shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst rallied 332 to 33641 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 176 to 396028 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 117 to 3224655 west pharmaceutical services inc closed 8759 short of its 52week high 42400 which the company reached on april 7th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as abbott laboratories abt rose 126 to 9903 becton dickinson  co bdx rose 150 to 23800 and baxter international inc bax rose 037 to 3837 trading volume 511036 remained 116692 below its 50day average volume of 627728 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