shares of becton dickinson  co bdx rose 139 to 23722 friday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 161 to 404564 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 117 to 3339097 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains becton dickinson  co closed 4007 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 friday as danaher corp dhr rose 137 to 25314 medtronic plc mdt rose 140 to 8341 and dexcom inc dxcm rose 139 to 12292 trading volume 755844 remained 350326 below its 50day average volume of 11 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