shares of steris plc ste inched 022 higher to 22744 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 024 to 456572 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 031 to 3506121 steris plc closed 256 below its 52week high 23000 which the company reached on july 14th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as thermo fisher scientific inc tmo rose 227 to 53555 danaher corp dhr rose 128 to 24388 and becton dickinson  co bdx fell 055 to 25490 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