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DirectCash Payments Inc., $12.76, symbol DCI on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 17.6 million; Market cap: $231.1 million; www.directcash.net), is the largest non-bank owner and operator of automated teller machines in Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the third-largest in the U.K. It also operates ATMs in Mexico. In addition, the company serves credit unions and other small financial institutions that outsource their ATM transactions. DirectCash now has 20,984 active ATMs, up 5.6% from 19,874 a year ago. Its machines processed 30.4 million transactions in the latest quarter, up 3.0% from 29.5 million. The company’s shares took a big drop in mid-May when it announced its 2015 first-quarter results, and they’ve moved lower since. In the three months ended March 31, 2015, DirectCash’s revenue fell 1.8%, to $66.0 million from $67.3 million a year earlier. Cash flow per share declined 24.1%, to $0.60 from $0.79. A long-time service contract expired during the quarter, and the company had to remove 124 ATMs from Target stores because…