shares of baxter international inc bax dropped 046 to 4504 friday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 077 to 434833 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 065 to 3372743 baxter international inc closed 2238 short of its 52week high 6742 which the company achieved on june 27th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as medtronic plc mdt rose 008 to 8748 stryker corp syk fell 000 to 29788 and becton dickinson  co bdx fell 059 to 25655 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