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VITAL CHEMTECH LIMITED (VITAL)

Process Industries · Chemicals: Specialty · figures to Nov '26

Quality scoreHow the business itself ranks against its sector peers on profitability, 3-year growth and leverage. 50 is the middle of the sector.37 / 100
Profitability 33Growth 40Balance sheet 39

Share price

Closing priceAdjusted for splits and bonus issues.

₹53.25 latest close · +12.8% over the last 90 sessions

₹45₹50₹55Jul 2Jul 29Aug 24Sep 17Oct 14Nov 9 ₹45₹50₹55Jul 2Sep 4Nov 9

₹53.25 month-end · −3.2% over 12 months

₹50₹60Nov '25Jan '26Apr '26Jun '26Sep '26Nov '26 ₹50₹60Nov '25May '26Nov '26

₹53.25 month-end · −38.4% over 3 years

₹40₹60₹80Nov '23Jun '24Jan '25Sep '25Apr '26Nov '26 ₹40₹60₹80Nov '23May '25Nov '26

₹53.25 month-end · −65.3% since Nov '22

₹50₹100₹150Nov '22Sep '23Jun '24Apr '25Jan '26Nov '26 ₹50₹100₹150Nov '22Nov '24Nov '26

52-week range ₹35.40 to ₹69.40 · 1-year volatility 47.6%

Was the rally earned?

-3%share price, 1 yearRoughly flat
  • The share price was roughly flat over 1 year (-3%).
  • The share count barely moved.
Net profit growth: −26 pts. Points of the price return explained by net profit growing (or shrinking).−26 ptsNet profit growthP/E change: +22 pts. Points of the price return explained by the market paying a higher or lower P/E multiple.+22 ptsP/E changeShare price: −3%−3%Share priceNet profit growth: −26 pts. Points of the price return explained by net profit growing (or shrinking).−26ProfitP/E change: +22 pts. Points of the price return explained by the market paying a higher or lower P/E multiple.+22P/EShare price: −3%−3%Share price
Net profit growth-26 ptsNet profit fell about 23%, which lowers the price.
P/E change+22 ptsThe P/E rose from 33.1x to 41.6x, which lifts the price.
Share count change0 ptsShare count was little changed. More shares would count against the price.
-38%share price, 3 yearsEarnings-driven

Mostly earnings.

  • Per-share earnings took off 76 points, while the multiple moved less (P/E 25.7x to 41.6x).
  • The share count barely moved.
Net profit growth: −76 pts. Points of the price return explained by net profit growing (or shrinking).−76 ptsNet profit growthP/E change: +38 pts. Points of the price return explained by the market paying a higher or lower P/E multiple.+38 ptsP/E changeShare count change: −1 pts. Points of the price return explained by the share count changing. More shares count against the price.−1 ptsShare count changeShare price: −38%−38%Share priceNet profit growth: −76 pts. Points of the price return explained by net profit growing (or shrinking).−76ProfitP/E change: +38 pts. Points of the price return explained by the market paying a higher or lower P/E multiple.+38P/EShare count change: −1 pts. Points of the price return explained by the share count changing. More shares count against the price.−1SharesShare price: −38%−38%Share price
Net profit growth-76 ptsNet profit fell about 62%, which lowers the price.
P/E change+38 ptsThe P/E rose from 25.7x to 41.6x, which lifts the price.
Share count change-1 ptsShare count was little changed. More shares would count against the price.
What do "pts" mean?

"pts" are percentage points of the share price return. The parts add up to the total shown for each period. Because price = P/E × net profit ÷ share count, higher profit pushes the price up, a higher P/E pushes it up, and more shares push it down.

Example: if the price rose 34% and profit growth accounts for +58 pts while a lower P/E accounts for -24 pts, then 58 - 24 = 34. The +58 is not the profit growth rate itself: it is the part of the price move that profit growth explains.

Not shown for 5 years: earnings were negative at one end, or there is not enough history.

Net profit is trailing twelve months as reported with a 60-day lag.

