shares of abbott laboratories abt rallied 171 to 10502 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 122 to 442584 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 126 to 3440806 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains abbott laboratories closed 1067 short of its 52week high 11569 which the company achieved on january 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 134 to 16373 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