shares of american water works co awk inched 051 higher to 15532 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 141 to 419912 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 098 to 3329178 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains american water works co closed 3433 below its 52week high 18965 which the company reached on december 31st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as veolia environnement sa adr veoey rose 184 to 2319 american states water co awr rose 165 to 8641 and california water service group cwt rose 203 to 6144 trading volume 442933 remained 329602 below its 50day average volume of 772535 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