shares of intuitive surgical inc isrg inched 063 higher to 104552 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 085 to 448070 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 068 to 3481439 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains intuitive surgical inc closed 4149 below its 52week high 108701 which the company reached on september 8th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as medtronic plc mdt rose 082 to 13165 stryker corp syk rose 067 to 27710 and becton dickinson  co bdx rose 047 to 26168 trading volume 530504 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 461691 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