shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx inched 044 higher to 34210 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 069 to 436901 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 043 to 3421212 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 1236 short of its 52week high 35446 which the company reached on may 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as abbvie inc abbv rose 042 to 13831 krystal biotech inc krys rose 083 to 13032 and arcturus therapeutics holdings inc arct rose 478 to 2872 trading volume 986304 remained 226842 below its 50day average volume of 12 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