shares of baxter international inc bax inched 055 higher to 4388 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 189 to 397261 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 100 to 3337549 the stocks rise snapped a sixday losing streak baxter international inc closed 4582 short of its 52week high 8970 which the company reached on february 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as medtronic plc mdt rose 175 to 8091 stryker corp syk rose 115 to 25622 and becton dickinson  co bdx fell 006 to 25381 trading volume 92 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 54 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