shares of novavax inc nvax shed 101 to 978 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 148 to 1189179 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 111 to 3424593 novavax inc closed 8122 below its 52week high 9100 which the company achieved on march 1st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 037 to 16275 pfizer inc pfe rose 025 to 4399 and merck  co inc mrk rose 090 to 10955 trading volume 44 m remained 31 million below its 50day average volume of 76 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