Q4 2022 Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida Earnings Call
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Speaker 5: fourth quarter and full year 2022 earnings conference call. My name is Malika and I will be your operator for today. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we'll conduct a question and answer session. At that time, if you have a question, please press the one followed by the four on your telephone.
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Speaker 8: Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to Chuck Schafer, Chairman and CEO of Seacoast Bank. Mr. Schafer, you may now begin.
Speaker 9: Thank you all for joining us this morning. As we provide our comments, we'll reference the fourth quarter and full year 2022 earnings slide deck, which you can find at secosbanking.com.
Speaker 10: I'm joined today by Tracy Dexter, Chief Financial Officer, and Michael Young, Treasurer and Director of Investor Relations.
Speaker 11: Looking back at 2022, we made remarkable progress in expanding the franchise throughout Florida.
Speaker 12: Through acquisitions and new market launches, we strengthened our competitive position across the state and across the 10 billion in assets threshold.
Speaker 13: We started the year with the completion of the Sable Palm Bank and Florida Business Bank of Florida transactions.
Speaker 14: putting us in the desirable Sarasota market and continuing our growth in Brevard County.
Speaker 15: Also in the first quarter, we entered Naples and Jacksonville with the Novo teams, resulting in better than expected customer growth in both markets over the last 12 months.
Speaker 16: In early October , we completed the acquisition of Drummond Bank, expanding our presence in North Florida.
Speaker 17: including Ocala and Gainesville, and added an exceptional CNI team covering both markets.
Speaker 18: Also in October , we expanded our franchise into the dynamic Miami-Dade County market with the Apollo acquisition.
Speaker 19: And during the third quarter, we announced the addition of Professional Bank, expanding our reach in South Florida even further.
Speaker 20: Moreover, in early 2022, we continued our focus on delivering better digital experiences to our customers.
Speaker 21: completing a significant digital conversion adding Zelle, budgeting tools, count aggregation, digital onboarding, Spanish language, and several other digital customer experience improvements.
Speaker 22: We enhanced our commercial banking team in 2022 with a transformative year of recruiting well-seasoned commercial bankers, treasury officers, and credit officers throughout Florida.
Speaker 23: meaningfully increasing productivity over the prior year.
Speaker 24: Our wealth team also had an outstanding year, adding $425 million to bring assets under management to near $1.4 billion a year end.
Speaker 25: Throughout the year, we made investments across all of our operational areas in technology and talent, building resilience and scalability as Seacos transitions to a midsize bank.
Speaker 26: Seaco's had an exceptional 2022, setting ourselves apart as Florida's leading community bank.
Speaker 27: Turning to our financial results, the team finished the year with excellent performance. We materially expanded our net interest margin during the fourth quarter, increasing 69 basis points from the prior quarter, with loan yields rising 84 basis points.
Speaker 28: At the same time, the cost of deposits increased only 12 basis points.
Speaker 29: This represents an impressive cycle-to-date beta of less than 5%.
Speaker 30: We believe the strength of our relationship-focused lending model.
Speaker 31: granular deposit franchise.
Speaker 32: is finally becoming more evident during a period of higher interest rates versus other more transactional wholesale rapid growth business models.
We generated $67 million in adjusted fourth quarter pre-tax pre-provision earnings, an increase of $17.7 million from the prior quarter, while achieving a 52% efficiency ratio.
Our fourth quarter adjusted pre-tax, pre-provision, return on tangible assets, improved to 2.28%.
and our adjusted return on tangible equity improved to 15%.
up from 12.5%.
Seacoast continues to operate from a position of strength with capital allowance ratios at the top of our peer group.
We ended the quarter with a TCE ratio of 9.1%.
and an ACL coverage ratio of 1.40%.
and considering the loss absorption included in the purchase accounting marks, the company's backstop is a 2.60% coverage rate.
Additionally, should a downturn materialize, Florida has the potential to outperform the rest of the country given the wealth accumulation and population growth over the last few years. Florida has exceeded every state in the nation in attracting affluent, wealthy individuals and corporations, adding materially to the state's GDP and further bolstering the state's economic drivers.
Our credit metrics remain outstanding and we continue to be a disciplined, conservative lender focused on building a carefully underwritten and diversified portfolio by nurturing full client relationships that bring low-cost funding.
