Xylem Inc. inventory outperforms market on sturdy buying and selling day

Shares of Xylem Inc.
XYL,
+1.66%
rallied 1.66% to $112.63 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around nice buying and selling session for the inventory market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+0.48%
rising 0.48% to three,965.34 and the Dow Jones Industrial Common
DJIA,
+0.59%
rising 0.59% to 33,745.69. Xylem Inc. closed $17.79 wanting its 52-week excessive ($130.42), which the corporate reached on November twenty second.

The inventory outperformed a few of its rivals Friday, as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
TMO,
+1.01%
rose 1.01% to $535.24, IDEX Corp.
IEX,
+0.90%
rose 0.90% to $233.55, and Graco Inc.
GGG,
+0.33%
rose 0.33% to $69.86. Buying and selling quantity (637,397) remained 373,656 beneath its 50-day common quantity of 1.0 M.