shares of baxter international inc bax slipped 166 to 4096 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 024 to 428385 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 003 to 3357328 baxter international inc closed 3267 short of its 52week high 7363 which the company achieved on june 10th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as medtronic plc mdt fell 016 to 8360 stryker corp syk fell 051 to 27655 and becton dickinson  co bdx fell 139 to 25046 trading volume 31 m remained 25 million below its 50day average volume of 57 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