shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx advanced 377 to 26835 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 186 to 397375 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 198 to 3188024 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 2440 short of its 52week high 29275 which the company achieved on april 14th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 204 to 17944 merck  co inc mrk rose 030 to 9383 and abbvie inc abbv fell 197 to 14803 trading volume 17 m remained 38277 below its 50day average volume of 17 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