shares of gilead sciences inc gild inched 068 higher to 7724 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 020 to 444682 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 038 to 3428864 gilead sciences inc closed 1250 short of its 52week high 8974 which the company reached on december 13th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 033 to 16281 pfizer inc pfe fell 052 to 3646 and abbott laboratories abt rose 014 to 10737 trading volume 52 m remained 525387 below its 50day average volume of 57 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