shares of stryker corp syk dropped 028 to 27150 thursday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 010 to 469605 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 047 to 3623647 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses stryker corp closed 966 short of its 52week high 28116 which the company achieved on september 9th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as medtronic plc mdt fell 098 to 10497 boston scientific corp bsx fell 107 to 4259 and edwards lifesciences corp ew fell 056 to 12323true trading volume 18 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 13 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