shares of fortive corp ftv rose 106 to 6367 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 095 to 416068 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3318014 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains fortive corp closed 1620 below its 52week high 7987 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as mks instruments inc mksi fell 030 to 12155 mesa laboratories inc mlab fell 074 to 20923 and lgl group inc lgl fell 129 to 1150 trading volume 15 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 27 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