(NYSE: CAE) (TSX: CAE) - CAE Inc. (CAE or the Company) today reported its financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2025.

Consolidated results

First quarter fiscal 2026 revenue was $1,098.6 million, compared to $1,072.5 million in the first quarter last year. First quarter EPS was $0.18 compared to $0.15 last year. Adjusted EPS in the first quarter was $0.21, stable compared to last year.

Civil Aviation (Civil)

The Civil book-to-sales ratio(1) was 0.84 times for the quarter and 1.27 times for the last 12 months. The Civil adjusted backlog at the end of the quarter was $8.4 billion.

Defense and Security (Defense)

First quarter Defense revenue was $490.9 million vs. $484.9 million in the first quarter last year. Operating income was $34.4 million (7.0% of revenue) compared to $18.8 million (3.9% of revenue) in the same quarter last year. Adjusted segment operating income was also $40.2 million (8.2% of revenue), compared to $27.8 million (5.7% of revenue) in the first quarter last year.

Additional financial highlights

Net finance expense this quarter was $54.6 million, down from $56.5 million in the previous quarter and up from $49.5 million in the first quarter last year. The year-over-year increase was mainly due to higher finance expense on lease liabilities in support of training network expansions and additional finance expense on borrowings to finance the SIMCOM transaction in the third quarter of last year. The increase was partially offset by lower finance expense on long-term debt due to a decreased level of borrowings during the period aligned with our ongoing deleveraging undertakings.

Growth and maintenance capital expenditures(1) totaled $106.9 million this quarter.

Sustainability

In the first quarter of fiscal 2026, CAE released its FY25 Global Annual Activity and Sustainability Report, underscoring how climate action, ethical governance, and social impact are embedded in its core business strategy to enhance resilience, competitiveness, and stakeholder value. Despite a 10% increase in business activity, CAE maintained stable carbon emissionsâ??demonstrating the effectiveness of its science-based decarbonization strategy and operational efficiencies.

For information on CAE's sustainability roadmap and achievements, the report can be downloaded at https://www.cae.com/sustainability/.

Management outlook

Civil 

CAE's Civil business continues to benefit from strong and durable fundamentals in a secular growth market for aviation training solutions. A key driver of this resilience is the global regulatory requirement that pilots and crew maintain certification for each aircraft type in the active commercial and business jet fleet. Worldwide regulations consistently mandate recurrent trainingâ??typically every six monthsâ??for pilots to retain their certifications. This built-in regulatory cadence provides CAE's Civil business with a stable and recurring demand base, making it inherently less cyclical. Additional growth is driven by the ongoing need to train new pilots due to fleet expansion and retirements, as well as transition training for existing pilots moving between aircraft platforms. Business aviation training, which represents approximately half of Civil's profitability, continues to enjoy a stable demand environment, supported by flight activity that remains well above 2019 levels. At the same time, commercial aviation training continues to be impacted by persistent supply chain constraints. Aircraft Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are experiencing record backlogs in support of future growth and fleet renewal; however, new aircraft deliveries have been metered, and groundings of existing commercial aircraft have been significant. These temporary constraints continue to affect airline pilot hiring and related training activity. More recently, airlines have also adopted a more cautious approach to capacity planning amid macroeconomic uncertainty. Despite these near-term headwinds, demand is expected to strengthen over the long term as aircraft production and delivery rates improve, grounded aircraft return to service, and pilots continue to reach mandatory retirement age.

Reflecting short-term market dynamics and usual seasonality, CAE continues to anticipate a stronger second half for Civil in fiscal year 2026, supported by increased activity with airline customers in the U.S., stabilizing macroeconomic and geopolitical conditions, a gradual easing of aircraft supply chain constraints, and seasonally higher training demand. For the full year, Civil's adjusted segment operating income (aSOI) is expected to grow in the mid-single-digit percentage range, which is at the lower end of the prior outlook. Annual aSOI margin is expected to remain stable. This outlook reflects the inherent resilience of Civil's business model and incorporates a measured view of first-half performance.

