shares of american electric power co inc aep inched 056 higher to 8580 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 020 to 444682 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 038 to 3428864 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains american electric power co inc closed 1980 short of its 52week high 10560 which the company achieved on september 12th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 077 to 7495 duke energy corp duk rose 098 to 9161 and southern co so rose 157 to 7168 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