The Dow tops 18,000 during trading, the first time that has happened since July 21. After tumbling earlier in the year, the Dow is now up 3 percent year-to-date.
Despite the rally in equities, Burns McKinney, portfolio manager at NFJ Investment Group, tells CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Monday the dividend trade still has room to run.
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"The traditional high yielding sectors, like the bond proxies (utilities, staples) have gotten rich, but dividend payers as a diversified whole are now 2 multiple points cheaper than the ," McKinney said.
He still sees opportunities in 2 consumer staples names.
"Although staples as a whole are expensive, trading at over 20x earnings, there are pockets of value there, and we like Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble," McKinney said.
Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble are higher during trading.