shares of baxter international inc bax dropped 019 to 4250 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 112 to 414558 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 069 to 3305551 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses baxter international inc closed 3458 below its 52week high 7708 which the company achieved on may 25th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as medtronic plc mdt fell 265 to 8713 stryker corp syk fell 420 to 27416 and becton dickinson  co bdx fell 182 to 24648 trading volume 40 m remained 21 million below its 50day average volume of 60 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