shares of johnson  johnson jnj advanced 146 to 15938 friday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 084 to 453843 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 017 to 3458008 johnson  johnson closed 2054 below its 52week high 17992 which the company reached on august 20th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as roche holding ag part cert rhhvf rose 070 to 39625 merck  co inc mrk fell 074 to 7334 and pfizer inc pfe rose 232 to 5427 trading volume 85 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 71 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