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Shares of Zoetis Inc. rose 3.6% to $77.73 on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index rising 0.4% to 7,674.37 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 1.0% to 53,277.01.
Zoetis Inc. closed 51.1% below its 52-week high of $159.00, which the company reached on August 21st.
The stock outperformed some of its peers, as Merck & Co. Inc. rose 2.4% to $152.55, IDEXX Laboratories Inc. rose 2.0% to $556.93.
Trading volume totaled 5.0 million, compared to the 50-day average of 6.7 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet