shares of intuitive surgical inc isrg rallied 159 to 104484 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 121 to 444898 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 148 to 3476482 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains intuitive surgical inc closed 4217 short of its 52week high 108701 which the company reached on september 8th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as medtronic plc mdt rose 184 to 13064 stryker corp syk rose 166 to 27616 and becton dickinson  co bdx fell 116 to 25382 trading volume 568671 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 487062 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