shares of johnson  johnson jnj advanced 107 to 18020 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 299 to 430017 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 281 to 3406106 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak johnson  johnson closed 649 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 wednesday as roche holding ag part cert rhhvf rose 210 to 36645 merck  co inc mrk rose 163 to 8852 and pfizer inc pfe rose 075 to 4966 trading volume 59 m remained 22 million below its 50day average volume of 81 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