shares of becton dickinson  co bdx inched 074 higher to 25618 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 040 to 382414 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 003 to 3313637 becton dickinson  co closed 2111 below its 52week high 27729 which the company reached on april 8th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as danaher corp dhr fell 119 to 26227 medtronic plc mdt rose 069 to 7826 and dexcom inc dxcm rose 132 to 11473 trading volume 10 m remained 551207 below its 50day average volume of 16 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