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Jul 21, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	3.79%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	138 142	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 10, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	0.87%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	138 144	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 10, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	11.1%	Kaumil GajrawalaJefferies 51%	152 162	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Jul 10, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	5.99%	Robert MoskowTD Cowen 65%	145 150	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Jul 10, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	16.95%	Dara MohsenianMorgan Stanley 72%	160 180	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 10, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	17.68%	Nik ModiRBC Capital 51%	161 163	Previous Sector Perform Current Sector Perform	Get Alert
Jul 10, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	2.33%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	140 150	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 10, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	5.99%	Filippo FalorniCitigroup 57%	145 170	Previous Buy Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jul 8, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	33.76%	Kevin GrundyBNP Paribas 53%	183 195	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Jul 2, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	25.72%	Peter GromUBS 61%	172 186	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Jul 2, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	5.26%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	144 158	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 1, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.26%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	170 178	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jun 25, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.26%	Filippo FalorniCitigroup 57%	170 182	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Jun 25, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	19.87%	Bryan SpillaneB of A Securities 61%	164 173	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jun 18, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	22.8%	Steve PowersDeutsche Bank 66%	168 173	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Jun 12, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	30.11%	Michael LaveryPiper Sandler 62%	178 181	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jun 12, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	4.52%	Cristian RiosBernstein 67%	143	Previous Initiates Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Jun 11, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	9.64%	Robert MoskowTD Cowen 65%	150 165	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Jun 11, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	4.52%	Cristian RiosBernstein 67%	143	Previous Initiates Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Jun 5, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	9.64%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	150 160	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
May 18, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	16.95%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	160 165	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Apr 20, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	15.49%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	154 158	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Apr 17, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	30.11%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	172 178	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Apr 17, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.26%	Robert OttensteinEvercore ISI Group 54%	165 170	Previous In-Line Current In-Line	Get Alert
Apr 14, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	12.56%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	154 160	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Apr 7, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	35.95%	Peter GromUBS 61%	186 190	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Mar 30, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	23.53%	Steve PowersDeutsche Bank 66%	169 176	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Mar 12, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	32.3%	Michael LaveryPiper Sandler 62%	172 181	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Feb 20, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	20.6%	Robert MoskowTD Cowen 65%	162 165	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Feb 4, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	33.03%	Filippo FalorniCitigroup 57%	170 182	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Feb 4, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	28.65%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	164 176	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Feb 4, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	20.6%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	154 165	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jan 14, 2026	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.26%	Peter GromUBS 61%	170 172	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Dec 17, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.26%	Filippo FalorniCitigroup 57%	165 170	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Dec 11, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	5.26%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	142 144	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Dec 10, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	19.87%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	151 164	Previous Neutral Current Overweight	Get Alert
Dec 9, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	25.72%	Michael LaveryPiper Sandler 62%	161 172	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Nov 21, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	17.68%	Mike LaveryPiper Sandler 57%	161 162	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Oct 23, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	19.87%	Georgy VashchenkoFreedom Broker 41%	164 170	Previous Buy Current Hold	Get Alert
Oct 10, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	12.56%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	150 154	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Oct 6, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	10.37%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	151 157	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Oct 3, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	2.33%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	140 144	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Sep 25, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	20.6%	Filippo FalorniCitigroup 57%	165 168	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Sep 25, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	9.64%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	150 154	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Sep 11, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.26%	Peter GromUBS 61%	170 175	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Sep 3, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	6.72%	Nik ModiRBC Capital 51%	146 146	Previous Sector Perform Current Sector Perform	Get Alert
