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BUZZ-Cape: falling profit hits shares

** Cape -3.1 pct, within touching distance of a multi-year low

** Co, which provides insulation and coatings to the energy sector, says H1 PBT from cont ops down to 1.4 mln stg vs 17.6 mln stg last year

** H1 revenue up 10 pct, driven by Asia Pacific business, but says weaker-than-expected margins in UK result in group operating profit drop of 25 pct

** Co sees profit weighted to H2 and says order intake down to 309 mln stg from 399 mln stg

** About a third of 30-day avg volume gone through in first 15 minutes

** Up to Monday's close, stock had fallen about 20 pct YTD compared with a 5.9 pct increase in the FTSE Small Cap index (Reuters Messaging: pranav.kiran@thomsonreuters.com@reuters (Other OTC: UBGXF - news) )