Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing - David Gardner, What Rule Breakers Value
Episode Date: May 24, 2025If you want to own best-in-class companies, you need to own stocks with a high sticker price. Motley Fool Co-founder and Chief Rule Breaker, David Gardner, joined Ricky Mulvey for a conversation abou...t how he thinks about valuation. They discuss: - Palantir’s current valuation, and what investors should prepare for. - The value of paying up for “top dogs” and holding on to them for long periods of time. - Tesla’s surprising performance over the past year. Companies discussed: PLTR, MELI, TSLA, SHOP, NFLX, AMZN, NVDA, AXON, ISRG Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: David Gardner Engineer: Rick Engdah Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. The Motley Fool and its affiliates (collectively, "TMF") do not endorse, recommend, or verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements made within advertisements. TMF is not involved in the offer, sale, or solicitation of any securities advertised herein and makes no representations regarding the suitability, or risks associated with any investment opportunity presented. Investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult with legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any investment decisions. TMF assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages arising from this advertisement.l Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The rule breakers that become rule makers and yet continue to break the rules as they
lead their industry and the world forward are the greatest stocks of our lifetimes.
And I would say Amazon is a great example.
I would say NVIDIA is another great example.
I would say so is Netflix.
So by the way, our lesser known companies like Axon Enterprise or MercadoLibre, these
are companies that started out with David positioning and are now within their contexts,
the Goliath. I'm Ricky Mulvey, and that's Motley Fool co-founder and chief rule breaker David
Gardner. He joined me for a conversation on today's show about his unique view on valuation
and what really matters if you want to be an owner of industry-leading, rule-breaking companies.
And a quick note before we get started, no show on Monday.
We are off for Memorial Day.
Hope you're having a great long weekend.
So the reason I wanted to chat is, David, I've been thinking a lot about and not buying,
maybe to my detriment, a company called Palantir.
And at the time of this writing, it's got a blistering valuation, about 95 times enterprise
value to revenue. So for listeners, that is all of the equity in debt over the trailing revenue.
So the market for this company is saying, we think that revenue can grow a lot. We can,
almost to impossible standards to a normal valuation minded investor. And the reason I
wanted to talk to you is for a rule breaker, when a rule breaker sees an expensive stock,
that can actually be a good thing. So broadly speaking, to set the table,
what are the first questions that a rule breaker should ask when they see a stock
with an incredibly optimistic valuation? And I realized while we were chatting before,
I didn't welcome you onto the show. So it's also good to see you on a recorded medium.
David Gardner, thanks for being here. It is always a pleasure, Ricky,
and thanks for the invite. And I think, first of all, when you're looking at companies that
you want to invest in, and you're going to take the approach that I take, which is, by the way,
just one of many different approaches to beating the market. But I'm looking at the top dogs and
first movers in important emerging industries. That is trait number one of Rule Breaker stocks.
And there are six traits. We don't have to talk about them all, but that's the most important
one. That's why it's number one. So, Ricky, I would say, first of all, we're focused not on
all the stocks or the whole market. I, anyway, focus on the innovator in each industry. Who's
the top dog? Who's the first mover? Not just any industry, important emerging industries. That,
for me, is the way to maximize your returns as an investor. Once we're talking about those,
the rule breakers, some of the valuation received mores and expectations and things taught
start to break down. In fact, you will never buy Palantir if you're trying to find a cheap
Palantir. And I'm not just talking about Palantir itself, though I am. I'm talking about all the
other companies like Palantir that people consistently don't invest in, whether it was
Amazon in 1997, or by the way, 2017, and probably 2027. Amazon always looks expensive. Starbucks
has always looked expensive within its industry. It's just coffee. Why is it trading at this kind
of multiple? And that's going to be true industry by industry, Ricky, for the rule breakers.