And as a reminder, our portfolio has been built over the long term with a consistent growth rate while driving diversification by product type, segment, and vintage.
A final thought, considering the continued economic strength of Florida, our carefully underwritten credit portfolio with low CRE&C and DEED concentrations.
peer leading capital levels and peer leading capital levels, we believe we have a very strong balance sheet that can weather any challenges ahead.
Further, such strengths should provide optionality to be offensive in a potentially more volatile economic environment, including opportunistic market share gains, organic growth, and acquisition opportunities.
I'll now turn the call over to Tracy.
Thank you, Chip. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone.
Directing your attention to fourth quarter results, beginning with the highlights on slide five.
The net interest margin expanded 69 basis points to 4.36 percent and on a core basis expanded 43 basis points to 4.01 percent.
loan originations, in combination with acquisitions at higher book yields, and the low cost of deposits we maintained during the quarter supported higher net interest margin.
Our cost of deposits increased only 12 basis points during the fourth quarter to 21 basis points.
We've managed deposit pricing largely on an exception basis since the beginning of the rate cycle, though we do expect to see an increase at a quicker pace in the coming months given the velocity of rate movement and the competitive environment.
Pre-tax pre-provision earnings continue to increase with 7% growth quarter over quarter to $46 million. And when adjusted for merger-related costs and amortization of acquired intangibles in each period, pre-tax pre-provision earnings increase 36% to $66.6 million.
and as a percentage of tangible assets to 2.28 percent.
We delivered organic loan growth in addition to growth through acquisition this quarter. Our credit standards remain disciplined and focused on relationship lending, and we saw annualized organic growth of 14% this quarter.
I'll emphasize that the growth is in keeping with the bank's credit standards and is a combination of solid production in the quarter and slowing loan prepayments.
The loan-to-deposit ratio ended the quarter at 82%.
Average loan yields increased 84 basis points to 5.29 percent. And the December weighted average add-on yields reached 6.5 percent.
Credit risk metrics remain strong with non-accrual loans representing 0.35% of total loans compared to 0.32% in the prior quarter.
The quarterly provision for credit losses is $14.1 million, including $15 million in initial provision on the Apollo and Drummond acquired loans, offset by the release of $2.1 million in reserves we established in the third quarter to provide for losses potentially resulting from the impact of Hurricane Ian that did not materialize.
The allowance for credit losses stands at 1.4 percent of total loans and continues to reflect the possibility of potentially deteriorating economic conditions.
Wealth management was a particular bright spot during the quarter and for the full year 2022, with the wealth management team adding $425 million in assets under management over the last 12 months. Adam placement, investing in
And as you know, there's been significant activity on the M&A front, including the closings of the Apollo and Drummond transactions on October 7th and the upcoming acquisition of Professional Bank expected on January 31st with system conversion late in the second quarter of 2023.
Turning to slide six.
Net interest income expanded 36% during the quarter, adding $31.5 million with higher yields and higher loan balances.
Net interest margin expanded 69 basis points to 4.36 percent. And excluding PPP and accretion on acquired loans, net interest margin increased by 43 basis points to just over 4 percent.
In the securities portfolio, yields increased 41 basis points to 2.77 percent and loan yields expanded 84 basis points to 5.29 percent.
We continue to benefit from a strong low-cost funding base with 64% transaction accounts, and the cost of deposits increased only 12 basis points to 21 basis points.
The additions during the quarter of Apollo and Drummond Banks further enhance the deposit base with long-standing granular relationships.
Looking ahead, we expect continued expansion of net interest income driven by balance sheet growth and more modestly increasing yields on loans and securities outpacing increasing deposit costs.
In the first quarter, we model net interest income in a range between $132 million and $138 million, with the actual outcomes highly dependent on the pace and velocity of deposit competition in the coming quarter.
Moving to slide seven.
Adjusted non-interest income was $17.6 million, an increase of $1.2 million from the previous quarter and a decrease of $700,000 from the prior year quarter.
