shares of medtronic plc mdt sank 025 to 7947 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 058 to 410060 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 059 to 3340238 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses medtronic plc closed 3484 short of its 52week high 11431 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 105 to 15849 danaher corp dhr fell 044 to 24898 and abbott laboratories abt rose 119 to 10280 trading volume 45 m remained 16 million below its 50day average volume of 61 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