DXP Enterprises, Inc.

Q4 2021 Earnings Conference Call

3/25/2022

spk05: My name is David, and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the DXP Enterprises 2021 Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question during this time, simply press the star key followed by the number 1 on your telephone keypad. If you'd like to withdraw your question, press star 1 once again. Thank you, Kent Yee, CFO. You may begin your conference.
spk02: Thank you, David, and thank you to everyone joining us today. This is Kent Yee, and welcome to DXP's Q4 2021 conference call to discuss our results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. Joining me today is our Chairman and CEO, David Little. Before we get started, I want to remind you that today's call is being webcast and recorded and includes forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. A detailed discussion of the many factors that we believe may have a material effect on our business on an ongoing basis are contained in our SEC filings. However, DXP assumes no obligation to update that information as a result of new information or future events. During this call, we may present both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures is included in our earnings press release. The press release and presentation are now available on our website at ir.dxpe.com. I will now turn the call over to David to provide his thoughts and a summary of our fiscal 2021 and fourth quarter results. David?
spk03: Good morning. Thank you, Kent. And thanks to everyone for joining us today on our 2021 fourth quarter and year-end conference call. I will begin today with some perspectives on our fourth quarter and year-end results, current industry conditions, and our position going forward. Ken will then take you through the key financial details after my remarks. After his prepared comments, we will open for Q&A. As we all know, everyone continues to navigate through COVID and COVID-related challenges for 2021. And I am proud of the courage, compassion, and commitment demonstrated by our DXP people throughout the year. There is no question 2021 was an extraordinary year. It continued to remain challenging for us, our customers, our DX people, our suppliers, and our communities. But even in an incredible dynamic market environment, DX people came together. We stayed true to our strategy, remained customer driven, and though we still have a lot of work to do, I am proud of the fact that we delivered strong results for our shareholders. DXP started physical 2021 believing financial results were not going to come easy and we were going to have to take market share where we could. The pace and magnitude of recovery would vary greatly from geography, customer type, and in markets. This largely proved to be true as the economy continued to recover from the short but deep recession that marked the pandemic's early months and days. The subsequent robust growth that followed in certain markets began to put enormous pressure on the supply chain. triggering levels of inflation not seen in decades. By year end, interest rate hikes were widely expected. Markets entered into a new uncertainty. While we don't expect physical 2022 to look like 2021, DXP's confidence is as strong as it ever has been. Our strategy is working. We continue to be customer driven experts. sourcing, providing, servicing our customers as they navigate whatever the outcome year holds. In physical 2021, we soundly executed on diversifying our end markets with a focus on water and wastewater and other industrial markets, continuing to do acquisitions, adding three great companies during the year, including Carter and Verplank, process machinery, and premier water. We executed on share repurchase program and growing organically in the second half of 2021, delivering second half organic sales growth of 13%. Our strategy has always been to combine financial strength, talent, resources, technology, and capabilities of a large company with the fast, flexible, and entrepreneurial capabilities of our local businesses to deliver superior value to our customers and our suppliers while providing better growth opportunities for our DXP people. We continue to believe in this approach and look to renew our commitment to people, processes, and resources, and technology as we scale DXP and remain focused on doubling the size of our business over the next three to five years. From a sales business day standpoint, DXP experienced continual improvement throughout the year, with Q1 averaging 3.9 million sales per day and ending Q4 averaging 4.8 million sales per business day. an improvement of 23.1% from Q1 to Q4. While we did experience some softness during the summer months, from August through the end of December, we consistently performed above our 2021 sales per day average of 4.5 million sales per day. Our fourth quarter results reflect sequential sales growth, and improvements in our end markets and industry indicators, including our PMI and our metal working indexes. Oil and gas also started to see signs of affirming, and DXP experienced sequential increases in our related backlog, and IPS experienced two sequential quarters of organic growth through Q4. Total DXP sales for Q4 were $293.1 million or $4.8 million per business day. Our profits for the quarter were impacted by a sequential decline in gross margins as well as an increase in SG&A expenses associated with auditor transition and related items, which Kent will review during his comments. However, in the midst of continued change and growth, our year-over-year earnings showed improvement and resilience as we grew diluted earnings per share 13.9% to 0.83 per share on a year-over-year basis. Thank you to our 2,841 DX people for your hard work and dedication in finishing the year as strongly as possible. It is always my pleasure to share our fourth quarter and year-end results on your behalf. In terms of cash flow and liquidity, we generated $32.7 million of free cash flow versus a record of $101 million of free cash flow in 2020, which reflects the turning of the business and investing in related working