We saw increases in service charges and interchange revenue, and wealth management revenue increased 6% from prior quarter and 22% from the prior year quarter.
comparing overall performance to the prior year quarter. The decrease relates to lower mortgage banking activity impacted by rising rates, with mortgage-related income of $2 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared to about $400,000 in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Looking ahead, we continue to focus on growing our broad base of revenue sources, and with the benefit of the expanded franchise, we expect first quarter non-interest income in a range from $20 million to $23 million, which includes the partial quarter activity from professional banks.
Moving to slide 8.
Adjusted non-interest expense for the quarter was $70.4 million, which was lower than the guidance we provided last quarter.
Increases from the prior quarter were aligned with the expanded associate base and growing customer base. And it's important to note that the Drummond and Apollo cost energies will fully materialize beginning in the 2nd quarter of 2023.
Salaries and benefits on an adjusted basis increased $12.3 million, reflecting the increase in staff to support Seacoast's expanded statewide franchise, as well as increases in incentives related to higher commercial production during the quarter.
Data processing costs are typically volume based, and the increase aligns with the larger customer base and higher transaction volume.
Similarly, occupancy-related costs are in line with the increase in the bank's footprint during the quarter.
Amortizing core deposit intangible assets increased during the quarter with the addition of Apollo and Drummond.
Amortization of these assets during the fourth quarter was $4.8 million, and we expect the full year amortization, including the addition of Professional Bank, to be approximately $28 million.
Looking ahead, we expect to maintain our expense discipline while continuing investments to support growth.
We expect first quarter expenses, scaling with the growing size of the organization in the range of 86 million to 90 million, inclusive of the operating results of Apollo and Drummond and a partial quarter for professional.
On an adjusted basis, excluding the amortization of intangibles, that would be 80 to 84 million.
On slide nine, the efficiency ratio on an adjusted basis improved to 52%.
As we scale the company for growth and become the leading bank in our Florida markets, we continue to pace our investments with discipline evidenced by our consistent focus on efficiency.
Looking forward to the full year 2023, we expect to maintain the efficiency ratio in the low 50s.
Turning to slide 10.
The chart on the left highlights the continued diverse mix of our credit exposures and our disciplined approach to managing concentrations.
In the upper right of the slide, construction and commercial real estate concentrations remain well below regulatory guidelines and well below peer levels.
Turning to slide 11.
Loan outstandings increased $241 million, or 14% excluding acquisitions on an annualized basis.
Commercial originations were up over the prior quarter and looking forward we're seeing market demand generally slowing impacted by rising rates.
Average core loan yields increased by 50 basis points during the quarter to 4.8%, with the December weighted average add-on yields reaching 6.5%.
We expect the pace of loan growth to moderate somewhat, expecting an annualized growth rate in the first quarter in the mid-single digits.
Loan yields will continue to benefit from the higher rate environment and we expect core yields in the first quarter, excluding purchase accounting accretion, to expand meaningfully to the 5.20s range.
Turning to slide 12, in the investment securities portfolio, the average yield increased during the quarter by 41 basis points to 2.77 percent. Values have stabilized and duration in the AFS portfolio has extended somewhat from around 3.5 in the third quarter to 3.73 in the fourth quarter.
Turning to slide 13, deposits outstanding totaled just under $10 billion, which is an increase of $1.2 billion from September .
net of acquired balances, there were outflows of approximately $320 million in non-interest-bearing demand accounts
Our cost of deposits increased by only 12 basis points and we did see some outflows with impacts from rate sensitivity and a general absorption of liquidity in the market.
The competitive environment is increasingly dynamic, and our expectation is that the cost of deposits will increase at a faster pace in the first quarter than in the fourth quarter, in addition to the impact of adding higher-cost deposits from professional banks.
That said, we continue to expect to outperform peers as the environment serves to highlight the strength of our low-cost deposit base.
Looking forward to the first quarter, including the impact of Professional Bank, we expect our cost of deposits to move above 50 basis points.
Providing more precise guidance is difficult given the increasingly dynamic competitive market for deposits.
Moving to slide 14, wealth revenues increased 6% compared to the third quarter and 22% compared to the fourth quarter of 2021.
The previously mentioned deposit outflows contributed in part to the strong results for the Wealth Management Division.
You'll see that assets under management has increased 60% from $870 million two years ago to nearly $1.4 billion today.
Moving on to credit topics on slide 15.
