shares of medtronic plc mdt inched 027 higher to 10639 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 059 to 3679965 and the sp 500 index spx falling 006 to 479354 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains medtronic plc closed 2950 below its 52week high 13589 which the company achieved on september 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 027 to 17108 abbott laboratories abt fell 235 to 13577 and stryker corp syk rose 348 to 27777 trading volume 76 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 69 m 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