shares of juniper networks inc jnpr inched 059 higher to 3055 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 422102 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 047 to 3306157 juniper networks inc closed 398 short of its 52week high 3453 which the company reached on april 3rd the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as cisco systems inc csco rose 014 to 4974 vmware inc vmw fell 172 to 13394 and fortinet inc ftnt rose 045 to 6864 trading volume 38 m remained 196693 below its 50day average volume of 40 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