shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst inched 095 higher to 24128 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 143 to 399056 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 158 to 3400504 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains west pharmaceutical services inc closed 23372 below its 52week high 47500 which the company reached on december 27th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as abbott laboratories abt rose 184 to 10949 becton dickinson  co bdx rose 261 to 25406 and baxter international inc bax rose 048 to 5263 trading volume 462391 remained 346567 below its 50day average volume of 808958 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