shares of becton dickinson  co bdx advanced 403 to 23469 monday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 039 to 394994 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 013 to 3370028 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains becton dickinson  co closed 4260 short of its 52week high 27729 which the company reached on april 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as thermo fisher scientific inc tmo rose 019 to 53628 intuitive surgical inc isrg fell 067 to 26035 and baxter international inc bax rose 151 to 5583 trading volume 24 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 15 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