Compare this with LINDE INDIA

How rough has the ride been?

Maximum drawdown-78.6%not yet recovered
1-year volatility47.6%annualised

Drawdown from peak

0%−25%−50%−75%2023202420252026−77.5% 0%−25%−50%−75%202420252026−77.5%
Largest drawdowns

-78.6% (2022-11 peak to 2026-03 low, not yet recovered)

Is it expensive against its own past and its peers?

41.6xP/E todayNear its historic high
Against its own history89th percentile
CheapestMedian 31.9xDearest

Usual range 22.4x to 41.8x since 2022-11.

Against Process Industries41.6x vs 18.1x
This company
41.6x
Sector median
18.1x

130% above the Process Industries median.

13.7x34.7x55.8x76.9xNov '22Sep '23Jul '24May '25Mar '26Nov '2613.7x34.7x55.8x76.9xNov '22Mar '24Jul '25Nov '26
P/E (this company)10th to 90th percentile of its own historyIts medianProcess Industries median

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P/B (this company)10th to 90th percentile of its own historyIts medianProcess Industries median

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P/S (this company)10th to 90th percentile of its own historyIts medianProcess Industries median
How to read this

Shaded band: 10th to 90th percentile of the company's own P/E history; dotted line: its median; orange line: sector median (companies with a positive multiple, at least 5 in the sector).

Sector figures are built from today's listed companies, so they exclude companies that are no longer listed.

All terms explained in the glossary →

How Process Industries is valued

Where does it rank among Process Industries peers?

Each cell is the company's percentile rank among its Process Industries peers (non-financial companies) that month.
Darker is better-ranked.
Rows marked ↓ are inverted (lower debt, shorter cash cycle and a lower P/E rank higher).

Where it ranks today

  • ROCE15th▼ 8 pts vs a year ago
  • Op. margin52nd
  • Revenue growth54th▼ 36 pts vs a year ago
  • EPS growth22nd
  • Debt/equity ↓33rdflat vs a year ago
  • Cash cycle ↓80th▼ 3 pts vs a year ago
  • P/E ↓18th▼ 13 pts vs a year ago
  • 12M momentum58th▲ 20 pts vs a year ago

Rank history

ROCE
Op. margin
Revenue growth
EPS growth
Debt/equity ↓
Cash cycle ↓
P/E ↓
12M momentum
Dec '21Jul '22Jan '23Jul '23Jan '24Jul '24Jan '25Jul '25Jan '26Jul '26Nov '26
Lower rank Higher rank Not enough data

Percentiles use today's listed companies in the sector and need at least 5 peers with a value; grey cells have too few.
ROE is computed from net profit and book value where the source does not report it.

The Process Industries sector page Watch it move against Process Industries in the Observatory

What is the price implying?

~21%annual earnings growth implied by the price

At a P/E of 32.0x, the price would imply about 20.8%/yr earnings growth for 10 years under the same assumptions, but it is not ranked.

Fewer than six years of annual earnings are available, which is too little to measure delivered growth.

“Implied growth” is what the current price would require under our stated assumptions, not what we expect.

What prices imply across Process Industries The market-wide Expectations lists

Key figures

Share Priceclose 9 Nov
₹53.25
P/E
41.6x
ROCE
3.0%
Market Cap
₹128 cr
Revenue (TTM)
₹147 cr
P/S
0.9x
P/B
1.3x
ROE
3.1%
Operating Margin
11.9%
Debt / Equity
0.6x
Promoter Holding
73.4%
12M Momentum
-3.2%

52-week range

₹35.40₹69.40
53% of the way from its 52-week low to its high

Price risk

1Y volatility
47.6%
Beta vs sector
1-year daily
0.58

Balance sheet & cash

Interest cover
operating profit ÷ interest
2.2x
Cash from profit, 3Y
operating cash flow ÷ net profit
5.00x
Share count, 1Y
unchanged

Are profits backed by cash?

