shares of martin marietta materials inc mlm inched 033 higher to 35415 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 087 to 399173 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 017 to 3359292 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak martin marietta materials inc closed 9231 short of its 52week high 44646 which the company reached on january 4th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as crh plc adr crh rose 102 to 3972 vulcan materials co vmc rose 042 to 17590 and occidental petroleum corp oxy rose 157 to 7443 trading volume 324456 remained 85280 below its 50day average volume of 409736 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