shares of johnson  johnson jnj inched 086 higher to 16636 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 197 to 371904 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 188 to 2968374 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak johnson  johnson closed 2033 below its 52week high 18669 which the company reached on april 25th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as roche holding ag part cert rhhvf rose 570 to 33100 merck  co inc mrk rose 110 to 8678 and pfizer inc pfe rose 077 to 4443 trading volume 86 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 71 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