ashtead group plc aht shares shed 154 to £4919 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 010 to 776295 ashtead group plc closed £1093 short of its 52week high £6012 which the company achieved on march 7 trading volume 561999 remained 433589 below its 50day average volume of 995588 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