shares of pfizer inc pfe inched 077 higher to 5259 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 143 to 452016 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 102 to 3470794 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak pfizer inc closed 912 below its 52week high 6171 which the company achieved on december 20th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 052 to 17524 merck  co inc mrk rose 085 to 8041 and novartis ag adr nvs rose 127 to 8664 trading volume 215 m remained 124 million below its 50day average volume of 339 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