shares of gilead sciences inc gild inched 057 higher to 7612 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 067 to 443926 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 093 to 3426142 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains gilead sciences inc closed 1362 short of its 52week high 8974 which the company achieved on december 13th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 055 to 15863 pfizer inc pfe rose 095 to 3602 and abbott laboratories abt rose 045 to 10750 trading volume 35 m remained 22 million below its 50day average volume of 57 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