CAE
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CMG isn't Dye & Durham—it carries a modest net debt of \~C22M against C25M+ in operating profit, making structural insolvency a non-issue. The SaaSpocalypse argument also fails here: AI agents can disrupt workflow middleware, but they cannot rewrite 45+ years of non-linear differential equations and empirical field calibration powering CMG’s core engines (GEM, STARS), which E&Ps rely on to avoid nine-figure drilling errors. Because its total addressable market is strictly bounded by the number of petroleum reservoir engineers on Earth rather than an infinite consumer base, plowing 100% of FCF into speculative growth makes little sense, which is why CMG historically distributed cash. Compared to commoditized, high-churn LMS plays like Docebo or heavy, capital-intensive flight hardware like CAE, CMG offers 80%+ gross margin software with near-zero churn—making it an irreplaceable engineering monopoly currently priced at cyclical trough multiples due to a messy M&A integration.

CMG isn't Dye & Durham—it carries a modest net debt of \~C22M against C25M+ in operating profit, making structural insolvency a non-issue. The SaaSpocalypse argument also fails here: AI agents can disrupt workflow middleware, but they cannot rewrite 45+ years of non-linear differential equations and empirical field calibration powering CMG’s core engines (GEM, STARS), which E&Ps rely on to avoid nine-figure drilling errors. Because its total addressable market is strictly bounded by the number of petroleum reservoir engineers on Earth rather than an infinite consumer base, plowing 100% of FCF into speculative growth makes little sense, which is why CMG historically distributed cash. Compared to commoditized, high-churn LMS plays like Docebo or heavy, capital-intensive flight hardware like CAE, CMG offers 80%+ gross margin software with near-zero churn—making it an irreplaceable engineering monopoly currently priced at cyclical trough multiples due to a messy M&A integration.