shares of johnson  johnson jnj advanced 240 to 17310 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 090 to 451844 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 116 to 3547313 johnson  johnson closed 794 short of its 52week high 18104 which the company reached on december 14th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as procter  gamble co pg rose 106 to 15692 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