shares of smiths group plc smin inched down 024 to £1635 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx falling 054 to 746187 smiths group plc closed £172 short of its 52week high £1807 which the company reached on february 16 trading volume 401219 remained 556167 below its 50day average volume of 957386 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