shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx inched 005 higher to 33352 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 021 to 413764 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 042 to 3388647 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 057 below its 52week high 33409 which the company achieved on april 13th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as abbvie inc abbv fell 068 to 16159 krystal biotech inc krys fell 286 to 8638 and arcturus therapeutics holdings inc arct fell 272 to 2757 trading volume 930965 remained 214321 below its 50day average volume of 11 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