shares of baxter international inc bax shed 276 to 5466 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 041 to 390819 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 055 to 3114530 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses baxter international inc closed 3504 short of its 52week high 8970 which the company achieved on february 9th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as thermo fisher scientific inc tmo rose 029 to 54515 medtronic plc mdt fell 115 to 8620 and stryker corp syk fell 051 to 20273 trading volume 31 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 30 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