shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst inched 002 higher to 33910 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 067 to 409119 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 123 to 3239617 west pharmaceutical services inc closed 13625 short of its 52week high 47535 which the company achieved on september 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as johnson  johnson jnj fell 057 to 17292 medtronic plc mdt rose 014 to 9321 and stryker corp syk fell 011 to 21325 trading volume 397597 remained 44702 below its 50day average volume of 442299 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