shares of aflac inc afl rose 106 to 7705 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 025 to 450189 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 019 to 3521589 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains aflac inc closed 028 short of its 52week high 7733 which the company reached on august 2nd the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as cigna group ci fell 393 to 28764 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