shares of baxter international inc bax advanced 120 to 4318 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 133 to 414622 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 114 to 3402969 baxter international inc closed 3558 short of its 52week high 7876 which the company achieved on april 14th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as medtronic plc mdt rose 097 to 8159 stryker corp syk rose 052 to 29161