shares of baxter international inc bax inched 011 higher to 7426 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great 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 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses baxter international inc closed 1544 short of its 52week high 8970 which the company reached on february 9th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as thermo fisher scientific inc tmo rose 250 to 57010 medtronic plc mdt rose 074 to 9850 and stryker corp syk rose 280 to 23439 trading volume 22 m remained 13 million below its 50day average volume of 35 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