shares of american water works co awk slid 061 to 16102 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 097 to 453276 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 096 to 3502865 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of losses american water works co closed 2863 short of its 52week high 18965 which the company reached on december 31st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as veolia environnement sa adr veoey rose 036 to 3650 american states water co awr rose 007 to 9187 and california water service group cwt fell 058 to 6161 trading volume 915041 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 749116 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