shares of hologic inc holx slid 305 to 7600 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 095 to 397873 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 060 to 3212028 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses hologic inc closed 504 below its 52week high 8104 which the company achieved on september 10th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 098 to 17962 abbott laboratories abt fell 051 to 11319 and thermo fisher scientific inc tmo fell 265 to 53427 trading volume 30 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 19 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