shares of johnson  johnson jnj slumped 047 to 17500 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 113 to 451161 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 074 to 3480746 johnson  johnson closed 492 below its 52week high 17992 which the company reached on august 20th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as roche holding ag part cert rhhvf fell 489 to 37950 merck  co inc mrk rose 030 to 7930 and pfizer inc pfe fell 212 to 5304 trading volume 78 m remained 607379 below its 50day average volume of 84 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