shares of intuitive surgical inc isrg inched 032 higher to 20675 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 016 to 383139 and the dow jones industrial average djia falling 042 to 3096782 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains intuitive surgical inc closed 16294 below its 52week high 36969 which the company reached on november 5th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as medtronic plc mdt fell 097 to 9049 stryker corp syk fell 090 to 20202 and becton dickinson  co bdx fell 154 to 24793 trading volume 14 m remained 892884 below its 50day average volume of 23 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