Income Taxes - Additional Information (Detail)	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021	Mar. 31, 2020
Schedule Of Income Taxes [Line Items]
U.S. federal and state statutory rate	24.50%
Effective tax rate	20.20%	15.30%
Foreign Jurisdictions [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Schedule Of Income Taxes [Line Items]
Statutory federal rate	0.00%
Foreign Jurisdictions [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Schedule Of Income Taxes [Line Items]
Statutory federal rate	34.00%

Percentage of domestic federal statutory, state, and local tax rate applicable to pretax income (loss).

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Percentage of current income tax expense (benefit) and deferred income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to continuing operations.

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Percentage of the difference between reported income tax expense (benefit) and expected income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying the domestic federal statutory income tax rates to pretax income (loss) from continuing operations applicable to statutory income tax expense (benefit) outside of the country of domicile.

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