shares of west pharmaceutical services inc wst rose 154 to 36764 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 001 to 415452 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 023 to 3389701 west pharmaceutical services inc closed 1016 below its 52week high 37780 which the company reached on april 20th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as abbott laboratories abt rose 782 to 11229 becton dickinson  co bdx rose 207 to 25885 and baxter international inc bax rose 187 to 4362 trading volume 310579 remained 240936 below its 50day average volume of 551515 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