shares of ncr corp ncr were tumbling 17 in premarket trading friday after the company said it plans to split into two publicly traded businesses with one focusing on digital commerce and the other oriented around atms the late thursday announcement signaled that management wasnt able to proceed with a sale of the company throughout the strategic review process we received material interest in a whole company sale of ncr as well as interest in various individual segments of our business executive chairman frank martire said in a release in recent days it has become increasingly clear to the board that given the state of current financing markets we cannot deliver a whole company transaction that reflects an appropriate and acceptable value for ncr to our shareholders rbc capital markets analyst daniel perlin said in a note to clients thursday evening that the announcement was not the outcome we were hoping for as his read of the situation suggests financing in the highyield market did not support a price point high enough to receive shareholder approval ncr shares have lost 26 over the past 12 months as the sp 500 spx has declined by half that amount