shares of bristol myers squibb co bmy inched 046 higher to 6519 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 069 to 454654 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 078 to 3540524 bristol myers squibb co closed 456 short of its 52week high 6975 which the company achieved on august 23rd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 082 to 17088 merck  co inc mrk rose 054 to 8192 and pfizer inc pfe rose 072 to 5307 trading volume 109 m remained 31 million below its 50day average volume of 140 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