shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst advanced 299 to 21559 friday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 136 to 377055 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 126 to 3240322 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak west pharmaceutical services inc closed 25941 short of its 52week high 47500 which the company reached on december 27th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 045 to 17148 medtronic plc mdt rose 075 to 8465 and stryker corp syk rose 266 to 21098 trading volume 774020 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 623869 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