shares of novavax inc nvax advanced 609 to 767 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 027 to 3366502 and the nasdaq composite index comp falling 129 to 1310489 novavax inc closed 6910 short of its 52week high 7677 which the company achieved on july 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 021 to 15852 pfizer inc pfe rose 136 to 3889 and merck  co inc mrk fell 127 to 10861 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