shares of dow inc dow inched 070 higher to 6051 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 129 to 416400 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 078 to 3415669 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains dow inc closed 1135 short of its 52week high 7186 which the company reached on april 21st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as linde plc lin rose 442 to 33712 and air products  chemicals inc apd rose 072 to 28507 trading volume 48 m remained 222444 below its 50day average volume of 50 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