shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx inched 049 higher to 32324 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 010 to 410911 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 030 to 3358652 vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 195 below its 52week high 32519 which the company achieved on january 31st the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as abbvie inc abbv fell 017 to 16128 krystal biotech inc krys fell 275 to 8207 and arcturus therapeutics holdings inc arct fell 452 to 2494 trading volume 664596 remained 527351 below its 50day average volume of 12 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