shares of clorox co clx rallied 519 to 13214 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 013 to 375989 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 015 to 3048313 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains clorox co closed 5961 short of its 52week high 19175 which the company reached on july 19th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as reckitt benckiser group plc rbgpf fell 198 to 7354 henkel ag  co kgaa pfd adr henoy fell 013 to 1573 and beiersdorf ag adr bdrfy rose 162 to 2004 trading volume 27 m eclipsed 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