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Shares of PerkinElmer Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203769792/composite PKI +2.67% slipped 0.06% to $187.39 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +0.25% falling 0.26% to 4,688.67 and Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA +0.08% falling 0.58% to 35,931.05. PerkinElmer Inc. closed $4.61 below its 52-week high ($192.00), which the company reached on September 23rd.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. /zigman2/quotes/201150432/composite TMO -0.65% fell 0.65% to $637.30, Becton Dickinson & Co. /zigman2/quotes/205527610/composite BDX +1.08% rose 2.36% to $249.86, and Illumina Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203509482/composite ILMN +0.59% fell 0.23% to $377.63. Trading volume (701,343) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 671,268.
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