shares of hershey co hsy inched 054 higher to 18213 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 071 to 444808 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 079 to 3534328 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains hershey co closed 011 short of its 52week high 18224 which the company achieved on july 20th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as nestle sa adr nsrgy rose 062 to 12698 mondelez international inc cl a mdlz rose 058 to 6406 and general mills inc gis rose 121 to 6086 trading volume 691805 remained 73163 below its 50day average volume of 764968 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