Jul 21, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	5.26%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	132 144	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 18, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	12.56%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	140 154	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 18, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	22.8%	Filippo FalorniCitigroup 57%	160 168	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Jul 18, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	20.6%	Dara MohsenianMorgan Stanley 72%	153 165	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 15, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	-3.52%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	132 135	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 11, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	5.99%	Bryan SpillaneB of A Securities 61%	145 150	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jul 10, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	1.6%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	139 150	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jun 24, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	8.18%	Nik ModiRBC Capital 51%	148 148	Previous Sector Perform Current Sector Perform	Get Alert
Apr 28, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	-1.32%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	135 143	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Apr 25, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	2.33%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	140 150	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Apr 25, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	16.95%	Mike LaveryPiper Sandler 57%	160 167	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Apr 25, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	11.83%	Dara MohsenianMorgan Stanley 72%	153 168	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Apr 25, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	23.53%	Peter GromUBS 61%	169 175	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Apr 25, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	16.95%	Filippo FalorniCitigroup 57%	160 170	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Apr 25, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	9.64%	Bryan SpillaneB of A Securities 61%	150 155	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Apr 24, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	2.33%	Robert OttensteinEvercore ISI Group 54%	140 155	Previous In-Line Current In-Line	Get Alert
Apr 22, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	19.14%	Nik ModiRBC Capital 51%	163 163	Previous Sector Perform Current Sector Perform	Get Alert
Apr 21, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	16.22%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	158 159	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Apr 15, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	13.3%	Bryan SpillaneB of A Securities 61%	155 185	Previous Buy Current Neutral	Get Alert
Apr 14, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	4.52%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	143 156	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Mar 18, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	14.03%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	156 168	Previous Overweight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Mar 12, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.26%	Kaumil GajrawalaJefferies 51%	170 171	Previous Buy Current Hold	Get Alert
Mar 6, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	22.8%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	153 168	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Feb 7, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	—	Jiayuan HuangCICC 1%	—	Previous Outperform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Feb 6, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	11.83%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	153 158	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Feb 5, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	15.49%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	158 165	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Feb 5, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.99%	Kaumil GajrawalaJefferies 51%	171 182	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Feb 5, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	9.64%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	150 155	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Feb 5, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.26%	Filippo FalorniCitigroup 57%	170 195	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Feb 5, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	22.8%	Dara MohsenianMorgan Stanley 72%	168 185	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jan 29, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	25.72%	Nik ModiRBC Capital 51%	172 172	Previous Sector Perform Current Sector Perform	Get Alert
Jan 24, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	20.6%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	165 183	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jan 22, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	30.11%	Steve PowersDeutsche Bank 66%	178 184	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Jan 17, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	15.49%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	158 183	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jan 16, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	27.91%	Peter GromUBS 61%	175 193	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Jan 8, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	16.95%	Robert MoskowTD Cowen 65%	160 183	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Jan 7, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	13.3%	Chris CareyWells Fargo 62%	155 170	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jan 7, 2025	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	24.99%	Mike LaveryPiper Sandler 57%	171	Previous Initiates Current Overweight	Get Alert
Dec 12, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	34.49%	Steve PowersDeutsche Bank 66%	179 184	Previous Hold Current Buy	Get Alert
Oct 10, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	44.73%	Kaumil GajrawalaJefferies 51%	198 198	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Oct 10, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	33.76%	Robert MoskowTD Cowen 65%	183 190	Previous Buy Current Hold	Get Alert
Oct 10, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	33.76%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	183 186	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Oct 9, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	33.76%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	183 185	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Oct 9, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	30.84%	Steve PowersDeutsche Bank 66%	179 180	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Oct 9, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	28.65%	Nik ModiRBC Capital 51%	176 176	Previous Sector Perform Current Sector Perform	Get Alert
Oct 4, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	28.65%	Nik ModiRBC Capital 51%	176 177	Previous Sector Perform Current Sector Perform	Get Alert
Oct 4, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	35.95%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	186 187	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Oct 1, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	44.73%	Kaumil GajrawalaJefferies 51%	198 200	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Oct 1, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	35.22%	Andrea TeixeiraJP Morgan 63%	182 185	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Sep 30, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	35.22%	Bryan SpillaneB of A Securities 61%	185 190	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Sep 20, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	35.22%	Dara MohsenianMorgan Stanley 72%	185 185	Previous Overweight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 24, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	31.57%	Steve PowersDeutsche Bank 66%	180 185	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Jul 19, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	36.69%	Lauren LiebermanBarclays 64%	179 187	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jul 12, 2024	PEPPepsiCo	$136.81	35.22%	Dara MohsenianMorgan Stanley 72%	185 190	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert

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What Are Analyst Stock Ratings?

Analyst ratings measure the expected performance of a stock during a given time period. Analysts and brokerage firms often use ratings when they issue stock recommendations to stock traders.

Analysts arrive at stock ratings after they research companies’ public financial statements, communicate with executives and customers and interact with companies in other ways.

Most analysts issue ratings 4 times a year, usually at 3-month intervals.

How to Use Analyst Ratings

As an investor or trader, you want to be able to use analyst ratings effectively. Here are steps you can take to understand how to synthesize all the information analysts report about a particular company and how to apply it to your own trades.

Step 1: Check Ratings History

In the short term, look to see whether analysts suggest an initiation, upgrade or downgrade for a particular stock. Understand how the rating changed compared to the previous rating and whether a price target gets announced or changed.

Sometimes the rating stays the same and only the price target changes, which could cause the stock to move in either direction, depending on the significance of the change between the 2 price targets.

Step 2: Check for Other News

In the short term, check to see how the stock reacts to positive or negative news. This will be an indication of the company’s outlook because analyst ratings usually come out after the company announces news (it’ll typically be earnings news).

Step 3: Look at the Sector for News

Check to see if other stocks in the sector also received similar ratings. This could indicate micro news, which refers to when the whole sector or specific company trades in a specific way due to news outside of one company.

Step 4: Look at the Note

If available, look over the analyst note itself. The beginning of the note has the main information of the rating and price target. Investors should also take a look at the summary of the note, which you can find in the first couple pages and give you a concrete overview of the company. This can help you get an understanding of how analysts arrived at their thesis on the stock.

An example of an analyst note. Source: Needham

Step 5: Make a Decision

After reviewing the analyst ratings (and whether the analyst proposes a change or initiation) and find the reason for that note. Make a decision based on the analyst thesis on the company. This should give you guidance on how to make your thesis. Analyst ratings are a good indication of what professionals believe the company or sector will do, helping you get a better understanding of the companies you’re interested in.

Analyst Rating Accuracy

Analyst ratings are not set in stone and nobody knows indefinitely what a stock will do. Therefore, analyst ratings should be taken as an educated guess made by professionals who carefully study the specific company and sector in question. It's not a surprise that the accuracy of each rating can vary by each individual analyst and specific ratings on companies.

In other words, there’s no hard number or percentage on how accurate analyst ratings are because they are like educated guesses on what they think the stock will do based on their research, within that particular sector. In addition, each firm has so many analysts and so many different companies to review that you can compare ratings to glean what you believe is the truth.

Where Analyst Ratings Come From

Analyst ratings come from stock analysts. Analysts “go deep” on companies within a particular industry or sector. Some analysts employ a top-down approach (they start with an industry or sector and look for excellent companies within that industry or sector) and other stock analysts choose a bottom-up approach, which means they start with the company first and connect the dots within that company’s sector or industry. Analysts evaluate:

Financial statements
Economic fundamentals
Suppliers, customers and competitors
Management quality
Business model
Revenue
Expenses
Assets
Liabilities

While these evaluations are done using facts and figures that any investor can access, they come down to a conclusion the analyst must draw. While this isn’t an unqualified opinion, analysts will disagree because their interpretations of the data could vary.

Types of Stock Ratings

Stock ratings can range from simple “buy” and “sell” ratings to “equal weight” and “outperform” ratings. Here’s a quick overview of how analysts rate stocks.