capital as the business begins to turn positive during the second half of the year. This combined with flexible capital structure plus us in a position where we could keep executing on our acquisition strategy as well as return capital to our shareholders via opportunistic share repurchases. As we discussed at the back end of 2020, acquisitions have continued to diversify our in-market exposure and position us well for a rebounding economy as we are excited about 2022 and the growth we expect to see both organically and through acquisitions as we continue to have a strong pipeline of opportunities. We're excited to have three new companies join us during the year 2021 on top of the four we completed at the end of 2020. or essentially the beginning of 2021. Carter and Verplank, Process Machinery, Premier Water have been great additions to the DXP family. That is seven acquisitions over the last 12 months, including APO Pumps and Compressors, Corporate Equipment Company, Pumping Systems Inc., and Total Equipment Company. To all of you, welcome to DXP. and we are excited to have you be a part of our DXP family, and we look forward to our successes together. DXP has continued to find ways to deliver financial results and position us well for all our stakeholders in the face of extraordinary challenges. This is evidenced by our sales growth, improved gross margins, and acquisitions and the overall teamwork of the DXP people. We continue to build our capabilities to provide complimentary set of products and services to all of our markets, which makes DXP very unique in our industry and gives us more ways to help our customer win. We also are constantly looking at reviewing opportunities where we can grow market share. We complement our strategy with a relentless drive for progress that includes business and operational initiatives which we believe will allow us to steadily improve our performance for all our stakeholders. As we go into 2022, we are excited about the opportunities ahead and the potential DXP has to continue to scale and grow within existing and new markets. Total DXP sales in fiscal 2021 were up 10.8% to $1.1 billion. Service centers led the way at $816 billion, followed by supply chain services of $158 billion, and then innovative public solutions at $140 billion. The point here is acquisitions, the diversity of in-markets, and MRO nature of service centers allowed us to remain resilient. Supply chain services remained resilient. remain impacted by oil and gas and transportation related in markets during the first half of the year. And as we moved into the second half, some of these related COVID impacts began to subside. Additionally, we started more proactive sales development that translated into further growth in supply chain services in 2022. As we discussed in the During the Q1 through Q3, we experienced the largest organic sales decline within our innovative pumping solution business segment. IPS is tied to capital budgets and predominantly in the oil and gas industry, and we have added, through acquisitions, water and wastewater treatment project work this year, which has positively impacted the results of IPS along with improvements in cost management on our traditional business. In terms of the strength in the IPS backlog, we have now had two consecutive quarters of sequential double-digit increases, and the trend looks to continue in Q1. DXP overall gross profit margins for the year were 29.5%, a 192 basis point improvement over 2020, we displayed consistent gross margin performance within IPS through the year and added accretive gross margin acquisitions. That said, IPS improved gross margins 463 basis points year over year in the midst of a significant decline in demand. Overall, DXP produced at a buy of $70.2 million. or an increase of 19.1% year-over-year. EBITDA as a percent of sales was 6.3%, or an increase of 43 basis points compared to 2020. In summary, we were pleased with our overall performance in 2021. Obviously, another extraordinary year that presented recital changes, but also highlighted or accentuated certain business trends that provided us with areas to enhance and focus upon as we go into 2022. We look to continue to drive improvement in our organic sales and marketing strategies, drive future sales growth through acquisitions, and anticipate fiscal 2022 to be a strong recovery year. Our acquisitions performed very well during 2021, contributing significantly to our sales growth and sales and adjusted EBITDA. We continue to expect a busy acquisition year in 2022. In 2021, we made great progress with an investment in a customer relations management system or CRM tool for our sales force, which will help our over 400 outside sales leaders bring increased value to our current customers and drive growth through new customers and increase share of wallets. We are very optimistic that our investment in digital tools and marketing can create significant competitive advantage for DXP. Overall, through our strategic investments and initiatives, we will remain focused on providing world-class tools, processes, trainings, and technology to deliver value to our customers and suppliers and to help our DXP people be more productive so they can better help our customers win. We will continue to use whatever medium the customer prefers and tailor our approach to their needs. DXP is always customer focused, especially in an environment we have today where listening to the customer matters. I am very proud of how our team continues to perform in this extraordinary time. As a leading distributor of highly engineered products and services, we believe DXP remains well positioned to support our customers and navigate this challenging period for the benefit of all our stakeholders. I would like to sincerely thank all of our DXP people who continue to show up to work with their passion, commitment, teamwork, and selfless service. We have a tremendous team. It is an honor to overcome the collective adversity we all experienced and deliver value for all our stakeholders. With that, I will now turn it back to Kent to review our financials and look into it.