so then to to double click on this what's so good about these stocks that value investors
that financial media are very quick to call that is an expensive stock and let us move on to the
next topic there are several intangibles that are going on in the innovators in each industry
that are intangible in this sense they are not counted in valuation metrics
full stop. This is a critically important insight and one that I have discovered just by thinking
about it and observing over time. I was like, why are all the best companies always trading
at premium valuations? Why was Intuitive Surgical, when I first picked it in 2005,
trading at something like 75 times earnings, and yet it's gone up more than 100 times in value
since then in the 20 succeeding years? It's been a fantastic rule breaker. Virtually every great
company from Tesla to Netflix, the list goes on. The great stocks of our time have all looked
overvalued. Therefore, people who take traditional approaches never buy them. They don't recommend
them. And so I think the intangible part is that that's not reflected on the balance sheet or
income statement. We're going to talk about that in a sec. But the tangible part of this, Ricky,
is that whether it's the CEO of the company, who is that? Whether it's the culture of the company,
what is that? Whether the company is an innovator, can it innovate its way out of a box or not?
And also, what about the brand of the company? The companies I've just mentioned in the last
minute or so are some of the great brands of our time. Apple, the greatest brand of our time,
is also the largest market cap of our time. That's a really important point that I hope
everyone is hearing and taking away. Often, the performance of a company and the quality of its
stock over time is directly correlated to its brand. But the four things I just highlighted
for you, who the CEO is, what's the culture of the company, can it innovate its way out of a box,
and what about its brand? None of those four is included anywhere in the financial statements.
And yet, what are the things that lead businesses to glory or shame? Who's running it? What the
culture is? Can they innovate? What about their brand? The promise you make to your customers
every day. So this is an incredibly important point. It's one I try to make big in my Rule
Breaker Investing book that comes out this fall. I hope it's going to be an eye-opener for a lot
of people, but we're getting to talk about it months ahead of it coming out because I've
observed this for years, Ricky, and it's such an important point. So price to EV or different
multiples, just price to sales, price to earnings, price to book value, none of these is accounting
for those four intangibles that are so very tangible to any company's success or failure.
And brand is one that Lynchian investors can look at as well. What do you perceive this brand to be
in the marketplace? How do you feel about it? How do your friends feel about it? There's some
examples we can get into. But I also think it's important to separate. There's the old saying in
investing, price is what you pay, value is what you get. And so for listeners, one way to think
about this for the meat eaters out there is steak. You know the difference between a $25 steak,
a $50 steak, and a $100 steak. And it doesn't necessarily mean that one is less of a value
than the other, depending on what your expectations are going in.
Yeah.
When I'm looking back, though, on some of the biggest winners in the full universe,
some of which you mentioned, David, Amazon, Netflix, MercadoLibre, I use wide charts,
which sometimes can mess some things up, especially for historic multiples.
These often traded above 10 times enterprise value to revenue, sometimes even 45 times
if you look at an early Amazon.
But that's a comparative value town to where Palantir is today, which is a more mature company.
It is a nosebleed valuation, even in the history of Rule Breakers. We can get to Palantir in a
sec, but you've come to this conclusion about buying so-called expensive stocks over a number
of years. As you were going through that experience, did you ever get that feeling,
these stocks are getting awfully expensive when you were developing as an investor?
I mean, I think it's natural to recognize when companies are at all-time high,
not just for their stock, but for their valuation multiples. I think that's smart. I think it's good
that you're paying attention to those things, Ricky. And I will say, for my own part, I pay
some attention to them, but not too much. Because fundamental to my approach, which, again, is not
going to be true of everybody at The Motley Fool and not going to be true of everybody listening,
but fundamental to my approach is that I'm going to be holding that stock for years.
When I buy a stock, at a dead minimum, I'm holding it for at least three years, preferably three decades.
And so what ends up mattering is not the valuation multiple that you paid for 17 or 7 years ago, which I can't even remember now.
What matters far more, and you can only see this once you play yourself forward a few decades as an investor,
and then you get to start looking back and realizing these things, you start to realize
what really matters is the impact of that company in the world. For the benefit of customers,
of course, shareholders, but their employees, their stakeholders, the companies that are winning
for everybody, not equally and all the time, but the companies that just keep winning.
And that performance of their products and services, what they're doing for our world at
large, whether they're the real company behind the electric car revolution, or the real company
behind the streaming revolution, or NVIDIA, my best stock pick for Motley Fool Stock Advisor,
the company behind, as it turns out, the AI revolution, even though I bought them as a
graphics processing chip company, you start to realize the valuation is such a temporary thing.