2 of 6checks within range2 beyond a threshold
Other income reliance19%Near threshold

Other income as a share of pre-tax profit (trailing twelve months): 18.8%. Bands: below 15%, 15% to 35%, above 35%.

Tax rate—Not enough data

Not enough reported data to compute this.

Cash conversion6.25xWithin range

Operating cash flow divided by net profit over the last three fiscal years: 6.25x (cash from operations ₹25 cr, net profit ₹4 cr). Bands: 0.8x and above, 0.5x to 0.8x, below 0.5x.

Free cash flow0 of 5 yrsBeyond threshold

Fiscal years with positive free cash flow in the last 5: 0. Bands: at least 80% of years, 40% to 80%, below 40%.

Receivable days vs history-5 daysWithin range

Debtor days are below the median of the previous three fiscal years by 5 days (115 vs 120). Bands: under 15 days, 15 to 45, over 45.

Capital work in progress74% of fixed assetsBeyond threshold

Capital work-in-progress is 74% of fixed assets. Bands: not rising or up to 30%; rising for three years and above 30%; rising and above 60%.

Payable days+74 days / 2 yrsNear threshold

Days payable changed by +74 over two years. Bands: rise of up to 30 days; more than 30 days.

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How to read this

Each check is a named rule with fixed thresholds, not a score. Annual statements are the latest restated figures, so a past year may differ from what was originally reported.

All terms explained in the glossary →

Who has been buying and selling?

  • Over 3 years, FIIs added 0.8 pts; DIIs trimmed 0.7 pts.
  • The number of shareholders fell from 2,284 to 2,098 (-8%) between Dec 2022 and Jun 2026.

Holdings, Jun '26

How each group changed

GroupDec '22Jun '26Change
Promoters73.3%73.4%+0.2 pts
FIIs6.5%1.6%-4.9 pts
DIIs4.1%0.3%-3.9 pts
Public and others16.1%24.7%+8.6 pts

Number of shareholders

2,098shareholders-8% since Dec '22
2k2k2k2k Dec '22Sep '23Sep '24Mar '26Jun '26
Dec '22: 2,284
Mar '23: 1,879
Sep '23: 2,276
Mar '24: 2,320
Sep '24: 2,432
Mar '25: 2,142
Mar '26: 2,023
Jun '26: 2,098
2k2k2k2k Dec '22Mar '24Mar '26Jun '26
Dec '22: 2,284
Mar '23: 1,879
Sep '23: 2,276
Mar '24: 2,320
Sep '24: 2,432
Mar '25: 2,142
Mar '26: 2,023
Jun '26: 2,098

Quarterly shareholding as reported, labelled by the quarter it covers (it becomes visible about two months later).
Shareholder counts are only available for recent quarters.

This quarter's smart-money board

What happened next to similar setups

+7.1%typical 12-month return vs the marketNot meaningfully different from the base rate
  • We found 50 past situations where a non-financial company looked like VITAL CHEMTECH LIMITED today on valuation, return on capital, margins, debt, growth, price momentum, size and volatility.
  • Over the following 12 months the middle half of them returned −24% to +41% vs the market, against −3% for all non-financial companies in the same months.
  • The gap against the base rate (+9.8%, 80% range −3.2% to +17.0%) is within what chance and overlapping periods produce.

