shares of aflac inc afl inched 077 higher to 7200 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 070 to 391925 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 056 to 3370410 aflac inc closed 202 short of its 52week high 7402 which the company achieved on january 6th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as cigna corp ci rose 025 to 30379 trading volume 21 m remained 725770 below its 50day average volume of 28 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