shares of stanley black  decker inc swk rose 168 to 8314 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 094 to 419805 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 034 to 3353591 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains stanley black  decker inc closed 3886 short of its 52week high 12200 which the company reached on may 26th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as danaher corp dhr rose 052 to 22643 and illinois tool works inc itw fell 074 to 22766 trading volume 15 m remained 244606 below its 50day average volume of 17 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