shares of medtronic plc mdt slid 122 to 8923 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 059 to 395990 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 015 to 3187484 medtronic plc closed 4666 below its 52week high 13589 which the company achieved on september 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 057 to 17071 abbott laboratories abt fell 155 to 10823 and stryker corp syk rose 038 to 19805 trading volume 62 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 59 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