shares of northrop grumman corp noc inched 070 higher to 46751 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 003 to 413613 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 046 to 3408927 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains northrop grumman corp closed 8876 below its 52week high 55627 which the company achieved on october 28th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as raytheon technologies corp rtx rose 081 to 10137 boeing co ba rose 130 to 21845 and lockheed martin corp lmt fell 008 to 48158 trading volume 12 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 11 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