shares of catalyst pharmaceuticals inc cprx rallied 458 to 617 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 063 to 1559592 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 026 to 3591384 catalyst pharmaceuticals inc closed 043 short of its 52week high 660 which the company reached on october 7th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 009 to 16302 pfizer inc pfe fell 023 to 4364 and abbott laboratories abt rose 004 to 12894 trading volume 841792 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 835655 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