The allowance for credit losses increased during the quarter by $18.6 million to an overall $113.9 million with a decline in coverage of two basis points to 1.4%.
The provision this quarter was 14.1 million, which included 15 million assigned to the portfolios acquired from Apollo and Drummond, offset by the release of 2.1 million we had set aside for Hurricane Ian, but fortunately did not need.
We remain watchful of inflation pressures and are carefully considering the ongoing impacts of higher rates on the economy, though our credit metrics remain very strong.
Moving to slide 16, charge-offs were only four basis points on the overall portfolio. Extreme loans represent 0.35% of total loans.
The percentage of criticized loans to risk-based capital increased modestly with conservative grading on acquired loans.
And in the allowance, we continue to assess the environment and the factors that might affect loan performance. In this quarter, the allowance for credit losses is modestly lower at 1.4 percent of total loans, again attributed to the release of hurricane reserves.
On slide 17, our capital position continues to be very strong and we're committed to maintaining our fortress balance sheet. You can see the somewhat dilutive effect of the acquisitions in the fourth quarter on tangible equity and from prior quarters this year of the decline in accumulated other comprehensive income.
While those measures will return over time, we're committed to driving shareholder value creation.
The ratio of tangible common equity to tangible assets is a strong 9.1 percent. In this quarter, adjusted return on tangible common equity was 15.1 percent.
In summary, considering our peer-leading capital levels, prudent credit culture, and high-quality customer franchise, we have one of the strongest balance sheets in the industry, providing optionality if a recession materializes, and flexibility to be opportunistic in client selection, organic growth, and
and acquisition opportunities and to continue to build Florida's leading community bank.
We'll look forward to your questions. Chuck, I'll turn the call back to you. Thank you, Tracy. And before we go to Q&A, I just want to say thank you to all the Seacoast associates on the call. 2022 was truly a special year. I'm incredibly proud of all of you and thank you for all your hard work and effort.
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I wanted to start with loan growth. You know, I know you guys had been expecting high single digit. It sounds like you're more in the mid single digit area for the first quarter of the year. Should we think about mid single digits as...
you know, appropriate for the entire year? Or do you think that you get back to the high single after you get through the kind of seasonally slow one queue?
Yeah, and maybe looking back at the quarter, you know, we really had a very good quarter for loan growth and it was a nice mix between C&I and commercial real estate and in large part was driven by a lot of the new additions to the teams we added over the back half of the year last year and it was really great to see the relationships come over.
of the year, so nice pull up and new loan yields. And looking forward, it's tough to provide guidance beyond a quarter. We're guiding to mid-single digits for the first quarter. I would say at this point, given the inversion of the curve, I think it's prudent for us to be cautious and thoughtful as we move through this period. We'll continue to ask.
And then accredable yield really ticked up in the fourth quarter. It was almost 10 million. That was more than you all did for the first three quarters of the year combined. I know that line item can be very difficult to forecast. And I know you're about to add professional into that bucket, but.
Any shot at what a createable yield could be for the full year 2023?
Yeah, I think when we look back at the fourth quarter and the acquisition estimate, the credit marks came in really in line with our expectations, but to your point, the rate marks with those measurements driven off of the rate environment on October 7th for both banks, the data closing, the rate marks came in a bit higher and so impacting the accredible yield.
and you'll see it move a little higher after that.
All right, and then lastly for me, I mean, Seacos has been incredibly active in M&A. You know, you're closing your biggest deal ever next week. I know that I know bank M&A nowadays is tougher just with the rate mark component.
But how do you think about Bank of May? You know, you've done a lot. Is it time to stop and pause and digest what you've done? Or are you still on the offense and think you could see additional deals beyond professional this year?
I think the way to think about M&A for us is we're in the middle of about to convert to Drummond. We'll get that done here about the first week of February . Then our plan is to convert to professional right around the first week of June . As we come out of professional, we'll be ready.
and available to do M&A, but I think it'll be highly dependent upon what market conditions are at that time and whether or not pricing can make sense. You know, obviously, earnbacks have to make sense in M&A, and we have to be able to model not only liquidity, but also credit reserve, etc. So, you know, it'd be dependent on where things stand when we get there, but I think from an operational perspective.
