shares of prudential financial inc pru inched 098 higher to 8785 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 001 to 415452 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 023 to 3389701 prudential financial inc closed 3469 below its 52week high 12254 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as aegon nv adr aeg rose 111 to 455 genworth financial inc cl a gnw rose 032 to 620 and lincoln national corp lnc rose 266 to 2196 trading volume 20 m remained 644214 below its 50day average volume of 27 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