shares of medtronic plc mdt advanced 174 to 7889 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 070 to 391925 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 056 to 3370410 medtronic plc closed 3542 short of its 52week high 11431 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 024 to 17516 danaher corp dhr rose 464 to 26689 and abbott laboratories abt rose 152 to 11385 trading volume 65 m remained 14 million below its 50day average volume of 79 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