Steris PLC stock falls Tuesday, underperforms market

Shares of Steris PLC STE slid 0.98% to $204.82 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.31% to 33,733.96 and the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 0.07% to 4,016.95. The stock’s fall snapped a three-day winning streak. Steris PLC closed $51.11 below its 52-week high ($255.93), which the company achieved on April 20th.

Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Tuesday, as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO fell…