shares of johnson  johnson jnj rallied 248 to 16534 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 030 to 396685 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 046 to 3165642 the stocks rise snapped a fourday losing streak johnson  johnson closed 2135 short of its 52week high 18669 which the company achieved on april 25th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as roche holding ag part cert rhhvf fell 387 to 31108 merck  co inc mrk rose 210 to 8715 and pfizer inc pfe rose 310 to 4663 trading volume 75 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 67 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