shares of southern co so rose 207 to 6557 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 048 to 396534 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 059 to 3374569 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak southern co closed 1500 short of its 52week high 8057 which the company reached on august 19th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as nextera energy inc nee rose 103 to 8320 dominion energy inc d rose 135 to 5916 and duke energy corp duk rose 133 to 9679 trading volume 52 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 43 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