shares of becton dickinson  co bdx inched 033 higher to 25731 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 052 to 436569 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 030 to 3395152 becton dickinson  co closed 1175 below its 52week high 26906 which the company achieved on august 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as danaher corp dhr rose 047 to 23771 medtronic plc mdt fell 070 to 8832 and dexcom inc dxcm fell 162 to 12786 trading volume 765675 remained 399932 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