shares of american water works co awk inched 063 higher to 15551 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 003 to 3374384 and the sp 500 index spx falling 002 to 401622 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains american water works co closed 1836 below its 52week high 17387 which the company achieved on april 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as essential utilities inc wtrg rose 013 to 4692 american states water co awr fell 014 to 9610 and california water service group cwt rose 061 to 6273 trading volume 847965 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 736680 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