shares of nrg energy inc nrg inched 042 higher to 4326 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 071 to 444808 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 079 to 3534328 nrg energy inc closed 118 short of its 52week high 4444 which the company reached on august 6th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 001 to 8396 duke energy corp duk fell 009 to 10771 and southern co so rose 011 to 6645 trading volume 22 m remained 440371 below its 50day average volume of 27 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use