shares of steris plc ste inched 044 higher to 20789 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 093 to 433893 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 056 to 3406633 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains steris plc closed 1947 short of its 52week high 22736 which the company reached on august 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as thermo fisher scientific inc tmo rose 106 to 52369 danaher corp dhr rose 114 to 23805 and becton dickinson  co bdx fell 031 to 25071 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