shares of gilead sciences inc gild dropped 060 to 5797 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 224 to 435786 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 155 to 3406310 the stocks fall snapped a threeday winning streak gilead sciences inc closed 1615 below its 52week high 7412 which the company achieved on december 30th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 092 to 17452 merck  co inc mrk fell 066 to 7812 and abbvie inc abbv rose 011 to 15605 trading volume 138 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 115 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