spk02: Thank you, David, and thank you to everyone for fiscal 2021 financial results. 2021 turned out to be another unique year as we moved through the COVID-19 and experienced new and related challenges. Despite these challenges, DXP successfully navigated through the year and was able to execute and create value for all our stakeholders. Overall, DXP's fiscal 2021 financial results were good to see and reflect the following. Diversifying our end markets with strong acquisition activity, completing three acquisitions in 2021 after completing the four at the beginning of the year or on December 31st of last year. Sales improving further from the ongoing pressures of COVID-19, with sales per business day averaging 4.5 million sales per business day in 2021. Improved business segment strength with year-over-year growth in service centers and supply chain services. despite the first half of 2021 presenting two quarters of sequential growth in the IPS backlog during the back end of the year, gross margin improvement year over year, and opportunistic share repurchases returning 33.5 million in capital back to shareholders. Essentially, a great transition year and one that will position us well for 2022 and beyond. Total sales for the fourth quarter increased sequentially 1.3 percent to 293.1 million, reflecting significant improvement in sales per business day going from 4.5 million per day in sales in Q3 with 64 business days to 4.8 million sales per business day with 61 days in Q4. Additionally, this reflects impacts from supply chain shortages and sales getting pushed into 2022. Acquisitions contributed 43.5 million in sales during the quarter. Total sales for DXP for fiscal 2021 were 1.1 billion, increasing 10.8% compared to fiscal 2020. For the full year, acquisitions contributed 147.5 million in sales. Average daily sales for the fourth quarter, as I mentioned, were 4.8 million per day versus 3.8 million per day in Q4 2020. Average daily sales for fiscal 2021 were $4.5 million per day versus $4 million per day for fiscal 2020. Adjusting for acquisitions for the full year, average daily sales were $3.9 million per day. In terms of our business segments, service centers grew 23.2% year over year. Excluding acquisitions, service centers grew 6.9% year over year, followed by supply chain services growing 2.1%, And then innovative pumping solutions, excuse me, declining 25.8%. Excluding acquisitions, innovative pumping solutions declined 35.5% year-over-year. In terms of our service centers, regions within our service center business segment which experience sales growth year-over-year include California, Ohio River Valley, North Texas, and our Canadian safety services business. Key end markets driving the sales performance include food and beverage, mining, municipal, water, wastewater, specialty chemicals, as well as some COVID-related activity in Canada during the first half of the year. Supply chain services performance reflects the pullback in activity at oil and gas and transportation-related customer sites. This subsided as we moved to the second half of the year, and then the SES team turned their focus to new customer wins, which we anticipate, as David said, adding significant growth in 2022. In terms of innovative pumping solutions, we have now experienced two consecutive quarters of increase in the backlog. As I always say, we review monthly bookings and backlog and compare these data points to fiscal 2015, 2016 averages, as well as fiscal 2017 averages. Our Q4 average backlog was down 12% from the 27 average backlog and down 28% from the 2015 average backlog, but is up 22% compared to the 2016 monthly average backlog. The conclusion here is that we are now trending slightly above 2016 sales levels based upon where our backlog stands today over the next 12 months. Turning to our gross margins, DXP's total gross margins were 29.5%, 192 basis point improvement over 2020. Drivers of the improvement include acquisitions, which we were at an average gross margin of 30.2% and continued improvement in IPS on a year-over-year basis. Organic gross margins approved 436 basis points year-over-year within IPS, followed by 154 basis points improvement within service centers. Supply chain services was essentially flat year-over-year. In terms of operating income, combined, all three business segments increased 94 basis points in year-over-year business segment operating income margins versus 2020. This was driven by improvement in organic operating income margins from service centers. Total DXP operating income increased 38 basis points versus 2020 to 39.9 million. Service centers improved operating income margins 128 basis points to 98.9 million. Supply chain services operating income margins declined 70 basis points to 12 million. Innovative pumping solutions operating income margins declined 33 basis points compared to 2020, which is notable once again given the contracting market environment. Our SG&A for the full year increased $43.7 million from 2020. This increase reflects higher than normal audit and legal-related expenses associated with our auditor noise this past year, increased healthcare costs versus 2020 due to abnormally