shares of perrigo co plc prgo dropped 030 to 3959 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 022 to 412873 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 047 to 3290959 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses perrigo co plc closed 1131 short of its 52week high 5090 which the company reached on september 30th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as daiichi sankyo co ltd dskyf rose 128 to 3017 catalent inc ctlt rose 015 to 10251 and united therapeutics corp uthr rose 281 to 22651 trading volume 722907 remained 643735 below its 50day average volume of 14 m 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