ashtead group plc aht shares inched down 078 to £5588 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the ftse 100 index ukx rising 008 to 795385 ashtead group plc closed £144 short of its 52week high £5732 which the company reached on february 2 trading volume 596441 remained 339531 below its 50day average volume of 935972 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