shares of american water works co awk inched 084 higher to 15171 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 114 to 413729 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 111 to 3424593 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains american water works co closed 2216 below its 52week high 17387 which the company achieved on april 8th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as essential utilities inc wtrg rose 070 to 4598 american states water co awr rose 142 to 9489 and california water service group cwt rose 145 to 6092 trading volume 745878 remained 51798 below its 50day average volume of 797676 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