shares of medtronic plc mdt rallied 123 to 12220 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 074 to 451963 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 056 to 3545731 medtronic plc closed 1369 short of its 52week high 13589 which the company reached on september 9th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 234 to 16387 abbott laboratories abt rose 216 to 11934 and stryker corp syk rose 336 to 27086 trading volume 50 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 41 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