low costs incurred in 2020 when stay-at-home orders were in place, and increased insurance costs. Additionally, DXP incurred growth-related increases in SG&A, including over $775,000 associated with investing and a new CRM package, as David mentioned. Turning to EBITDA, fiscal 2021 adjusted EBITDA was $70.2 million. Adjusted EBITDA margins were 6.3%. Year-over-year EBITDA margins increased 43 basis points. We typically expect to receive greater fixed cost SG&A leverage as we grow, but given our growth was driven from acquisitions and our business declined organically 2% year-over-year, we did not experience the leverage that we will experience as we move through the cycle. This points to the creative nature of the margins with acquisitions and the opportunity to significantly improve EBITDA margins as we move to organic growth in 2022. In terms of our EPS, our net income for 2021 was 16.4 million. Our earnings per diluted share for fiscal 21 was 83 cents per share versus an adjusted 73 cents per share last year. Turning to the balance sheet and cash flow, in terms of our working capital, our working capital increased $27.1 million from the prior year to $186.2 million. As a percentage of sales, this amounted to 16.7%. This primarily reflects an 11-day increase in day sales outstanding, or what they refer to as BSO days, in investments and inventory. We are still at a point where we are in line with our historical averages or ranges in terms of investing and working capital. In terms of cash, we had $49.1 million in cash on the balance sheet at December 31st. This is a decrease of $70.3 million compared to December 31st, 2020. This reduction was the result of our acquisition activity and our share repurchase program that we announced in May of 2021. In terms of CapEx, CapEx in the fourth quarter was $3 million. CapEx in the fiscal year was $6 million or 0.5% of total sales. Compared to fiscal 2020, we are down 673,000. As a reminder, CapEx reflects our ability to control capital investment and the minimal maintenance needs of our business. During fiscal 2020, we were focused on liquidity as we established our bearings around COVID. In 2021, we maintained that discipline but also began to opportunistically invest in the business with 75% of our CapEx activity occurring in Q3 and Q4. Moving into 2022, we will continue to invest in the business as we move towards growth. Turning to free cash flow, we generated solid operating cash flow during the fourth quarter as we did during the second and third quarter. During Q4 and for fiscal 2021, we had a cash flow from operations of $14.3 million and $37.1 million respectively. For fiscal 2021, this translated into $32.8 million in free cash flow. Return on invested capital, or RRIC, for 2021 was 21%. At December 31st, our fixed charge coverage ratio was 2.7 to 1, and our secured leverage ratio was 3.7 to 1. Total debt outstanding at December 31st was 326.7 million. In terms of liquidity, we remain undrawn on our ABL and have over 180.7 million in liquidity. consisting of 49 million in cash and 131.7 under the ABL. In terms of acquisitions, we anticipate closing another acquisition by the end of Q2. This transaction will continue to diversify DXP from an end market perspective as well as further strengthen our capabilities in key geographic regions and enhance product capabilities. Our acquisition strategy continues to create value for DXP and our pipeline is as strong and is expanding in different end markets. More importantly, the talent at the company is very high, brings expertise and valuable experience to our growing company. The last item I wanted to touch briefly upon is our auditor transition plan. I'm sure many saw the announcement this morning that we have appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as our auditor for fiscal 2022. I want to first start off by publicly thanking McConnell and Jones for working with us to get our third quarter and fiscal 2021 done in a timely manner given the unusual circumstances. The team from McConnell Jones handled everything with the utmost professionalism, diligence, and candor. Frankly, it was extremely refreshing. As discussed back in November, DXP's auditor transition or bridge plan has been about the future of DXP and to align with our vision and goals for the finance and accounting function. Since 2017, we have been focused on ensuring we were building a finance and accounting team capabilities and function that would support and propel DXP into becoming a multi-billion dollar company. Progress by no means is a straight line and we are improving year over year. We are also staying nimble as we continue to grow and work with a variety of market challenges that you face. We are at that inflection point and I am excited to work with PwC and have another fresh view as we scale DXP in real time organically and through acquisitions. In summary, our priorities this year were to drive shareholder value through diversifying our end markets, continuing to execute on our acquisition program, and opportunistic share repurchases. We were successful and look forward to a stronger 2022 and beyond. I will now turn the call over for questions.
