shares of western digital corp wdc rose 476 to 3874 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 094 to 419805 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 034 to 3353591 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains western digital corp closed 2426 short of its 52week high 6300 which the company achieved on june 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as seagate technology holdings plc stx rose 263 to 6275 and netapp inc ntap rose 173 to 6654 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