shares of johnson  johnson jnj inched 057 higher to 17583 monday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 004 to 446118 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 058 to 3455299 johnson  johnson closed 409 short of its 52week high 17992 which the company reached on august 20th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as roche holding ag part cert rhhvf remained unchanged merck  co inc mrk fell 006 to 7906 and pfizer inc pfe fell 059 to 5419 trading volume 75 m remained 893407 below its 50day average volume of 84 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