spk05: Thank you. At this time, I'd like to remind everyone, in order to ask a question, press star then the number one on your telephone keypad. We'll pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. We'll take our first question from Tommy Mall with Stevens. Your line is open.
spk06: Morning, and thanks for taking my questions. Hey, Tommy. How are you? Doing well, thanks. I wanted to start for your oil and gas customers with crude here above $100. What, if any, kind of change in appetite for spend are you seeing there? especially on the pricing side, I would assume you're probably seeing some input inflation, and obviously these customers are realizing much higher prices on their side. So do you have any kind of incremental pricing power in this environment that might be a tailwind to margins?
spk01: Yes.
spk03: Yeah, you know, first of all, let me say that that we're kind of moving ourselves away from oil and gas and yet we sell a lot of product into that marketplace and we'll continue to do so. One of the bigger opportunities for IPS though is to sell a lot of alternative fuels type projects and also carbon capture stuff and things to improves our environment, which is pretty exciting for us and pretty exciting for DXP is kind of creating a whole new market. And we're kind of expanding there. But back to your question, certainly people are spending money to produce as much as they can. Drilling is going back up, but those budgets aren't You know, they're nowhere nearly as big as they used to be, but they're still increasing. So, you know, we're seeing activity at our IPS segment, both for alternative fuels, environmental, and gathering systems and things that help produce more. So all that looks really, really good for IPS. Our costs, you say they're getting more at the wellhead for their product, and they certainly are. I'm a big fan that that's too high. It'll ultimately, somewhere along the line, it'll all even out to what's probably the right amount. But the perfect price of oil, we always talk about that. But then it's not at $100 plus, I'll just tell you that. So I'm worried about how it affects the rest of our business. But back to the oil and gas part, people costs are going up. Our suppliers are raising their prices because their people costs are going up. Steel's gone up. All the commodities have gone up. And then we pass that on, and I think the oil and gas companies expect us to pass that on. Whether or not we pass on a little bit for ourselves, that's kind of up to the individual salesperson and the people doing the quoting and stuff, but we try to. But we're just going to have a simply – that was all stated to kind of point to the fact that really our service centers did great. Supply chain services, you know, I think is going to have a good year. It keeps looking like it's going to have a good year, but the real improvement and the real detriment in 2021 was IPS and capital projects, but that's coming back, and we're expecting them to have a good year.
spk06: Thank you, David. Moving up to the total company level and just looking at your daily sales, it sounds like most of the second half of last year was quite strong. And I'm curious, you know, now we're most of the way through the first quarter here, just what kind of commentary could you offer on, I don't know if you want to go month by month or quarter to date, year to date. Is there any context you could give us on how daily sales have progressed?
spk02: Yeah. Hey, Tommy, this is Kent. What I'll do is I'll jump in here and just give you the trends as I, as I normally do. Sometimes I copy out the sales business day, but I'll, I'll just pull it forward from the Q3 average and then kind of the last five months, if you will. So for Q3, we averaged 4.5 million per day. In October, it was 4.7 million per day. In November, it was 4.6 million per day. In December, it was 5.1 million per day. January was 4.1 million per day. January is usually always a soft month, kind of coming out the chute at the beginning of the year. and then February we kicked up to $4.9 million per day. So turning in the right fashion and increasing month over month. So we like what we see. Now some of that does include acquisitions to be fair, but without getting into the detail, we're seeing the incremental increase in both sales per business day And what I'll emphasize is our backlog as well. We're seeing remarkable increases in our backlog. Now, some of that's driven by the fact that, you know, there are the supply chain issues and some sales are getting pushed out, but the net trends lead to a favorable 2022 once again.
