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I made a bet on DASTY because Dassault will find many subscribers for its $99/year Standard DraftSight 2D and $499/year DraftSight 3D CAD software product.ĭASTY is a great-long term investment. Different market segments means Autodesk will find many subscribers for its $1,610/year AutoCAD 2020. My ADSK position helps me benefit from cash-rich professionals/companies that are adamant in their loyalty to AutoCAD. Paying $99/year for DraftSight is more profitable than using the $400/year AutoCAD LT. Hands-on experience convinced me that DraftSight was a great free alternative to Autodesk's AutoCAD LT. I correctly suggested last year that Dassault should really monetize this free software product that made many people stop using the $400/year AutoCAD LT. I took a position on Dassault Systèmes because of its announcement that it will stop releasing/maintaining/operating free DraftSight versions. Making excellent, feature-rich products notably more affordable (than rival products) makes it easier to compete against a more popular brand like AutoCAD. Consequently, DASTY's price can rise (5% or more from) a future annual net income that could be 8% higher going forward.ĭASTY was right to undercut the subscription price tags of Autodesk's AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD 2020. Using my 60% net margin, DraftSight has the potential to add more than $53.4 million in additional net income for Dassault.Ī subscription-only DraftSight CAD software suite can therefore probably add 8% more to DASTY's annual net income of $645.43 million. Renting out a software that's already been well-developed (DraftSight was available since 2011) is not going to be costly to maintain/update. My guesstimate of $89 million/year likely comes with a 60% net income margin. My total guesstimate future contribution of subscription-only DraftSight is more than $89 million/year. The premium version of DraftSight can add up to $49.9 million.

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Another 100k high-income professionals customers can probably afford the $499/year DraftSight Premium (which offers full 3D design and cloud collaboration) or the $399/year Enterprise plan. This could deliver potential new revenue of $39.6 million/year. Going forward, I guesstimate that there can be 100k to 400k potential subscribers of the $99/month DraftSight standard plan. DraftSight remains a very affordable product even for people living/working in developing countries. The top Filipino draftsmen can earn up to $12.4k/year. The Filipino architectural draftsmen have average salaries of $4,780/year. Most DraftSight free users can afford to pay $99/year.

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SketchUp Pro is another emerging challenger to AutoCAD.

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Dassault's pricing is also cheaper than SketchUp Pro's professional annual subscription fees. The DraftSight 2D and DraftSight Premium 3D annual subscription fees are still notably lower than Autodesk's monthly/annual plans. I did not find substantial online whining against Dassault's decision to stop releasing/maintaining a free DraftSight. The 2018 and older versions of DraftSight will also cease to work by December 31, 2019. There is no free version of the new DraftSight 2019. The Potential Economic BenefitĭraftSight 2019 is Dassault Systèmes' new subscription-only 2D/3D CAD product. Dassault's asking price is still much cheaper than the $400/year AutoCAD LT. There are Filipino companies that are now paying $99/year for DraftSight 2019. This margin decline could probably reverse after free version users of DraftSight start paying $99/month. However, over the last five years, its net income margin went down from 20.56% (in June 2014) to 18.41% this year. Going forward, the company's decision to stop giving away a free but powerful CAD software products can improve its net margins. DASTY now touts a 30% YTD return of 30.32%. I concluded DASTY can disrupt Autodesk's ( ADSK) architecture and BIM (Building Information Modeling) Computer Aided Design (CAD) software business. I argued last year that Dassault Systèmes ( OTCPK:DASTY) was a buy.

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Define stockpile stewardship and its purpose

The requirement of lawful and ethical conduct ensures minimum standards of corporate social compliance. The basic objective of sustainable profitability recognizes that the purpose of for-profit corporations is to create value for investors. This conception of purpose is broad enough to apply to every business entity but at the same time supplies clear principles for action and engagement. The purpose of a corporation is to conduct a lawful, ethical, profitable and sustainable business in order to create value over the long-term, which requires consideration of the stakeholders that are critical to its success (shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, creditors and communities), as determined by the corporation and the board of directors using its business judgment and with regular engagement with shareholders, who are essential partners in supporting the corporation’s pursuit of this mission. These imperatives lead us to a simple formulation of corporate purpose: The roadmap for this shared understanding is elaborated in The New Paradigm: A Roadmap for an Implied Corporate Governance Partnership Between Corporations and Investors to Achieve Sustainable Long-Term Investment and Growth, which we developed for the World Economic Forum in 2016. We continue to advise corporations and their boards that they may exercise their business judgment to manage for the benefit of all stakeholders over the long term.Īs the pandemic disrupts settled expectations and provokes fresh perspectives, we believe it is critical to the vitality of our economic system for corporations-and the asset managers and investors who hold their shares-to recognize that ESG and stakeholder purpose are necessary elements of sustainable business success, and to engage on a regular basis to rationalize their views as to governance and stewardship. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the inequality in our society that, in considerable measure, is attributable to maximizing shareholder value at the expense of employees and communities.įor our part, we have supported stakeholder governance for over 40 years-first, to empower boards of directors to reject opportunistic takeover bids by corporate raiders, and later to combat short-termism and ensure that directors maintain the flexibility to invest for long-term growth and innovation. On the other hand, the Council of Institutional Investors, some leading economists and law professors, and some activist hedge funds and other active investors continue to advocate a narrow scope of corporate purpose that is focused exclusively on maximizing shareholder value. Each of the major US-based index funds has also expressed their views about the purpose of the corporations in which they invest, which, considered collectively, can be summarized as the pursuit of sustainable business strategies that take into account ESG factors in order to drive long-term value creation. The Business Roundtable has articulated a fundamental commitment of corporations to deliver value to all stakeholders, each of whom is essential to the corporation’s success. The British Academy’s Future of the Corporation Project, led by Colin Mayer, suggests that the purpose of the corporation is to provide profitable solutions to problems of people and planet, while not causing harm. The question has elicited an immense range of proposed answers. The growing view that corporations should take into account environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in running their businesses, and resistance from those who believe that companies should be managed solely to maximize share price, has intensified the focus on the more fundamental question of corporate governance: what is the purpose of the corporation?