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Acquisitions and Dispositions - Summary of Purchase Price (Parenthetical) (Detail) | Feb. 01, 2019 $ / shares shares
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Business Combinations [Abstract] |
Business acquisition share price | $ / shares | $ 30.00
Business acquisition number of shares acquired | shares | 34,422,361

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