shares of perrigo co plc prgo inched 003 higher to 3585 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 058 to 410060 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 059 to 3340238 perrigo co plc closed 805 short of its 52week high 4390 which the company reached on august 9th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 105 to 15849 procter  gamble co pg rose 048 to 15023 and abbott laboratories abt rose 119 to 10280 trading volume 767227 remained 340552 below its 50day average volume of 11 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