shares of boston scientific corp bsx inched 052 higher to 5177 friday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 021 to 413764 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 042 to 3388647 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains boston scientific corp hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 5176 which the company reached on april 13th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as abbott laboratories abt rose 034 to 10396 medtronic plc mdt fell 108 to 8071 and stryker corp syk rose 005 to 29176 trading volume 93 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 81 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