shares of bristol myers squibb co bmy inched 016 higher to 6930 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 161 to 404564 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 117 to 3339097 bristol myers squibb co closed 1214 short of its 52week high 8144 which the company achieved on december 1st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors friday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 103 to 15402 pfizer inc pfe rose 130 to 4115 and abbott laboratories abt rose 177 to 10445 trading volume 65 m remained 14 million below its 50day average volume of 79 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