Where the 50 outcomes landed

−100%−50%0%+50%+100%
AMBICAAGAR · Aug 2023: −44.7% vs market
ASAHISONG · May 2025: −43.3% vs market
DUCON · Aug 2024: −43.1% vs market
VIPCLOTHNG · Oct 2023: −40.9% vs market
TOKYOPLAST · Jul 2025: −40.6% vs market
DYNPRO · Dec 2024: −38.7% vs market
GENUSPAPER · Nov 2024: −38.2% vs market
KANORICHEM · Feb 2023: −32.7% vs market
OAL · Sep 2024: −28.6% vs market
GRPLTD · Mar 2020: −27.8% vs market
SUNDRMBRAK · Jun 2021: −26.4% vs market
EXXARO · Sep 2025: −25.8% vs market
AIROLAM · Aug 2025: −24.4% vs market
MURUDCERA · Aug 2024: −23.1% vs market
KHADIM · Nov 2023: −23.0% vs market
WIPL · Mar 2020: −22.4% vs market
LORDSCHLO · Jun 2025: −14.7% vs market
MANORG · Aug 2025: −12.3% vs market
ORIENTCER · Jul 2025: −8.9% vs market
SHEMAROO · Aug 2022: −7.1% vs market
SHIVATEX · May 2021: −4.9% vs market
VASCONEQ · Feb 2020: −3.7% vs market
ZIMLAB · Jul 2025: −2.5% vs market
MEGASTAR · May 2025: +6.4% vs market
ALICON · Jun 2022: +6.6% vs market
ELGIRUBCO · Feb 2024: +7.5% vs market
RUCHIRA · May 2022: +10.5% vs market
ALKALI · Mar 2020: +10.7% vs market
PPAP · Aug 2025: +11.7% vs market
KAMDHENU · May 2021: +16.6% vs market
RICOAUTO · Sep 2022: +24.3% vs market
AROGRANITE · Dec 2020: +24.8% vs market
PIONEEREMB · Mar 2020: +28.5% vs market
BYKE · Dec 2023: +32.3% vs market
NIPPOBATRY · Nov 2022: +33.2% vs market
SURANASOL · Nov 2023: +37.5% vs market
RKDL · Jul 2020: +38.0% vs market
SANGHIIND · Jan 2023: +41.7% vs market
ROHLTD · May 2021: +45.5% vs market
SCHAND · Jun 2022: +48.9% vs market
BALPHARMA · Apr 2020: +65.9% vs market
SAMBHAAV · Nov 2024: +66.7% vs market
NELCAST · Nov 2022: +73.9% vs market
SOMICONVEY · Apr 2023: +109.7% vs market
SALONA · May 2021: +111.7% vs market
ARTEMISMED · Nov 2021: +115.1% vs market
PREMEXPLN · Jul 2022: +180.0% vs market
HPL · Aug 2022: +181.9% vs market
PARACABLES · Sep 2022: +202.2% vs market
SKMEGGPROD · Oct 2022: +264.0% vs market
Similar setups +7.1%All companies −2.7%← worse than the marketbetter than the market →

Each dot is one past situation (hover or tap for details) · Solid dots are the closest matches, listed below · Shaded is the middle half of all companies in the same months · 7 beyond the range shown, drawn at the edge

Similar setups' median
+7.1%
All companies' median
−2.7%
Beat the market
54% vs 47%

50 past situations · 50 companies · 32 months · 2020–2025

The closest matches

CompanyWhenP/EROCE12M mom.DrawdownNext 12 months
SHEMAROO
Consumer Services
Aug 2022 70x4% +22%−20% −7%
DYNPRO
Consumer Non-Durables
Dec 2024 41x5% +36%−15% −39%
EXXARO
Producer Manufacturing
Sep 2025 68x4% −10%−29% −26%
AIROLAM
Non-Energy Minerals
Aug 2025 59x7% −18%−25% −24%
SURANASOL
Electronic Technology
Nov 2023 53x— +19%−6% +38%
Show the other 3 matches
CompanyWhenP/EROCE12M mom.DrawdownNext 12 months
PPAP
Producer Manufacturing
Aug 2025 44x6% 0%−17% +12%
SKMEGGPROD
Process Industries
Oct 2022 38x7% +39%−12% +264%
TOKYOPLAST
Producer Manufacturing
Jul 2025 87x5% +3%−20% −41%
How reliable is this?

Matched on P/E, P/S, ROCE, operating margin, debt/equity, interest cover, revenue growth, 12-month momentum, drawdown from 12-month high, size and volatility. Closest on: interest cover, drawdown from 12-month high and 12-month momentum. One match per company and at most 7 from any one month.

