PerkinElmer Inc. stock outperforms competitors despite losses on the day Company Close Updates

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Shares of PerkinElmer Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203769792/composite PKI +2.75% slipped 1.57% to $163.85 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +1.99% falling 0.54% to 4,326.51 and Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA +1.61% falling 0.02% to 34,160.78. This was the stock's sixth consecutive day of losses. PerkinElmer Inc. closed $39.31 short of its 52-week high ($203.16), which the company achieved on December 31st.

The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. /zigman2/quotes/201150432/composite TMO +1.09% fell 1.63% to $553.74, Becton Dickinson & Co. /zigman2/quotes/205527610/composite BDX +0.13% fell 1.06% to $251.19, and Illumina Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203509482/composite ILMN +0.48% fell 2.24% to $324.36. Trading volume (893,175) remained 220,491 below its 50-day average volume of 1.1 M.

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