FREE research report to learn more.

Latham (SWIM)

Forward P/E Ratio: 57.1x

Started as a family business, Latham (NASDAQ: SWIM) is a global designer and manufacturer of in-ground residential swimming pools and related products.

Why Does SWIM Give Us Pause?

  1. Annual revenue declines of 7.7% over the last two years indicate problems with its market positioning
  2. Capital intensity will likely ramp up in the next year as its free cash flow margin is expected to contract by 1.7 percentage points
  3. Below-average returns on capital indicate management struggled to find compelling investment opportunities

Latham is trading at $8 per share, or 57.1x forward P/E. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than SWIM.

One High-Flying Stock to Buy:

ServiceNow (NOW)

Forward P/S Ratio: 13.1x

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 Will NOW Outperform?

  1. Demand is healthy as its current remaining performance obligations (cRPO) have averaged 22.9% growth over the last year, showing it’s securing new contracts for services yet to be fulfilled
  2. Disciplined cost controls and effective management resulted in a strong trailing 12-month operating margin of 13.3%, and its profits increased over the last year as it scaled
  3. Strong free cash flow margin of 31.9% enables it to reinvest or return capital consistently

At $898.60 per share, ServiceNow trades at 13.1x forward price-to-sales. Is now the time to initiate a position? Find out in our full research report, it’s free.

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