shares of abbott laboratories abt inched 021 higher to 13527 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 178 to 464923 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 160 to 3549270 abbott laboratories closed 400 below its 52week high 13927 which the company achieved on december 17th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 032 to 16721 roche holding ag part cert rhhvf fell 051 to 40676 and pfizer inc pfe fell 339 to 5895 trading volume 71 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 53 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