Restructurings Brighten Their Outlook

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NCR CORP. $52 (New York symbol NCR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 179.9 million; Market cap: $9.4 billion; WSSF Rating: Average) is a leading supplier of ATMs (automated teller machines), cash registers and bar code scanners, mainly to banks and retailers. The company also owns Teradata Data Warehousing, which helps businesses capture and analyze a wide variety of information, such as customer buying habits and inventory management. This information helps clients expand sales and make better decisions. Teradata accounts for roughly 30% of NCR’s total revenue. NCR plans to spin off Teradata as an independent company, probably in the third quarter of 2007. Investors will probably receive one Teradata share for each NCR share they own. NCR stockholders will only have to pay capital gains taxes when they sell their Teradata shares. The spin-off will let NCR focus on its core ATM operations. It’s currently restructuring its ATM manufacturing operations to cut costs, including shifting production to low-cost countries…