shares of medtronic plc mdt advanced 103 to 8537 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 001 to 3183911 and the sp 500 index spx falling 074 to 383060 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains medtronic plc closed 3932 below its 52week high 12469 which the company achieved on october 27th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 088 to 17221 abbott laboratories abt rose 048 to 9842 and stryker corp syk rose 177 to 22859 trading volume 40 m remained 20 million below its 50day average volume of 60 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