Defense

Management believes CAE is exceptionally well-positioned for long-term growth and enhanced profitability in Defense, backed by an adjusted backlog exceeding $11.0 billion and a prolonged up-cycle driven by rising defence budgets across NATO and allied nationsâ??many of which are now targeting defence spending levels approaching 5% of GDP. In Canada in particular, the federal government recently announced that the country will achieve NATO's 2% of GDP defence spending target in the current fiscal year, at least five years ahead of schedule, and is now committing to a new target of 5% by 2035. Escalating geopolitical tensions, focusing militaries on peer threats, modernization, and readiness, are fueling robust demand for CAE's training and simulation solutions. A global shortage of uniformed personnel further amplifies this demand prompting armed forces to partner with CAE to sustain operational readiness.

Free cash flow

CAE's business is highly cash-generative and following a significant multiyear investment cycle, management anticipates strong free cash flow in fiscal 2026, driven by robust operating cash flows, lower investments including capital expenditures, and further optimization of non-cash working capital. This performance is expected to translate into a conversion rate of approximately 150% of adjusted net income attributable to the Company's equity holders for this fiscal yearâ??and beyond.

Finance expense and tax expense

Management expects quarterly run-rate finance expense of approximately $55 million on higher lease expense related to recently opened training centres in its global training network in support of growth and additional finance expense on borrowings to finance the SIMCOM transaction. The annual effective income tax rate is expected to be approximately 25%, considering the income expected from various jurisdictions and the implementation of global minimum tax policies.

Balanced capital allocation priorities, accretive growth investments

The Company expects total capital expenditures in fiscal 2026 to be modestly lower than fiscal 2025, which totaled $356.2 million. Most of this relates to organic growth investments in simulator capacity to be deployed to CAE's global network of aviation training centres and backed by multiyear customer contracts.

Solid financial position

A tenet of CAE's capital management priorities includes the maintenance of a solid financial position, and it expects to continue to bolster its balance sheet through ongoing deleveraging, commensurate with its investment grade profile. Having met its fiscal 2025 leverage target, CAE now expects to reach a net debt-to-adjusted EBITDA ratio of two-and-a-half times (2.5x) by fiscal year-end.

Current returns to shareholders

A NCIB was established in fiscal 2025 as part of CAE's capital management strategy and is intended to be used opportunistically over time with excess free cash flow.

Trade tariffs impact

CAE remains relatively well insulated from direct tariff impacts. Approximately 70% of the Company's revenues come from services delivered within our customers' own countries, which significantly limits exposure to cross- border trade tariffsâ??particularly for products sold into the U.S. Furthermore, CAE's flagship product, the FFS, is exempt from tariffs under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. With approximately one-third of CAE's workforce based in the U.S., a substantial operational footprint, and a significant proportion of U.S.-sourced components in its bill of materials, CAE has the operational flexibility to effectively manage residual tariff-related risk.

Caution concerning outlook

Management's outlook for fiscal 2026 and the above targets and expectations constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws, and are based on a number of assumptions, including in relation to prevailing market conditions, macroeconomic and geopolitical factors, supply chains and labor markets. Expectations are also subject to a number of risks and uncertainties and based on assumptions about customer receptivity to CAE's training solutions and operational support solutions as well as material assumptions contained in this press release, quarterly Management's Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) and in CAE's fiscal 2025 MD&A, all available on our website (www.cae.com), SEDAR+ (www.SEDARplus.ca) and EDGAR (www.sec.gov). Please see the sections below entitled: "Caution concerning forward-looking statements", "Material assumptions" and "Material risks".

Detailed information

Readers are strongly advised to view a more detailed discussion of our results by segment in the MD&A and CAE's consolidated financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, which are available on our website (www.cae.com), SEDAR+ (www.SEDARplus.ca) and EDGAR (www.sec.gov). Holders of CAE's securities may also request a printed copy of the Company's consolidated financial statements and MD&A free of charge by contacting Investor Relations (investor.relations@cae.com).

Conference call Q1 FY2026

Calin Rovinescu, Chair of the Board, Corporate Director; Marc Parent, CAE President and CEO; Matthew Bromberg, incoming CEO; Nick Leontidis, COO; Constantino Malatesta, interim CFO; and Andrew Arnovitz, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Enterprise Risk Management, will conduct an earnings conference call tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. ET. The call is intended for analysts, institutional investors and the media. Participants can listen to the conference by dialing +1-800-206-4400. The conference call will also be audio webcast live at www.cae.com.

