shares of johnson  johnson jnj inched 096 higher to 15920 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 030 to 436380 and the dow jones industrial average djia falling 000 to 3437781 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak johnson  johnson closed 2072 short of its 52week high 17992 which the company reached on august 20th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as roche holding ag part cert rhhvf fell 000 to 38150 merck  co inc mrk fell 080 to 7895 and pfizer inc pfe fell 103 to 4142 trading volume 69 m eclipsed 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