shares of catalyst pharmaceuticals inc cprx advanced 373 to 1973 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 101 to 1074263 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 056 to 3370410 catalyst pharmaceuticals inc closed 078 short of its 52week high 2051 which the company reached on january 6th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 024 to 17516 pfizer inc pfe fell 159 to 4762 and abbott laboratories abt rose 152 to 11385 trading volume 18 m remained 623035 below its 50day average volume of 24 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