shares of pfizer inc pfe inched 002 higher to 4792 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim 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 the stocks rise snapped a fourday losing streak pfizer inc closed 1379 short of its 52week high 6171 which the company achieved on december 20th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 153 to 16819 merck  co inc mrk rose 023 to 8450 and novartis ag adr nvs fell 244 to 8052 trading volume 233 m remained 15 million below its 50day average volume of 247 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