Independent periods: the matches fall in 6 distinct 12-month windows. Matches from nearby months share the same market conditions, so fewer windows means less evidence.

How this is built

This is history, not a forecast. These are past situations where other companies had broadly similar reported numbers and price trends. What happened to them does not tell you what will happen to VITAL CHEMTECH LIMITED. The comparison covers only 2020–2025, a single market period, and only companies still listed today. Companies that were delisted or went bankrupt are missing, which makes past outcomes look better than they were. Returns exclude dividends and are measured against an ApnaFunda-built index, not an official benchmark. Fundamentals are matched on a 60-day assumed reporting lag, not actual announcement dates. Its historical skill has not yet been measured. Past patterns may not repeat.

Methodology

How historical analogs are built

Data as of 2026-11-09. Outcome pool: Jan 2020 to Oct 2025.

For every company we look at the situation it is in today (valuation, return on capital, margins, debt, growth, 12-month price momentum, drawdown, size and volatility) and find past company-months that looked most like it. We then show what happened to those past situations over the following 12 months, measured against the ApnaFunda All index and against the base rate. It describes history. It does not predict anything.

What is compared

FeatureWeightNon-financialFinancial
P/E1yesyes
P/S1yes—
P/B1—yes
ROCE1yes—
operating margin1yes—
ROE1—yes
debt/equity0.75yes—
interest cover0.5yes—
revenue growth0.75yesyes
12-month momentum1yesyes
drawdown from 12-month high0.75yesyes
size0.75yesyes
volatility0.5yesyes

Weights were set by judgement before any outcome was looked at and are never tuned on results. Loss-making companies (negative P/E or net profit) are only matched with other loss-making companies. Banks, NBFCs and insurers are compared only with each other and use a different feature set. Every feature is converted, month by month, to its rank among companies in the same pool in that month, so a P/E of 30 in a hot market and a P/E of 22 in a cold one can match if both were equally expensive for their time. Only that month's data is used.

How closeness and the sample are defined

Distance is the weighted root-mean-square gap between the standardised features both companies have. A match needs at least 70% of the query's feature weight, a distance of at most 0.9, and 30 matches at minimum to be shown. We keep up to 50 matches with these exclusions: never the company itself, one match per company (its closest month), and at most 7 from any one calendar month so a single market episode cannot dominate.

Base rate

The base rate is the distribution of 12-month returns, relative to the market, of every eligible company-month in the same pool, with each month weighted to match the months the analogs came from. It answers: how did a random company do in these same months? Because matches from nearby months share the same market conditions, we also report the number of distinct 12-month windows behind a result, and a bootstrap that resamples months decides whether the analog median differs from the base rate at all. "Not meaningfully different" is the usual outcome and the page copy is written for it.

Limits you should know

  • One market period. The outcome pool covers 2020–2025 only (70 months), including the 2020 crash and the 2020–21 rally.
  • Survivorship. Only companies listed today are included. Delisted and bankrupt companies are missing, which flatters past outcomes, particularly for distressed-looking setups.
  • Price return only. Dividends are excluded, and the benchmark is an ApnaFunda market-cap-weighted index of the same listed companies, not an official index.
  • Reporting lag. Fundamentals are matched on an assumed 60-day lag after the quarter end, not on real announcement dates.
  • Pools: non-financial: 98,395 company-months from 2019 companies; financial: 5,659 company-months from 108 companies. 2349 companies currently have a result; the rest are suppressed because too few comparable situations exist.

Does it work? A walk-forward check

The walk-forward check has not been run for this build, so skill is shown as not yet measured.

Disclaimer

This is history, not a forecast. These are past situations where other companies had broadly similar reported numbers and price trends. What happened to them does not tell you what will happen to any company shown. The comparison covers only 2020–2025, a single market period, and only companies still listed today. Companies that were delisted or went bankrupt are missing, which makes past outcomes look better than they were. Returns exclude dividends and are measured against an ApnaFunda-built index, not an official benchmark. Fundamentals are matched on a 60-day assumed reporting lag, not actual announcement dates. Its historical skill has not yet been measured. Past patterns may not repeat.

