Sale of ATM maker NCR hits a wall: sources

ATM maker NCR may soon need to remo🍃ve the “for sale” sign from its lawn, two sources close to the situation said.

The $3.8 billio﷽n Atlanta company, which also makes barcode scanners and self-checkout kiosks, put itself up for sale in early May, attracting two bidders who have walked away in recent weeks without striking a deal, the sources said.

No ne🧔w bi☂dders have since stepped up to the plate, the sources added.

The two private equity firms who expressed interest in making an offer are Warburg Pincus and Apollo Glo♊bal Management, the sources confirmed. Media reports about Warburg Pincus’ and Apollo’s interest in NCR in late May sent the company’s stock over $30 a share.

NCR close🐻d up 0.8% Tuesday to $31.33 a share, but fell in late trading as much as 7% after The Post posted this st💧ory online.

ATMs worldwide f🌜ell 1% in 2018 to 3.24 million due to branch closures and the rising popularity of mobile payments — the first-ever recorded decline in global ATMs, according to consulting firm RBR.

The number of US ATMs has also fallen 1%.

If NCR, which controls 27% of the global ATM market, attracts no new bidders, it will mark the company’s second failed sale𓃲s attempt in under five years.

Following a failed auction in 2015, the company turned to Blackstone Group for a cash infusion, selling the private equity giant $820 million worth of NCR convertible shares that paid a 5.5%ཧ interest rate.

Those shares 💙convert into NCR stock at $30 a sha🍸re.

If there were a shareholder vote on a sale, Blackstone would get to vote 𒈔its convertible shares as if it had converted the stake, giving it a majo🍃r say in the process, public filings show.

An NCR spokesperson waℱs not immediately available for commen꧑t.