shares of baxter international inc bax shed 058 to 3971 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 007 to 404842 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 012 to 3343144 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak baxter international inc closed 4591 short of its 52week high 8562 which the company reached on march 7th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as medtronic plc mdt fell 177 to 8193 stryker corp syk fell 152 to 26740 and becton dickinson  co bdx fell 042 to 23622 trading volume 43 m remained 18 million below its 50day average volume of 62 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