shares of american water works co awk inched 016 higher to 18088 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 022 to 449619 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 011 to 3540550 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak american water works co closed 436 short of its 52week high 18524 which the company achieved on august 23rd the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as veolia environnement sa adr veoey rose 001 to 3421 american states water co awr fell 026 to 8909 and california water service group cwt rose 002 to 6316 trading volume 500395 remained 187634 below its 50day average volume of 688029 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