shares of novavax inc nvax inched 038 higher to 800 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 061 to 1414456 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 008 to 3543807 novavax inc closed 5524 short of its 52week high 6324 which the company achieved on august 4th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 077 to 17239 pfizer inc pfe fell 120 to 3706 and merck  co inc mrk fell 116 to 10753 trading volume 40 m remained 17 million below its 50day average volume of 58 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