I think most people tend to overrate the importance of valuation to the detriment
of recognizing the importance of the company's growth and maturation over time, and really
leadership and success. I often say, Ricky Mulvey, what do winners do? They keep winning.
They keep winning. That is something that's very hard for a lot of people to accept because we
tend to think what goes up must come down. Oh my gosh, look at Palantir, it's at new highs,
or look at any stock at new highs. Probably I should wait for the dip because obviously what
goes up, must come down. But the direction of the stock market is not parabolic. It's not a
cyclical up, down, up, down, up, down. Actually, it's more hyperbolic. It's sort of lower left to
upper right, not always at the same time and sometimes downward. But this is really what I
think we have to have as our mental pictures. And that's what enables me, by the way, to buy
a Palantir, which I did not 10 years ago, more like two years ago. But it's just been a phenomenal
performer. And there's more to say. So I've gone too long in this answer. But we should talk about
how sometimes stocks really are overvalued and do drop. And that's just part of being a shareholder
in them. So we can go there or anywhere else you'd like to. Can we finish up with Palantir real quick?
Because when you talk about Palantir, there are things that people should know about this company.
There is a defense contractor side. And that's something you should know about full well before
getting in. And then before our conversation, I was watching the CEO of Walgreens talking about
his use of Palantir and how it's automating 384 billion decisions in one day for the entire
enterprise of Walgreens as it can create a digital twin of the organization. And then you can go in
and decide what needs stocking where. And you think about all of the different items and
prescriptions going on at a Walgreens and just what a complex logistics operation that is for
that pharmacy and he's giving a presentation in a Palantir conference and you think, okay,
this might be a lifetime customer because once Palantir gets in and has access to all of this
company data and you're able to automate decisions and immediately create value for an organization,
yeah, they might stick with it. But still for me, I'm not quite as rule breakery as you, David.
I'm like, man, I still think trees can't grow to the sky in more than 90 times enterprise value
to revenue. I've never seen anything like that before. And that scares me off the stock.
Well, I understand. And I'm the first to say there are lots of great companies on the market.
And if Palantir, for whatever reason, doesn't fit your desire or your profile for what you'd
like to invest in, there is no compulsion that makes any of us buy any given stock.
I will say why I like companies like Palantir. But admittedly, it's up about four or five times
of value since I first bought. So it could be about to drop 50%, as indeed we saw NVIDIA do
within the last couple of years, I think more than once. So there's volatility to Rule Breaker
stocks. And for a lot of people, that's not something they're willing to accept. Watching
Netflix lose two-thirds of its value in the face of its self-inflicted gunshot wound known as
Quickster more than 10 years ago, it's not fun to watch companies lose half or more of their value
inside of one year. But this is often how these companies work. Because yes, they are premium
priced, Ricky. And so if they stumble, if they make a mistake, if they come short on earnings
or announce lowered expectations going forward, even with good results, that can quickly shave
a third off of the share price for some of these kinds of companies. And that truly is the nature,
I would say, of investing in rule breakers. Stumbles and growth stories are things you
have to watch. You mentioned Netflix and another example for them pretty recently when they,
just a few years ago, hard to remember, it was just a few years ago, but when Netflix announced
that it lost some subscribers, investors reacted very quickly to that. And this was kind of before
they really started cracking down on password sharing and really grew the ad business there.
And the stock has recovered really nicely since then, but these stumbles can happen and it can
be painful for a long period of time, David. You wanted to talk about valuation though,
because there are times where valuation really matters for the companies you're looking at.
What are you specifically talking about there? Well, I think the earlier stage a company is,
the less its valuation matters. The later stage it is, the more it matters. And yet,
I still don't think valuation matters that much overall. I think there's a perception
that in order to really be a smart, successful investor, you need to be able to value
stocks. And people ask you questions, insinuating questions, Ricky, like,
what's your sell discipline? And they'll often stare down their pince-nez at you and ask you,
what is your sell discipline? And that would be part of your understanding of valuation.
