3 Rising Dividend Stocks Right on Target for 2017

Dividend growers Texas Instruments (TXN) - Get Report , Accenture (ACN) - Get Report  and Medtronic (MDT) - Get Report are superior to companies that simply sport high dividend yields, says Don Taylor, portfolio manager for the Franklin Rising Dividends Fund (FRDPX) - Get Report . At a time when many are expecting interest rates to rise and bond prices to fall, Taylor says this is a particularly important distinction.