shares of western digital corp wdc inched 057 higher to 5602 friday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 014 to 469796 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 075 to 3560198 the stocks rise snapped a fourday losing streak western digital corp closed 2217 short of its 52week high 7819 which the company reached on june 4th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as hp inc hpq rose 013 to 3145 seagate technology holdings plc stx fell 046 to 10078 and netapp inc ntap fell 151 to 8600 trading volume 45 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 34 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