Daily Buydy heatmap for Saturday, August 1, 2026: 10 large-cap names that fell in price while staying strong vs sector peers. Screening context, not advice.
Daily Buydy heatmap for Saturday, August 1, 2026: 10 large-cap names that fell in price while staying strong vs sector peers. Screening context, not advice.
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The quality dividend decliners heatmap is lighting up today with 10 names across utilities, energy, materials, and industrials. These are companies that have fallen in price over recent months but continue to rank in the top tier of their sector peers on dividend strength, balance sheet health, and earnings power. A dip in price paired with stable fundamentals is where patient buyers start their research.
RED.MC (Utilities - Regulated Electric) leads the shortlist with a 75% peer quality score and a 14% one-year decline. The real signal here is the dividend metrics: 89th percentile for current yield, 91st for the past six months, and an exceptional 93rd percentile on three-month dividend growth versus other utilities. That combination suggests the dividend is intact and growing even as the stock has pulled back.
SOMA.OL (Marine Shipping) and AGI.TO (Gold) show deeper wounds. SOMA has fallen 24% over twelve months, AGI down 34.4% in six months. Both rank near the top for dividend yield (93rd and 13th percentiles, respectively), but AGI's weakness in dividend growth metrics (6th to 9th percentile) hints at stress. SOMA, by contrast, scores 100th percentile on three-month dividend growth, signaling the market may have overshot the decline.
A 70% quality score means nothing in isolation. The Buydy ranking compares each name to its direct peers, not the whole market. RED.MC's 89th-percentile dividend yield is top-tier for utilities, a sector known for generous payouts. That same yield on a tech company would be unremarkable. BOUV.OL (Information Technology Services) shows 0% on current dividend yield but ranks 93rd to 100th percentile on recent dividend growth, suggesting it has recently initiated or sharply increased distributions. Contrast that with A1AP34.SA (Auto Parts), which sits in the 9th to 29th percentile range for yield and shows weaker growth tailwinds. The peer percentile context tells the story of who is truly standing out.
DOFG.OL (Engineering & Construction) and SOLB.BR (Chemicals) both rank in the 95th to 97th percentile for current dividend yield. They've fallen less than 7% in the past year or three months, suggesting modest repricing rather than panic selling. Small declines paired with fortress-like relative fundamentals can signal the market is being overcautious.
Use the Buydy heatmap to shortlist one or two names that match your sector interest and time horizon. Pull up the company page for RED.MC or SOMA.OL if utilities or shipping fit your portfolio. Review the dividend history chart, debt trend, and DCF valuation upside. That same screen-to-company-page workflow takes five minutes and surfaces the data you need to decide if a deeper dive makes sense. The goal is to identify which declines are temporary repricing of healthy businesses, not which ones to chase today.
Next step: run a dividend quality screen in the Buydy app and filter by your preferred sectors to build your own shortlist.
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