About CAE

At CAE, we exist to make the world safer. We deliver cutting-edge training, simulation, and critical operations solutions to prepare aviation professionals and defence forces for the moments that matter. Every day, we empower pilots, cabin crew, maintenance technicians, airlines, business aviation operators, and defence and security personnel to perform at their best and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we're everywhere customers need us to be with approximately 13,000 employees at around 240 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. For nearly 80 years, CAE has been at the forefront of innovation, consistently seeking to set the standard by delivering excellence in high-fidelity flight simulators and training solutions, while embedding sustainability at the heart of everything we do. By harnessing technology and enhancing human performance, we strive to be the trusted partner in advancing safety and mission readinessâ??today and tomorrow.

Caution concerning limitations of summary earnings press release

This summary earnings press release contains limited information meant to assist the reader in assessing CAE's performance, but it is not a suitable source of information for readers who are unfamiliar with CAE and is not in any way a substitute for the Company's financial statements, notes to the financial statements, and MD&A reports.

Caution concerning forward-looking statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements about our activities, events and developments that we expect to or anticipate may occur in the future including, for example, statements about our vision, strategies, market trends and outlook, future revenues, earnings, cash flow growth, profit trends, growth capital spending, expansions and new initiatives, including initiatives that pertain to sustainability matters, financial obligations, available liquidities, expected sales, general economic and political outlook, inflation trends, prospects and trends of an industry, expected annual recurring cost savings from operational excellence programs, our management of the supply chain, estimated addressable markets, demands for CAE's products and services, our access to capital resources, our financial position, the expected accretion in various financial metrics, the expected capital returns to shareholders, our business outlook, business opportunities, objectives, development, plans, growth strategies and other strategic priorities, our competitive and leadership position in our markets, the expansion of our market shares, CAE's ability and preparedness to respond to demand for new technologies, the sustainability of our operations, our ability to retire the Legacy Contracts as expected and to manage and mitigate the risks associated therewith, the impact of the retirement of the Legacy Contracts, and other statements that are not historical facts.

Material assumptions

The forward-looking statements set out in this press release are based on certain assumptions including, without limitation: the prevailing market conditions, geopolitical instability including the rapidly evolving trade and tariff environment, the customer receptivity to our training and operational support solutions, the accuracy of our estimates of addressable markets and market opportunity, the realization of anticipated annual recurring cost savings and other intended benefits from restructuring initiatives and operational excellence programs, the ability to respond to anticipated inflationary pressures and our ability to pass along rising costs through increased prices, the actual impact to supply, production levels, and costs from global supply chain logistics challenges, the stability of foreign exchange rates, the ability to hedge exposures to fluctuations in interest rates and foreign exchange rates, the availability of borrowings to be drawn down under, and the utilization, of one or more of our senior credit agreements, our available liquidity from cash and cash equivalents, undrawn amounts on our revolving credit facility, the balance available under our receivable purchase facility, the assumption that our cash flows from operations and continued access to debt funding will be sufficient to meet financial requirements in the foreseeable future, access to expected capital resources within anticipated timeframes, no material financial, operational or competitive consequences from changes in regulations affecting our business, our ability to retain and attract new business, our ability to effectively execute and retire the remaining Legacy Contracts while managing the risks associated therewith, our ability to defend our position in the dispute with the buyer of the CAE Healthcare business, and the realization of the expected strategic, financial and other benefits of the increase of our ownership stake in SIMCOM Aviation Training in the timeframe anticipated. Air travel is a major driver for CAE's business and management relies on analysis from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to inform its assumptions about the rate and profile of growth in its key civil aviation market. Accordingly, the assumptions outlined in this press release and, consequently, the forward-looking statements based on such assumptions, may turn out to be inaccurate. For additional information, including with respect to other assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements made in this press release, refer to Section 11 "Business risk and uncertainty" of our MD&A for the year ended March 31, 2025 available on our website (www.cae.com), SEDAR+ (www.SEDARplus.ca) and EDGAR (www.sec.gov).

Material risks

Important risks that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by our forward-looking statements are set out in CAE's MD&A for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 and MD&A for the three months ended June 30, 2025, available on our website (www.cae.com), SEDAR+ (www.SEDARplus.ca) and EDGAR (www.sec.gov). Readers are cautioned that any of the disclosed risks could have a material adverse effect on our forward-looking statements. We caution that the disclosed list of risk factors is not exhaustive and other factors could also adversely affect our results.

