shares of ametek inc ame slipped 223 to 11882 thursday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 238 to 401782 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 194 to 3227279 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses ametek inc closed 2925 below its 52week high 14807 which the company achieved on december 29th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as danaher corp dhr fell 258 to 25876 general electric co ge fell 308 to 7478 and roper technologies inc rop fell 283 to 40623true trading volume 12 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 11 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