European deal will pay off for Diebold

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DIEBOLD NIXDORF INC. $30 (New York symbol DBD; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 75.1 million; Market cap: $2.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.dieboldnixdorf.com) took its current form in August 2016 when it acquired Germany’s Wincor Nixdorf AG for $1.4 billion in cash and shares. The purchase made Diebold the world’s largest maker of automated teller machines (ATMs); over 90 of the world’s top 100 financial institutions use its services. The new operations also greatly expanded the company’s overseas business. It now gets 50% of its revenue from Europe, followed by North America (23%), Latin America (14%) and Asia (13%). Revenue more than doubled Thanks to the acquisition, Diebold’s revenue jumped 106.1%, to $5.0 billion in 2016 from $2.4 billion in 2015. The new Nixdorf operations contributed $1.65 billion to that gain. The company lost $176.7 million, or $2.56 a share, in 2016. That’s mainly because Diebold had to borrow most of the cash it…