shares of becton dickinson  co bdx inched 028 higher to 28359 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 064 to 453741 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 067 to 3528272 becton dickinson  co closed 373 short of its 52week high 28732 which the company achieved on july 24th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as danaher corp dhr fell 362 to 25527 medtronic plc mdt fell 209 to 8851 and dexcom inc dxcm fell 102 to 12936 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