shares of gilead sciences inc gild rose 157 to 8000 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 056 to 397099 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 041 to 3223753 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains gilead sciences inc closed 974 short of its 52week high 8974 which the company reached on december 13th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 101 to 15265 pfizer inc pfe rose 052 to 4039 and abbott laboratories abt rose 104 to 9805 trading volume 46 m remained 18 million below its 50day average volume of 65 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