shares of bristol myers squibb co bmy inched 040 higher to 7605 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 057 to 429612 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 070 to 3404946 bristol myers squibb co closed 212 below its 52week high 7817 which the company reached on april 21st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 246 to 18601 merck  co inc mrk rose 100 to 8544 and pfizer inc pfe rose 170 to 4895 trading volume 147 m remained 744243 below its 50day average volume of 155 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