shares of hologic inc holx advanced 154 to 7399 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 016 to 435946 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 026 to 3439072 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak hologic inc closed 1101 short of its 52week high 8500 which the company achieved on february 16th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 074 to 16402 abbott laboratories abt rose 061 to 11946 and thermo fisher scientific inc tmo rose 055 to 57960 trading volume 15 m remained 32829 below its 50day average volume of 16 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