Benjamin Graham himself, over the course of his life, began to realize that valuation was not
really an edge that investors could depend on much anymore. When he first wrote, really,
when he came on the scene a century ago, the markets were so inefficient. The knowledge gap
between somebody who had a balance sheet and people who couldn't look at the balance sheet
or had to wait for the annual report to be mailed to them was substantial. Over the course of the
last century, that's largely been erased. And I would say we're living with a pretty efficient
market today, which might make it sound like I would think you shouldn't invest in stocks if
the market's so efficient. But I say both things out both sides of my mouth. At one side of my
mouth, I say the market is extremely efficient. Information is in there. It's coming in from all
sides, looking at the future and the past and where we are today. If you think you're going
to get a real edge by valuing the stock in a way that's radically different from what the market's
saying, I think you're probably fooling yourself, small f. I think Benjamin Graham would agree with
that. Out the other side of my mouth, I want everybody to know that as efficient as the
market is. The prices you're seeing right now, if you highly disagree with it, go right in and buy
or sell. You will, for one second, affect the price briefly, but there's a huge amount of money
just sitting there on the valuations you're seeing every day on the markets. Here's the problem with
the efficient market and why we win as investors, because I believe the market's only looking six
months forward. Really? Why is that? I think most managers care about what the next earnings are
going to be, and the quarter after that. This is something that I've harbored this belief
after observing for years. Obviously, a lot of people are dialed into things like CNBC or
Bloomberg, and they're so incredibly short-term. We also have algorithms. Most trading today is
done by computers, and they're trying often to make money inside of a second, literally. That's
a lot of the volume that we see on Wall Street. I submit that if you're looking six years ahead,
instead of six quarters ahead or two quarters ahead, which is where I think most of the market
is, you will actually be playing almost your own game. What you're seeing are valuations that look
in a two-quarter period as if they're too high. You wouldn't want to buy any of these rule-breaker
stocks we've talked about right now based on the next two quarters, but we're missing the five
years. And there's a great tweet that I saved from former fool Joe Magier, who was pulling it
from Bank of America. And Bank of America did a poll of institutional money managers and said,
what is your timeframe? And you can check it. This is a few years ago, but it's a Bank of
America thing. It's official. It averages to six months. The average institutional manager is
playing a six-month game, which coincidentally happens to be what I arrived at over the course
of years, just deciding what are we really doing. So the market is incredibly efficient in the very
near term, and most people are not playing the game that you and I will win, which is to buy
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DeMotoran shared on Motley Fool Money a few years ago this is known as the dean evaluation he's a
professor at New York University, a widely respected investing professor. And he went to
the Berkshire Hathaway conference a few years back and spoke to a lot of Warren Buffett acolytes
and said, who here is trying to replicate what Warren Buffett is doing and buy great companies
at cheap prices? And many of them raised their hand. He said, and how many of you are beating
the market? And then he was not invited back to speak to that group, David. And the reason is,
when you only look for cheap stocks, then you miss out on a lot of the big tech players and
market dominating companies that have come to emerge in the stock market.
But there are times where not looking at valuation can bite investors. And I'm thinking about a story
with Shopify. This is a company that I own and I'm happy about it because I just owned it a few
years back. And those who have owned it for much longer than me are much happier than I am. But
a lot of people were getting excited about the market in late 2021. And I had a friend who
bought a lot of Shopify stock, and he lost a lot of money on that. And for those who bought Shopify
at the peaks of 2021, they're still down on that at the height of a recent cycle of investing
excitement. And after that, he really didn't trust the stock market. And I didn't have a great
response for him other than, yeah, that's painful. And I don't really begrudge you for wanting to be
in index funds only. We're now at a time where the market is close to all-time highs once again.
And I want to caution newer investors, especially how investors can make the experience whenever
the next downturn comes less painful, especially if they're following the rule breaker companies
that you like to look at. Well, I would say, first of all, to that friend, keep plugging.
I mean, it sounds like this is probably not the full story, Ricky, and this is short form
audio we're doing, so we can't go deeper. We're not seeing his whole portfolio, but I would hope
he had more than one stock. To me, buying a stock and then having a bad experience with it and then
concluding that you shouldn't do that, if it's only one stock, is a real unfortunate approach.
I think everybody should start with 20 stocks. These days, good news, commissions are low to
zero, and you can buy fractional shares. With $1,000, you can have a 20-stock portfolio.
