shares of waste management inc wm rose 122 to 17481 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 019 to 430520 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 071 to 3415201 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains waste management inc hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 17289 which the company achieved on august 15th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as republic services inc rsg rose 077 to 14712 waste connections inc wcn rose 142 to 14371 and veolia environnement sa adr veoey rose 023 to 2570 trading volume 16 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