shares of unum group unm rose 220 to 4090 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 069 to 389989 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 064 to 3101968 unum group closed 023 short of its 52week high 4113 which the company achieved on september 15th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as aflac inc afl rose 146 to 6037 principal financial group inc pfg rose 055 to 7743 and assurant inc aiz rose 012 to 15501 trading volume 11 m remained 442546 below its 50day average volume of 16 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