shares of stryker corp syk slid 087 to 19572 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 092 to 381880 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 062 to 3098133 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses stryker corp closed 8544 below its 52week high 28116 which the company reached on september 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as medtronic plc