shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst rose 176 to 26411 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 119 to 401981 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 076 to 3362956 this was the stocks sixth consecutive day of gains west pharmaceutical services inc closed 15989 short of its 52week high 42400 which the company achieved on april 7th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as abbott laboratories abt rose 105 to 11401 becton dickinson  co bdx fell 167 to 24958 and baxter international inc bax rose 287 to 4514 trading volume 597748 remained 71037 below its 50day average volume of 668785 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