So, I don't believe anybody should determine what they think about the stock market and
investing directly in stocks based on one stock. I'm not trying to be unfair to him,
I'm sure he had others, but that's how I heard it, so that would be my initial response.
And then I would say, in terms of Shopify, it is a clear out-and-out Rule Breaker, happy
to say. Karl Thiel on our Rule Breakers team brought that stock to my attention in February
of 2016. Our cost is $2.10 for Rule Breaker members. And that includes
All of the good and bad times for Shopify, Ricky. So, Shopify is a 48-bagger for us.
But yeah, you're right. I'm not sure it's back to its all-time highs yet. And yet, I think for
a lot of us, it's not about a single point in time where you buy a stock. Ideally, you're adding
more either to that stock or your portfolio on a regular basis. And for me, dollar cost averaging
into stocks directly is the approach everybody should be taking. So, let's not make it about
the market's high or the market's low, or I'm waiting for a dip. Often I've made the joke,
dips wait for dips. That's just a fun side joke that I've made over the years. But I really think
we should all just constantly be investing every two weeks if we're wage earners and adding to the
market and the best companies that we can find. So I think smoothing out market gyrations and
not getting caught up and worrying about market cycles and simply saving and investing your whole
life is going to be such a huge win for everyone listening to us if they but play the game that way.
So David, you mentioned brand earlier and you put Tesla in that basket. And that's an interesting
one to bring up right now. A few months ago, there were a lot of people, at least on my Facebook
feed, saying, I'm shorting Tesla. And that was actually probably the worst time to either sell
or short the company. But that's still one with a very complicated future. Yes, it was a trailblazer
in electric vehicles. But I think many investors could fairly look at Tesla right now
and say that its leader, Elon Musk, has poisoned the brand for quite a lot of people.
And there are acolytes of Musk, and I don't want to dismiss that there are still fans
of the company. But for a lot of people, what car you drive is sort of a branding mechanism
for yourself. And as Tesla has become an increasingly political brand, I think there
are people in the, let's say, left and moderate that say, everywhere I drive, I don't want to
necessarily promote a political affiliation with that. And that harm to the brand may be undoable,
especially as people are making big purchases with electric cars. So I guess any reflections on
the brand of Tesla right now or what you would say to an investor who thinks, you know what?
I'm getting out of Tesla. I don't think this brand is recoverable from what's happened.
Is that a short-term-minded thinker? Is that a long-term-minded thinker? I don't know. I threw
a lot at you. I love that question. I have two responses. My first response is, I believe
everybody should be making our portfolio reflect our best vision for our future. I'm the first to
say, if somebody has feelings that strongly about Tesla, about electric cars, about the CEO,
about the brand, if they don't like it, they don't want to associate with it, I'd be the first to say,
don't buy that stock. Or if you had that stock and you just find yourself very disappointed,
I certainly have friends who've sold their Tesla, just disconsolate and just saying,
I just don't like what Elon is doing in the world. And there are a lot of other people
who don't feel that way, or really most people are pretty neutral. There are a lot of people
who just know the Tesla brand, may or may not have one, don't even really connect it with Elon Musk.
But because you and I are so much part of the news cycle, I think the markets do this to us,
We think it's so much bigger and plays so much larger in people's minds than it really does.
So I'm here to say we absolutely should be making our money reflect our best vision for our future.
If Tesla's not there for you, don't do it. For me, it is. I'm not about Elon's politics. There
are lots of people who work at Tesla who are widely minded and have lots of different thoughts.
I think that Elon is a phenomenal innovator across multiple industries. And while he's a
little bit of a crazy man. I realize I understand why people wouldn't want him to babysit their kids
or wouldn't want him to be the next president of the United States. At the same time,
let's look at facts and reality. This is a company that created a revolution. Everybody
else is still trying to catch up to the electric cars, while Tesla is going to start bringing out
robots. Robots are a bigger industry than cars. They won't be the only player, but I'm invested
because I love what the company does. I do drive a Tesla and I do so unashamedly. I don't put a
bumper sticker on the back saying, please forgive me that this is, you know, I don't like Elon.
I mean, I'm fine with people doing that. I just don't want to politicize all the things that
people want to politicize these days. And let me have a fun quiz for not just you, Ricky,
but everybody listening. Where was Tesla stock a year ago this very day with all the brand damage
that's been suffered over the course of the last six months in particular, as you might say.
