shares of novavax inc nvax advanced 144 to 775 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 128 to 1250057 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 124 to 3342077 novavax inc closed 6902 below its 52week high 7677 which the company achieved on july 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 022 to 15899 pfizer inc pfe fell 070 to 3675 and merck  co inc mrk fell 114 to 11476 trading volume 36 m remained 24 million below its 50day average volume of 60 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