What changed?

13 events since Jun '23

  1. NovValuationP/E crossed above the 90th percentile of its own history to date (41.6x).
  2. SepResultsRevenue (TTM) reached a new high of ₹147 cr.
  3. AprValuationP/E crossed above the 90th percentile of its own history to date (36.4x).
  4. MarPriceFell 79% from the Nov 2022 peak to the Mar 2026 low.
  5. JunResultsEPS (TTM) turned positive.
  6. JunResultsEPS (TTM) turned negative.
  7. JunPeer rankSlipped to the bottom quartile of Process Industries on ROCE (from the 2nd quartile).
  8. JunDividendDividend payout cut from 15% to -92% of profit.
Show 5 earlier events
  1. NovDebtDebt / equity halved over 12 months to 0.32x.
  2. NovSharesShare count is up 200.0% over 12 months.
  3. JunInstitutionsFII + DII holding fell 5.2 pts over 1 quarter to 5.4%.
  4. JunDebtDebt / equity fell below 1.0x (0.32x).
  5. JunDividendStarted paying a dividend (payout 15% of profit).

Events are generated from the data by fixed rules.
The month shown is when the change became visible in the reported figures, assuming a 60-day lag after each quarter end; it is not an announcement date.

Where price and fundamentals disagree, market-wide Rewind the whole market to any month

Monthly history49 months · 2022-11 to 2026-11
MonthP/ERevenue (TTM)ROEROCEDebt / Equity
2026-1141.6x₹147 cr3.1%3.0%0.6x
2026-1039.1x₹147 cr3.1%3.0%0.6x
2026-0942.1x₹147 cr3.1%3.0%0.6x
2026-0876.9x₹131 cr1.7%3.0%0.6x
2026-0768.8x₹131 cr1.7%3.0%0.6x
2026-0675.2x₹131 cr1.7%3.0%0.6x
2026-0533.0x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2026-0436.4x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2026-0325.9x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2026-0230.3x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2026-0131.9x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2025-1235.4x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2025-1133.1x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2025-1036.9x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2025-0936.1x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2025-0834.6x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2025-0733.1x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2025-0637.8x₹134 cr4.0%6.0%0.7x
2025-05—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2025-04—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2025-03—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2025-02—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2025-01—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2024-12—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2024-11—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2024-10—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2024-09—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2024-08—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2024-07—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2024-06—₹98 cr-1.5%0.0%0.3x
2024-0523.2x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2024-0427.8x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2024-0321.1x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2024-0224.5x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2024-0125.3x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2023-1227.8x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2023-1125.7x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2023-1027.7x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2023-0929.2x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2023-0833.0x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2023-0730.6x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2023-0632.6x₹117 cr8.9%15.0%0.3x
2023-0523.7x₹58 cr53.3%—2.4x
2023-0420.2x₹58 cr53.3%—2.4x
2023-0316.4x₹58 cr53.3%—2.4x
2023-0219.8x₹58 cr53.3%—2.4x
2023-0123.2x₹58 cr53.3%—2.4x
2022-1227.3x₹58 cr53.3%—2.4x
2022-1132.7x₹58 cr53.3%—2.4x

Methodology and data notes

Methodology

Methodology and data notes

All figures come from public exchange prices and screener.in financial statements. Quarterly and annual results are shown from 60 days after the period end, so a month never uses a result before it would plausibly have been published. Statements are the latest versions, which may include later restatements.

Sector medians, percentiles and indices use today's listed companies in the sector (survivorship bias). Prices are adjusted for splits and bonus issues; around a corporate action the fundamentals may lag the price by up to a month, and affected sections are hidden.

The return decomposition uses price = P/E × net profit ÷ share count. The reverse DCF uses a fixed 12% cost of equity, a 10-year horizon and a 15x terminal P/E, and is an illustration only. Events, flags and twins follow fixed rules and thresholds described next to each section.

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