shares of american water works co awk rose 331 to 15334 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 183 to 397987 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 140 to 3158128 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains american water works co closed 3631 short of 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 291 to 2211 american states water co awr rose 167 to 8379 and california water service group cwt rose 161 to 5880 trading volume 741216 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 689504 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