Sale of stock number of investment owned shares issued in transaction.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=114001798&loc=d3e33918-111571

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- Definition

The number of shares issued or sold by the subsidiary or equity method investee per stock transaction.

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- Definition

Percentage of subsidiary's or equity investee's stock owned by parent company after stock transaction.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Equity Method Investments - Additional Information (Detail) - ASV after transaction [Member] - shares		1 Months Ended
	Feb. 28, 2018	Sep. 30, 2019	Dec. 31, 2019	Feb. 26, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Schedule Of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Equity method investment ownership percentage			21.20%	21.20%	21.20%
Number of shares sold	1,000,000
Percentage of reduction in investment	11.00%
Yanmar American Corporation [Member]
Schedule Of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Number of shares remaining for merger cash consideration		1,080,000