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Shares of PerkinElmer Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203769792/composite PKI +2.22% slipped 0.90% to $175.14 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 +0.01% falling 1.10% to 4,482.73 and Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA +0.03% falling 0.89% to 34,715.39. PerkinElmer Inc. closed $28.02 short of its 52-week high ($203.16), which the company reached 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 +0.80% fell 0.88% to $588.16, Becton Dickinson & Co. /zigman2/quotes/205527610/composite BDX +0.46% rose 0.04% to $263.97, and Illumina Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203509482/composite ILMN +1.14% fell 1.02% to $380.44. Trading volume (809,461) remained 283,691 below its 50-day average volume of 1.1 M.
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