shares of southern co so rose 158 to 6618 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 165 to 391929 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 106 to 3215540 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains southern co closed 1439 short of its 52week high 8057 which the company achieved on august 19th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy