shares of baxter international inc bax rallied 141 to 5953 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 153 to 406736 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 119 to 3215171 baxter international inc closed 3017 short of its 52week high 8970 which the company reached on february 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as thermo fisher scientific inc tmo rose 050 to 56940 medtronic plc mdt rose 209 to 8973 and stryker corp syk rose 441 to 23000 trading volume 24 m remained 729884 below its 50day average volume of 31 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