Thanks, Brady.
Thank you. Our next question is from the line of David Feaster. Please go ahead. Is that open?
Hey, good morning everybody.
David?
I want to circle back to the loan growth side. I mean, you talked about things starting to slow, but I just wanted to get some of the sense of the puts and takes here, right? How much of this...
is weaker demand from clients versus maybe you guys having less of an appetite for credit at this point given the economic backdrop. And if you could just talk about maybe what segments are still like what loans coming across your desk or what sectors
are still providing good risk-adjusted returns? And maybe are there anything that you're kind of avoiding or slowing where it just doesn't make sense?
Thanks for the question, David.
growing a bank into an inverted curve, as I mentioned on the last question, is something you have to be prudent and thoughtful about. And when we look at what we're seeing, particularly in the commercial real estate sector, things have slowed pretty dramatically. When you look at cap rates and where interest rates are.
And it just seems like deal transactions have just really slowed pretty dramatically here. We're also seeing much less transactions in the residential market, and both are being driven by the same thing. Customers are in rates that are lower.
you know, rates are much higher in the marketplace and then cap rates and commercial real estate remain low. So, you know, there's certainly less transactional volume and the last thing you want to do is stretch into that environment. And so we're being thoughtful there. I would say we've pulled back pretty strongly out of construction or spec at this point, but we're still looking at stabilized.
nice looks given some of the talent we brought into the company on the CNI side. So we're taking our opportunities there and on the commercial real estate side where we have appropriate leverage, strong cash flow, and strong balance sheets. Good borrowers will do deals there. Again, we're like kind of the way we're.
playing the game pretty firmly here as we need full relationships as we move through time. We need to understand balance sheets, understand liquidity, understand deeply the client. And so it's a conservative approach given the environment, but I think we're navigating it pretty well. And you know when you step back and just look at the balance sheet the way we construct
And then maybe on the other side of the coin just touching on the funding You talked about it. It's extremely competitive out there. Obviously data's are accelerating odds and costs are Increasing and you've done a great job managing that. I'm just curious how you think about deposit flows as we look forward slower growth, you know does
you know alleviate some of that pressure but just curious like what what are you seeing how much of the the outflows this quarter are surge deposits or more price sensitive clients leaving and seeking higher rates you know maybe in the bond market versus borrowers just using cash to pay down higher cost debt.
And then just any thoughts on how you plan to manage future potential outflows between borrowings, broker funding, or even potential security sales.
You know, you captured it all in the question, David. The bond market is obviously now a competitor to bank deposits. I think the pace of which rates moved up on the short end of the curve created a real competitor. And when you look at the overall marketplace for bank deposits, it's certainly shrunk. And you've seen that not only in the short end of the curve, but also in the long end of the curve.
balances across title companies and attorneys and that's just the fact that there's a lot less transactions happening in the marketplace.
And then the remainder of it was, you know, just generally customers having less balance in their accounts and some obviously rate pressure. That being said, you know, when you look at our franchise, we have 240,000 accounts. Eighty-seven percent of those accounts have under $5 million at Seacoast. And if you...
sort of peel it back further 68% of those counts are under a million. You know, so we are a very granular franchise that's been built over almost 100 years. That provides a lot of strength in these environments and we're 65% transactional on the depository side in terms of our funding base.
community just given the transactional relationship nature and the granular franchise we built over, you know, a very long period of time. But, you know, looking forward, I don't know, Michael, you want to get some comments on the way we're thinking about deposits as we move forward? Yeah, David, I just add to that, that, you know, I think on a go forward basis, you know, we'll look to, you know, hold balances a lot more steady or potentially hopefully grow them.
The competitive environment will kind of dictate some of that. In the interim, we'll fund any gap with FHLB borrowings as we have done, but we're not obviously in a very net borrowed position as of 12-31. And so we'll just kind of manage that as we move forward throughout the year to optimize rate and volume.
about performing or potentially outperforming that on a standalone basis. So you will see the step up, as Tracy mentioned in her prepared comments from Professional Bank, once that deal closes, kind of just a one-time step up. But other than that, we'll continue to manage through this.
with a little more rate to just hold or drive balance growth. On the security side, I think you mentioned there, we wouldn't expect additional securities purchases or to grow that book. We'll just kind of let that amortize down over time, and we'll remix positively into very high loan yields that we're getting in the market today.
and that should be helpful to the overall NIM picture going forward. What are the securities cash flows that you're expecting this year?
