shares of becton dickinson  co bdx rallied 171 to 25036 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 207 to 468675 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 140 to 3571943 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains becton dickinson  co closed 1701 below its 52week high 26737 which the company reached on january 12th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as thermo fisher scientific inc tmo rose 104 to 62871 intuitive surgical inc isrg rose 516 to 34049 and baxter international inc bax rose 081 to 7988 trading volume 17 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 14 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