shares of novavax inc nvax rose 464 to 721 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 219 to 1297569 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 100 to 3309334 novavax inc closed 6956 below its 52week high 7677 which the company reached on july 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 004 to 15435 pfizer inc pfe fell 061 to 3760 and merck  co inc mrk fell 110 to 11107 trading volume 41 m remained 18 million below its 50day average volume of 59 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