shares of pentair plc pnr inched 080 higher to 5301 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 060 to 412979 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 033 to 3378662 pentair plc closed 784 short of its 52week high 6085 which the company reached on february 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as dover corp dov fell 022 to 14722 ingersoll rand inc ir fell 045 to 5536 and xylem inc xyl rose 026 to 10401 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