shares of american water works co awk rallied 173 to 15224 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 036 to 384508 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 023 to 3103768 american water works co closed 3741 below its 52week high 18965 which the company achieved on december 31st the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as veolia environnement sa adr veoey rose 136 to 2424 american states water co awr rose 126 to 8357 and california water service group cwt rose 102 to 5643 trading volume 640600 remained 349063 below its 50day average volume of 989663 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