Non-IFRS and other financial measures

This press release includes non-IFRS financial measures, non-IFRS ratios, capital management measures and supplementary financial measures. These measures are not standardized financial measures prescribed under IFRS and therefore should not be confused with, or used as an alternative for, performance measures calculated according to IFRS. Furthermore, these measures should not be compared with similarly titled measures provided or used by other issuers. Management believes that these measures provide additional insight into our operating performance and trends and facilitate comparisons across reporting periods.

Performance measures

Gross profit margin (or gross profit as a % of revenue)

Gross profit margin is a supplementary financial measure calculated by dividing our gross profit by revenue for a given period. We track it because we believe it provides an enhanced understanding of our operating performance and facilitates the comparison across reporting periods.

Liquidity and capital structure measures

Adjusted return on capital employed (ROCE)

Adjusted ROCE is a non-IFRS ratio calculated over a rolling four-quarter period by taking net income attributable to equity holders of the Company from continuing operations adjusting for net finance expense, after tax, restructuring, integration and acquisition costs, and impairments and other gains and losses arising from significant strategic transactions or specific events divided by the average capital employed from continuing operations. Impairments and other gains and losses arising from significant strategic transactions or specific events consist of the executive management transition costs (as described in Section 5.2 of the MD&A for the period ended June 30, 2025 and Section 5.6 of the MD&A for the year ended March 31, 2025), the gain on fair value remeasurement of SIMCOM (as described in Note 7 of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2025), the shareholder matters (as described in Section 5.5 of the MD&A for the year ended March 31, 2025), the impairment of goodwill (as described in Note 14 of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2024) and the impairment of technology and other non-financial assets (as described in Note 5 of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2024). We use adjusted ROCE to evaluate the profitability of our invested capital.

Growth measures

Adjusted order intake

Adjusted order intake is a supplementary financial measure that represents the expected value of orders we have received:

Supplementary non-financial information definitions

Full-flight simulators (FFSs) in CAE's network

A FFS is a full-size replica of a specific make, model and series of an aircraft cockpit, including a motion system. In our count of FFSs in the network, we generally only include FFSs that are of the highest fidelity and do not include any fixed based training devices, or other lower-level devices, as these are typically used in addition to FFSs in the same approved training programs.

Reconciliations and CalculationsReconciliation of adjusted segment operating income

Reconciliation of adjusted net income and adjusted EPS

Reconciliation of free cash flow

Reconciliation of EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, net debt-to-EBITDA and net debt-to-adjusted EBITDA

Reconciliation of capital employed and net debt

For non-IFRS and other financial measures monitored by CAE, and a reconciliation of such measures to the most directly comparable measure under IFRS, please refer to Section 9 of CAE's MD&A for the quarter ended June 30, 2025 (which is incorporated by reference into this press release) available on our website (www.cae.com), SEDAR+ (www.SEDARplus.ca) and EDGAR (www.sec.gov).

Consolidated Income Statement

Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position

Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

ABOUT CAE

At CAE, we exist to make the world safer. We deliver cutting-edge training, simulation, and critical operations solutions to prepare aviation professionals and defence forces for the moments that matter. Every day, we empower pilots, cabin crew, maintenance technicians, airlines, business aviation operators, and defence and security personnel to perform at their best and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we're everywhere customers need us to be with approximately 13,000 employees at around 240 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. For nearly 80 years, CAE has been at the forefront of innovation, consistently seeking to set the standard by delivering excellence in high-fidelity flight simulators and training solutions, while embedding sustainability at the heart of everything we do. By harnessing technology and enhancing human performance, we strive to be the trusted partner in advancing safety and mission readinessâ??today and tomorrow.

Read our FY25 Global Annual Activity and Sustainability Report

Contacts

General Media:Samantha Golinski, Vice President, Public Affairs & Global Communications+1-438-805-5856, samantha.golinski@cae.com

Investor Relations:Andrew Arnovitz, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Enterprise Risk Management+1-514-734-5760, andrew.arnovitz@cae.com

SOURCE CAE Inc.

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