shares of becton dickinson  co bdx inched 084 higher to 25222 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 146 to 407660 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 109 to 3408604 becton dickinson  co closed 2840 short of its 52week high 28062 which the company reached on february 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as danaher corp dhr rose 062 to