shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst dropped 005 to 34082 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 040 to 429714 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 045 to 3391244 west pharmaceutical services inc closed 13453 short of its 52week high 47535 which the company reached on september 9th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 048 to 16609 medtronic plc mdt rose 040 to 9520 and stryker corp syk rose 065 to 22457 trading volume 232722 remained 172610 below its 50day average volume of 405332 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