shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst advanced 480 to 22594 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 096 to 380680 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 131 to 3282700 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains west pharmaceutical services inc closed 24906 short of its 52week high 47500 which the company achieved on december 27th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 087 to 17298 medtronic plc mdt rose 105 to 8554 and stryker corp syk rose 120 to 21352 trading volume 758648 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 634039 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