shares of vertex pharmaceuticals inc vrtx advanced 194 to 34060 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 093 to 433893 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 056 to 3406633 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains vertex pharmaceuticals inc closed 1386 below its 52week high 35446 which the company reached on may 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as abbvie inc abbv fell 033 to 13773 krystal biotech inc krys rose 026 to 12925 and arcturus therapeutics holdings inc arct fell 029 to 2741 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