spk06: Yep. Moving to expenses here on operating expenses. I think you called out in the prepared remarks some of the drivers in fourth quarter moving higher, one of which was auditor related. But as we move into this year, 2022, are there any factors you would point us to just if we think about where that expense line was in Q4? Any factors that would drive that higher or lower as we move through this year?
spk02: Yeah, let me... So, I mean, in terms of the answer to that question, let me just retrace a little bit, you know, some of those buckets and put some numbers around it and then kind of then specifically answer your question, if you will, kind of going into 2022. You know, in terms of our auditor noise, you know, once again, nothing that we wanted to have happen publicly, but once again, I'll just couch it with it was refreshing to kind of be able to move forward and find a firm that we could work come alongside for our growth and development. But that created an excess of a million to a million and a half dollars in 2021 that we wouldn't have normally experienced. You know, increased healthcare costs, that was another additional 2.2 million. And then in terms of increased insurance costs, another 1.1 million. And a lot of that, once again, to your point, was back end, weighted towards the back end of the year, just given a lot of things. You know, in terms of pulling forward as we go into 2022, you know, we are still in the midst of the transition. Once again, it feels a lot better. But, you know, as we transition from McConnell and Jones, because we had to have them pick up in Q3 and for the full year audit, you know, there'll still be some expenses as we close out the 10K. And then we will onboard, if you will, with Price Waterhouse. And so 2022 will probably still be elevated, probably more than likely not the same levels. as 2021, but we will have some elevated costs there. And then, you know, just in terms of SGA going forward, you know, I guess I would couch it in terms of big picture. You know, I think every company in today's environment is receiving pressures around people. You know, sometimes it gets taglined with a great resignation or just people moving from company to company. I don't think DXP is any different. And so for the value team members, we're trying to do all the right things. and retaining those and looking at compensation. And then in general, you have inflationary pressures in general to kind of meet those demands. So I think you'll see some of that as we kind of move through 2022.
spk06: Thanks, Kent. Last one from me, just on M&A. It sounds like there may be another deal you expect to close sometime in Q2. suppose you've given us all the context you can there, given it's not over the line yet, but whatever you could share just about the pipeline in general, number of opportunities you're looking at versus trend, any transformative opportunities in the pipeline or more along the tuck-in route that we've seen lately.
spk02: Yeah, no, and hey, big picture, you know, Some of those themes that are very relevant to DXP got lost, and one of those, obviously, with all the auditor noise, was acquisitions, right? We remained acquisitive seven over the last 12 months. The pipeline continues to grow. It was growing in the midst of all that. We obviously just recently closed two here already at the beginning of 2022. So Dryden and Burlingame, you know, not a lot of sales, roughly around 9 million of sales added to DXP. And then in terms of kind of one upcoming, you know, I'll call it closer to our average acquisition size, which average acquisition size is typically 25 to 35 million plus in revenue. And so we're excited with where our pipeline stands. You know, some of the dynamics in the pipeline, what you see, you know, the market's very competitive still, and so you do see multiple pressure. But we're still able to find those that are accretive to DXP and are a good fit. And they have the themes of focusing on water, wastewater, and diversity of markets. You know, we're excited to be in 2022. We're excited to kind of have that pipeline still grow and see where we end up by the end of 2022 in terms of the number of deals. But a full pipeline.
spk03: Tommy, I'd add just one thought, is that we're also in pursuit of companies that are in the service business. You know, we're trying to, you know, stay away from, we always think of ourselves as an engineering customer expert type business. And so we see that, you know, we don't want to compete with Amazon. We don't want to compete with the gragers and et cetera. So companies that are in the service business and then specifically it may seem enticing to kind of jump back on oil and gas, but we really have enough exposure in that market. And so we're looking at other industries that have a high service content.
spk01: Appreciate it, David. That's all from me. I'll turn it back. Those are all the questions today. We thank you for your participation. This concludes today's conference. You may now disconnect.
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