Buy Rating

A “buy” rating indicates that an analyst is optimistic about a stock’s short-term or mid-term growth and recommends that traders purchase the stock. An analyst may even go so far as to indicate that a stock is a “strong buy.” At the same time, you may choose to swing trade the asset for a profit and come back later to start the process all over again.

Sell Rating

A “sell” rating means that an analyst believes the stock will trend downward in a particular time frame. Analysts might even refer to a security as a “strong sell.” Remember, though, you may want to swing trade and come back to this asset in the future even though you just chose to sell, just as you would under a “buy” rating.

Hold

A “hold” rating suggests that investors should not buy more of or sell the specified stock because they believe the stock should perform in a way that’s consistent with the market or will perform similarly to comparable companies within that particular sector. This is akin to the value investing approach that Warren Buffett uses, looking to gain long-term value from a single stock rather than flipping it because of a bad week. As many have said, it’s not a loss until you sell.

Underperform

An “underperform” rating means an analyst indicates that a stock is expected to perform below the market or sector average. And yes, while the underperform rating may not bode well for an asset in the next few weeks, it may not stay that way. Continue to carefully monitor your portfolio to ensure that an underperforming asset hasn’t turned itself around. As companies are faced with the Herculean task of pleasing shareholders, they will push to fix their underperforming stocks, meaning that a stock you wrote off could rise again.

Outperform

An “outperform” rating means that an analyst expects a stock to outperform the market or sector average. While the stock may look to outperform the market or a sector’s average, that doesn’t mean it will continue to soar forever. You must look at an outperform rating as what that asset will do in recent times, but it may not maintain that trajectory.

Equal-Weight

An equal weight rating means that an analyst believes that an individual stock's performance will tie to the average of all the stocks that an analyst covers in that particular sector. This type of rating helps investors get a true comparison of stocks to each other within a particular sector or industry. At the same time, equal-weight ratings could change at any time.

Price Target

A price target is an analyst’s projection of a stock’s future price. A price target is generally set up in a general trade or area where the asset might land. This means that the analyst could get close without hitting the figure on the head. Even so, the analyst wants to get close and better predict the movement of the marketplace and the asset.

Understanding Stock Ratings

Stock ratings are assessments of the investment potential of a particular stock. They are typically created by financial analysts who evaluate a company's financial performance, competitive positioning, and market outlook to provide guidance on the stock's expected future performance.

Ratings typically range from "buy" to "sell," with variations in between, such as "hold," "accumulate," or "neutral." A "buy" rating suggests that the stock is likely to perform well in the future, and investors should consider purchasing it. Conversely, a "sell" rating indicates that the stock is expected to underperform, and investors should consider selling it.

It's important to note that ratings are not guarantees of performance and should not be relied upon solely when making investment decisions. Ratings are just one factor to consider when evaluating a stock's potential, and investors should also conduct their own research and analysis to make informed decisions.

Another thing to keep in mind is that different analysts may have different opinions on a stock, so it's a good idea to consider multiple ratings before making an investment decision.

In addition to analyst ratings, investors can also consider other factors when evaluating a stock, such as its financial statements, management team, industry trends, and overall market conditions. By combining all of these factors, investors can make informed decisions about which stocks to buy or sell.

In summary, stock ratings are an important tool for investors to consider when evaluating a stock's potential, but they should not be the only factor used in investment decision-making. It's important to conduct your own research, consider multiple ratings, and take into account other factors before making an investment decision.

Should You Use Analyst Ratings to Inform Your Own Trades?

You can definitely use analyst ratings to inform your own trades and inform your own thesis but it’s a good idea to do your own research. However, analyst ratings are just one step in what should be a much larger investment strategy. Don’t fall in love with just one analyst. Compare notes. Look into how these ratings match with activity on the market and current events. Plus, remember that an analyst rating could easily be incorrect. No one is perfect, but these ratings are a good place to start.

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