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Shares of PerkinElmer Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203769792/composite PKI -0.59% rose 2.55% to $183.59 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +0.08% rising 0.72% to 4,682.85 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA -0.56% rising 0.50% to 36,100.31. This was the stock's fifth consecutive day of gains. PerkinElmer Inc. closed $8.41 short of its 52-week high ($192.00), which the company reached on September 23rd.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Friday, as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. /zigman2/quotes/201150432/composite TMO -1.01% rose 0.60% to $635.25, Becton Dickinson & Co. /zigman2/quotes/205527610/composite BDX -0.41% fell 0.41% to $244.00, and Illumina Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203509482/composite ILMN +1.41% fell 0.44% to $383.45. Trading volume (1.2 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 656,670.
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