shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst rallied 226 to 27159 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 105 to 411921 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 002 to 3409296 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains west pharmaceutical services inc closed 15241 short of its 52week high 42400 which the company achieved on april 7th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as abbott laboratories abt rose 115 to 11182 becton dickinson  co bdx rose 077 to 25417 and baxter international inc bax rose 129 to 4628 trading volume 408703 remained 240652 below its 50day average volume of 649355 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