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NCR Voyix (VYX) Posts A Shrinking Top Line And A Growing Pipeline

Mon, September 14, 2026 at 5:52 AM GMT+3 4 min read

• VYX +5.95%

On August 5, NCR Voyix (NYSE:VYX) reported second-quarter results that read very differently depending on which line you focus on. Revenue fell 21% year over year to $523 million from $660 million, a drop that looks alarming until you learn it comes from a deliberate hardware business exit rather than fading demand. Strip that transition out and revenue actually grew 1%. The gap between the reported number and the underlying number is the real story here.

The Platform Business Keeps Compounding

Software and services revenue rose to $497 million from $493 million a year earlier, and the more recurring layers of that business grew faster still. Recurring revenue climbed to $435 million from $421 million, while recurring software revenue, the stickiest and highest margin piece, rose to $211 million from $199 million. Adjusted EBITDA expanded to $98 million from $93 million, so the profitability gain is showing up in a metric that strips out one-time noise, not just in pro forma math.

The pipeline behind those figures looks even stronger. Remaining Contract Value tied to the Voyix Commerce Platform reached roughly $286 million as of June 30, up 65% from a year earlier, while platform sites grew 10% to 85,000 and payment sites rose 2% to more than 8,500. New business kept arriving too. In July, the company signed a platform contract with Pizza Ranch to roll out Aloha Next and Voyix Pay across more than 200 restaurants, and in May it struck a direct partnership with Voyager to bring fleet card acceptance onto Voyix Connect. Management also spent $11 million buying back stock in the quarter and left its full-year outlook unchanged.

The Hardware Exit Still Stings

The headline revenue drop is still real money. $523 million against $660 million a year ago is a 21% decline, and it reflects an actual change in what the company sells, not an accounting quirk that disappears once you adjust for it. NCR Voyix swung to a net loss from continuing operations of $1 million, compared with roughly breakeven in the same quarter last year, and diluted EPS from continuing operations stayed negative at $0.03. Non-GAAP diluted EPS, the figure management leans on most, was flat at $0.17 in both periods, so the improved adjusted profitability has not yet reached the per-share line.

The full-year outlook underscores how unfinished this transition is. NCR Voyix guided to 2026 revenue of $2.19 billion to $2.303 billion, a decline of 13% to 18% on a reported basis, and even the pro forma comparison only calls for a range of negative 2% to positive 3%. That is a wide band for a company asking investors to trust the underlying trend over the reported figures, and it leaves little room for error if the platform ramp takes longer than planned to fully replace what hardware used to contribute.

A Cheap Stock With Heavy Skepticism

Hedge fund ownership of NCR Voyix fell to 23 funds from 29 the prior quarter, a pullback among institutional holders even as margins improved. Short interest sits at 38.45% of the float, an extraordinarily high figure that signals heavy organized skepticism about where this stock is headed. Yet the forward P/E is just 8.06, as of September 11, pricing in almost none of the recurring revenue growth or contract value gains the quarter highlighted. That combination is the disagreement the market has not resolved.

The Trade Investors Are Making

NCR Voyix is a company mid-transition, trading a shrinking hardware business for a smaller but stickier software and payments platform. The recurring revenue, contract value, and site count figures all point in the same direction, while the reported revenue decline and flat non-GAAP EPS show that trade is not finished paying off. Recurring revenue and Remaining Contract Value would need to keep compounding at their current pace to keep validating the platform story. A 2026 guidance range that lands at its weaker end would instead give the elevated short interest something concrete to point to.

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