shares of american water works co awk dropped 074 to 14772 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 040 to 455464 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 052 to 3541124 american water works co closed 1487 below its 52week high 16259 which the company reached on february 2nd despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as essential utilities inc wtrg fell 097 to 4268 american states water co awr fell 149 to 8854 and california water service group cwt fell 110 to 5290 trading volume 678632 remained 279628 below its 50day average volume of 958260 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