Do you want to guess? You don't have to. I don't have a chart, so I'm not going to
cheat on this. I would guess, let me say $250. So the stock a year ago, the day we're recording,
this conversation is Monday, May 19th, was at $175. Today, it's just short of $350.
50. We're talking about a stock that has basically doubled in the face of what you just described as
huge headwinds and mistakes and branding problems, et cetera. And I'm not, again, a fan of some of
the things that Elon has said and done, but I think we're missing, we're possibly missing the
forest for the trees if we're getting to, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about anybody who
thinks this is a serious problem and long-term damage. I disagree. I think that listeners
hopefully heard a couple of things. One is you have to understand the other side, who's selling
whenever you're buying a stock, but also willingness to have long-term conviction and an idea and ride
out the bumps. And I appreciate you sharing that. As we move forward, rule breakers can become
rule makers. You think about companies, former rule breakers, let's say Meta and Alphabet.
These are companies now making the rules, practically owning the internet. A lot of
the Mag7 stocks can be thought about this way. And you talked about brand matters more,
innovation, ability to change the CEO when these are younger companies. But when a rule breaker
becomes a rule maker, does that change how you think about valuation for these companies?
It doesn't really. Although, again, we're talking about some companies, but not other companies. I love your pointing out that cycle of a rule breaker, the David starting out as David positioning against Goliath and then eventually becoming, as Amazon has, the Goliath.
Amazon was tiny compared to Walmart when we first recommended it. Today, it's bigger than Walmart.
And yet, not every company that goes through that process, rule breaker to rule maker,
stops growing at that point or keeps growing at that point. So I think often there's a perception
or expectation, oh yeah, once you become a rule maker, probably most of your growth is stopped
and or it's hard to turn that battleship around at this point. It's big bureaucratic kinds of
things. And no doubt, there are companies that look like that in some industries, traditionally
and at present. However, in my experience, the rule breakers that become rule makers and yet
continue to break the rules as they lead their industry and the world forward are the greatest
stocks of our lifetimes. And I would say Amazon is a great example. I would say NVIDIA is another
a great example. I would say so is Netflix. By the way, our lesser known companies like Axon
Enterprise or MercadoLibre, these are companies that started out with David positioning and are
now within their contexts, the Goliath, and they are innovating at a pace, intuitive surgical,
same thing. All of surgery may become robotic over the next 20 years. They started out as the
only one doing it. Right now, I can't see any Pepsi to their Coke as surgery continues to get
better and transform. It's not just that you stop growing when you're a rulemaker, or we need to
have a new valuation approach. It's the context of the company itself, and specifically, are they
the innovator? I'm always going to have my money on the innovators. I love to find them as early
as I can, like we did with Shopify. I'm happy to hold them through some bumps, as we have with
Shopify. Shopify looks beautifully positioned to me today over the next 20 years. We're going to
keep our investments in. Again, Ricky, I hasten to add, this is in a world where most money managers
are holding for six months, where most mutual funds sell out by December 31st of what they
owned on January 1st of that year. When investors invest in those funds or just give their money
over to the institutions, we are giving our greatest advantage away to Wall Street,
the ability to hold and let things grow over time and not be rebalanced out of it or have
short-term thinkers shifting your money out of the great companies of our time.
How many people have I met who said, yeah, I once owned Apple? Yeah, but I didn't hold.
And you could say that with a lot of the companies we've had in this conversation,
because most people are simply not investing. They are trading, which is the antithesis of
investing. And I hope what we're doing at The Motley Fool, or at least I'll say in my own
little corner with the rule breaker part of The Motley Fool. We are holding for at least three
years, preferably three decades, and not any company. We are specifically focused on the
rule breakers and the innovators. I hope that wasn't too long an answer, but I'm just having
fun because I think this is such a profound insight. It's easy to say it's another thing
to actually do, but I know many of the people listening to us as Motley Fool members have done
this over the course of five or 15 or 25 years along with us because I get emails from them
saying, guys, thanks. I just took early retirement because I've bought and held NVIDIA because you
guys did through some thick and some thin. That to me is how to invest.
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