shares of steris plc ste inched 015 higher to 18528 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 016 to 399105 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 026 to 3304509 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak steris plc closed 7065 short of its 52week high 25593 which the company reached on april 20th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as thermo fisher scientific inc tmo fell 043 to 54840 danaher corp dhr fell 027 to 25011 and becton dickinson  co bdx rose 038 to 24040 trading volume 621670 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 551345 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