shares of pfizer inc pfe inched 059 higher to 5268 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 184 to 417682 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 133 to 3324828 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak pfizer inc closed 903 short of its 52week high 6171 which the company reached on december 20th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 032 to 17715 merck  co inc mrk fell 125 to 9000 and novartis ag adr nvs rose 017 to 8979 trading volume 219 m remained 42 million below its 50day average volume of 261 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