shares of novavax inc nvax shed 291 to 934 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 115 to 1391896 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 025 to 3434743 novavax inc closed 6430 below its 52week high 7364 which the company reached on july 13th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 035 to 15808 pfizer inc pfe fell 008 to 3599 and merck  co inc mrk fell 113 to 10747 trading volume 54 m remained 11 million below its 50day average volume of 66 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