shares of american water works co awk inched 009 higher to 14984 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 033 to 415132 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 030 to 3398718 american water works co closed 1932 short of its 52week high 16916 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as essential utilities inc wtrg rose 090 to 4358 american states water co awr fell 064 to 9063 and california water service group cwt fell 047 to 5880 trading volume 661765 remained 702015 below its 50day average volume of 14 m 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