shares of southern co so shed 016 to 6853 monday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 014 to 467029 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 045 to 3606887 southern co closed 061 below its 52week high 6914 which the company achieved on january 7th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as nextera energy inc nee fell 245 to 8429 dominion energy inc d fell 047 to 7983 and duke energy corp duk rose 006 to 10456 trading volume 56 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 44 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