shares of edwards lifesciences corp ew inched 028 higher to 9044 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 004 to 437686 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 022 to 3385266 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains edwards lifesciences corp closed 1748 below its 52week high 10792 which the company achieved on july 28th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as abbott laboratories abt fell 017 to 10761 medtronic plc mdt fell 091 to 8636 and stryker corp syk rose 051 to 30028 trading volume 15 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 27 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