shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst inched 088 higher to 33185 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 030 to 394872 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 023 to 3210525 west pharmaceutical services inc closed 9215 short of its 52week high 42400 which the company achieved on april 7th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as abbott laboratories abt rose 019 to 9704 becton dickinson  co bdx fell 106 to 23638 and baxter international inc bax fell 266 to 3812 trading volume 438179 remained 190328 below its 50day average volume of 628507 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