shares of fortive corp ftv slipped 177 to 5607 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 038 to 373548 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 050 to 3036483 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of losses fortive corp closed 2380 below its 52week high 7987 which the company achieved on november 22nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as mks instruments inc mksi rose 061 to 10746 mesa laboratories inc mlab fell 219 to 18470 and lgl group inc lgl fell 104 to 1140 trading volume 26 m remained 175547 below its 50day average volume of 28 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