Yeah, about 300 million, 300 to 350 million. The extra little bit could come from ProBank. So that's about the level, and that would fund a good percentage of our projected loan growth for the year.
Okay, and then maybe just kind of circling back to the M&A question, you know, on the other side, you've had a phenomenal job recruiting and attracting really high quality bankers.
I'm just curious how you think about recruiting versus M&A just given some of the challenges that that you alluded to And you know, how do you think about recruiting at this point? As we as we look forward.
Yeah, I think in both cases we'll be opportunistic. I think our banker size and the number of bankers we have in the company is appropriate right now for the growth rates we see out ahead. So if we're adding, it'll be where we see very high quality talent in markets we want to be in.
And as we've talked in the past, we're at a unique size in Florida now where we have a lot of brand across the state that we're building. And that's been very helpful in bringing in high quality bankers in conjunction with a lot of the disruption that's happening up above us and all the names you know. And so...
works and marks we want to be and we can get comfortable with liquidity and credit we would look at it but we just have to be thoughtful about the environment we're in and thoughtful about earnback
And David, I would just add we've got a lot of production capacity already within the banker set that we already have. So there's not a need to hire to drive growth at this point. But, you know, again, we always want to be opportunistic and build the franchise over time.
Thanks everybody.
Thank you, David.
Thank you. And our next question is from the line of Brendan King. Please go ahead. Your line is now open.
Hey, good morning.
Good morning, Brendan.
So another question on deposits, I just wanted to get a sense of the underlying mix there and the outlook for that, kind of in the quarter where the outflows came from, was it from more not interest bearing than interest bearing? And then how do you see that mix?
trending for the year as far as your intent to grow the profits.
Yeah, Brandon, most of the absorption of deposits in the fourth quarter, as you might expect, came from non-interest-bearing accounts. We saw some movement to other account types, but really largely those are just lower balances. That seems to be consistent with what we've been seeing across the industry.
We've chosen to manage pricing on that in a way that's kept our deposit cost low. We do expect, as Michael said, greater stability in deposit balances going forward, but at incrementally higher funding costs. So I think the patterns of customer behavior...
potentially have stabilized in terms of rate movement, but we'll continue to seek some stabilization through shifting our pricing strategy a bit.
Yeah, Brandon, I'll just add, I think on just the demand deposit side, we've seen a lot of the surge deposits and just kind of average account balances come down a little bit from that excess liquidity. So we're probably at a relatively better, more stable position, more similar back to pre-liquidity surge levels.
So that should be a little bit better. But we will continue to focus on growing core relationships and money market accounts with commercial customers, et cetera, so you'll see incremental growth there going forward.
better, but we will continue to focus on growing core relationships and money market accounts with commercial customers, etc. So you'll see incremental growth there going forward.
And then, I know this might be a little premature, but...
What is the kind of sense of how the company and performance levels could...
performance in the event that the Fed does cut rates.
I know people expect in the back half of this year and next year, just what is kind of the positioning from a balance perspective as far as how
a company could perform in that environment.
Yeah, sure, Brandon. Our dynamic NII look would be in an up 100 basis point scenario, we would be up about a little over 3%. In a down 100 scenario, we'd be down a little more than 3% as well. So pretty symmetric outcomes from that perspective, and our asset sensitivity has been reduced as well.
interest rates today and minimize downside risk. Obviously for Seacoast, as a franchise, our strength is our funding basis. We've seen this quarter and so we want to make sure that we maintain the monetization of that strength going forward.
Thanks for taking my questions.
Thanks for taking my questions. Thanks, Brent. Thanks, Brandon.
Thank you. And at this moment, I'm showing no further questions. I'll turn it back to the speakers.
Thank you and thank you all for joining us. You know as quarter showed the strength of the franchise and our focus on building franchise over the long run it was great to see the strong results for the quarter and just to reiterate appreciate everybody at the Seacoast team and the hard work they put into last year you know it's just a truly remarkable year.
I'll see you next time.
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