shares of american water works co awk inched 086 higher to 14595 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 399895 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3203690 american water works co closed 4370 short of its 52week high 18965 which the company achieved on december 31st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as veolia environnement sa adr veoey rose 112 to 2431 american states water co awr rose 104 to 8181 and california water service group cwt rose 145 to 5683 trading volume 934341 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 919813 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