shares of baxter international inc bax inched 063 higher to 5560 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 114 to 371998 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 112 to 3052380 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains baxter international inc closed 3410 short of its 52week high 8970 which the company achieved on february 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as thermo fisher scientific inc tmo rose 139 to 52440 medtronic plc mdt rose 162 to 8410 and stryker corp syk fell 033 to 21492 trading volume 44 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 30 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