shares of idex corp iex advanced 179 to 23103 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 144 to 410931 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 126 to 3327415 this was the stocks sixth consecutive day of gains idex corp closed 1520 below its 52week high 24623 which the company achieved on december 13th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as otis worldwide corp otis rose 153 to 8440 mettlertoledo international inc mtd rose 203 to 153021 and ametek inc ame rose 175 to 14533 trading volume 270620 remained 115474 below its 50day average volume of 386094 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