shares of intuitive surgical inc isrg rallied 424 to 21087 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 183 to 397987 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 140 to 3158128 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak intuitive surgical inc closed 15882 short of its 52week high 36969 which the company reached on november 5th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as medtronic plc mdt rose 106 to 8711 stryker corp syk rose 418 to 21121 and becton dickinson  co bdx rose 274 to 25897 trading volume 17 m remained 174763 below its 50day average volume of 19 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