shares of johnson  johnson jnj rallied 260 to 18223 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 097 to 448115 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 042 to 3449651 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains johnson  johnson hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 18021 which the company achieved on march 31st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as roche holding ag part cert rhhvf rose 238 to 42100 merck  co inc mrk rose 149 to 8497 and pfizer inc pfe rose 318 to 5287 trading volume 103 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 81 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