shares of becton dickinson  co bdx rose 118 to 26191 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 060 to 412979 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 033 to 3378662 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains becton dickinson  co closed 946 short of its 52week high 27137 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as danaher corp dhr fell 252 to 24834 medtronic plc mdt fell 163 to 8349 and dexcom inc dxcm fell 155 to 12219 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