shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx inched 049 higher to 32483 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx remaining mostly unchanged at 410894 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 029 to 3368479 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 036 below its 52week high 32519 which the company achieved on january 31st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as abbvie inc abbv rose 006 to 16138 krystal biotech inc krys rose 193 to 8365 and arcturus therapeutics holdings inc arct rose 814 to 2697 trading volume 649545 remained 529580 below its 50day average volume of 12 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