shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx inched 010 higher to 33385 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 073 to 411524 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 077 to 3279992 vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 2061 short of its 52week high 35446 which the company reached on may 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as abbvie inc abbv fell 096 to 14115 krystal biotech inc krys fell 050 to 11853 and arcturus therapeutics holdings inc arct fell 007 to 2823 editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use